Researchers reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines
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Sep 13, 2006 |
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In a paper published on the Web today, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. ...
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New theory (and old equations) may explain causes of ship-sinking freak waves
Sep 13, 2006 |
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On a stormy April day in 1995, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was sailing in the North Atlantic when the ocean liner dipped into a "hole in the sea." Out of the darkness, a towering 95-foot wave threatened to crash ...
General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test -- Einstein at least 99.95 percent right
Sep 13, 2006 |
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An international research team led by Prof. Michael Kramer of the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, has used three years of observations of the "double pulsar", a unique pair of natural stellar clocks ...
Brown engineers build a better battery -- with plastic
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery. ...
Using microbes to fuel the US hydrogen economy
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Sep 13, 2006 |
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"If the U.S. is to have a future hydrogen-based economy, we'll need a way to generate abundant quantities of hydrogen safely and economically," said Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, a biologist at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...
Scientists Unravel Mystery of People with No Fingerprints
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have succeeded in unraveling the genetic basis of two rare congenital diseases in which afflicted persons have no fingerprints. The results will be published in the ...
Astronomers trace the evolution of the first galaxies in the universe
Sep 13, 2006 |
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A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago. These observations of the earliest stages in the evolution ...
Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Changes in the Sun's brightness over the past millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according to a review of existing results and new calculations performed by researchers in the United ...
Study Shows Motion of Earth's Plates Consistent for 40 Million Years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2006 |
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A recent study at the University of Missouri-Columbia may impact the way scientists look at history. The study, which examined the relationship between plate tectonics (movement of the broken pieces of Earth's rigid outer ...
Black-Bone Silky Fowl: An odd bird with meat to crow about
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Sep 13, 2006 |
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Food scientists from the Peoples' Republic of China report a biochemical explanation for the Black-Bone Silky Fowl's 1,000-year-old reputation as a marvel of traditional Chinese medicine. The study is scheduled ...
Compact Muon Solenoid magnet reaches full field
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Scientists of the U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Science's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and collaborators of the US/CMS project have joined colleagues from around the world in announcing that ...
Researchers develop selective sensors based on carbon nanotubes
Sep 13, 2006 |
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A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola Inc., has developed sensors based on carbon nanotubes, microscopically small structures that posses excellent electronic ...
Study: Can hearing voices be a good thing?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 13, 2006 |
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British psychologists have launched a study to determine why some people who hear voices consider it a good experience, while others find it distressing.
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Planned Flight Path
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2006 |
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NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which it will scrutinize the planet.
NASA Sees Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2006 |
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NASA data shows that Arctic perennial sea ice, which normally survives the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrunk abruptly by 14 percent between 2004 and 2005. According to researchers, the loss of perennial ice ...
