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• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Drought Research
  Geography
  Sustainability
  Endangered Plants
  Agriculture and Food
   
  

  Monarch Butterflies Numbers Down Again

  March 13, 2013 — Bad news again for the Monarch butterfly: Drought conditions and historic wildfires the past few years continue to decrease their numbers as they wing across Texas this spring. Worse news: milkweed ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Computer Science
  Computer Programming
  Technology
  Distributed Computing
  Electronics
   

  Signal Processing: Look-Up Tables to Shoulder the Processing Load

  March 13, 2013 — Computing tasks for signal processing could be performed more quickly with less power by using look-up ... > full story
• Video Games
  Mental Health Research
  Math Puzzles
  Psychology
  Computer Graphics
  Technology
   
  

  Seniors Who Play Video Games Report Better Sense of Emotional Well-Being

  March 5, 2013 — New research finds that older adults who play video games report higher levels of emotional ... > full story
• Math Puzzles
  Mathematics
  Albert Einstein
  Statistics
  Mathematical Modeling
  Computer Modeling
   

  Fermat's Last Theorem and More Can Be Proved More Simply

  March 4, 2013 — Mathematicians have shown Fermat's Last Theorem can be proved using only a small portion of Grothendieck's work. Specifically, the theorem can be justified using "finite order ... > full story
• Quantum Computers
  Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Quantum Computing
  Satellites
  Encryption
   

  Space Race Underway to Create Quantum Satellite

  February 28, 2013 — A new article describes how a quantum space race is under way to create the world's first global quantum-communication ... > full story
• Video Games
  Intelligence
  Psychology
  Brain Injury
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
   

  Authors: Develop Digital Games to Improve Brain Function and Well-Being

  February 27, 2013 — Neuroscientists should help to develop compelling digital games that boost brain function and improve well-being, say two professors specializing in the ... > full story
• New Species
  Nature
  Extinction
  Mating and Breeding
  Endangered Animals
  Life Sciences
   
  

  New Scorpion Discovery Near Metropolitan Tucson, Arizona

  February 19, 2013 — Zoologists have discovered a new species of Sky Island scorpion from the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, less than 10 miles from metropolitan Tucson. Amazingly, the discovery was made by a ... > full story
• Hacking
  Encryption
  Information Technology
  Electricity
  Energy Technology
  Physics
   
  

  Quantum Cryptography Put to Work for Electric Grid Security

  February 14, 2013 — Quantum cryptography researchers completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum ... > full story
• Math Puzzles
  Internet
  Hacking
  Software
  Computer Programming
  Communications
   

  Largest Known Prime Number Discovered; Has 17,425,170 Digits

  February 13, 2013 — On Jan. 25, the largest known prime number, 2^57,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 ... > full story
• Energy Policy
  Educational Policy
  Land Management
  Government Regulation
  Economics
  Transportation Issues
   

  Innovation, Patenting Fuels Economy

  February 8, 2013 — The U.S. patenting rate is higher than ever since the Industrial Revolution, according to a new report. Those cities that saw high patent levels within the last thirty years also yielded the largest ... > full story

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