That’s why EFF joined the nearly 150 privacy and human rights organizations, technology companies and trade associations, and individual security and policy experts who sent a letter...
Lead researcher, UNSW Associate Professor Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, said his team had successfully realised a new control metho...
They gobble up algae that could smother the seagrass, keeping the habitat clean and healthy. Our results show that small marine invertebrates are really important, said Pamela Reynol...
If this voltage is generated by sunlight in a solar cell, then you could store solar energy by generating hydrogen gas. New photocathode with several advantages Under the Light2Hydr...
Credit: Katrina Davis An end to poaching will benefit ocean conservation and fishing communities worldwide, an Australian-led scientific study shows. Protecting both the world’s oce...
This species faces a high risk of extinction due to its isolation and tiny population size - it could potentially become the first ape species to be wiped out by human activity. Dr S...
Sea level change between 1993 and 2008. Credit: NASA/JPL There are about 330 million cubic miles of water in the world oceans today, 97% of all the water on the planet. The level of...
English Channel to host wind farm by Daniel J. Graeber Dusseldorf, Germany (UPI) May 18, 2015 German energy company E.ON said Monday it’s continuing its legacy as the larges...
María Elena South: Mars on Earth in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The results are presented in the paper, Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid Atacama Des...
The device brings researchers closer to producing silicon photonic chips that compute and shuttle data with light instead of electrons. Light is the fastest thing you can use to tran...
[Announcements] Posted Apr 10, 2015 11:38 UTC (Fri) by corbet As was discussed in this LWN article, the X.Org Foundation recently held an election to choose four board members and d...
The turtle, which is marked as an endangered species, was struck by a boat propeller while swimming in its natural habitat. The accident shattered the animal’s upper and lower jaw, l...
But Nature has its own methods for the removal and long-term storage of carbon, including the world’s river systems, which transport decaying organic material and eroded rock from la...
Light propagating in a glass fiber can be halted and reemitted later on demand via its interaction with cold cesium atoms in the vicinity of an elongated area. This device provides a...
Although it is thought to be mostly made up of rocky material, the moon is wrapped in a thick layer of water – some frozen to form an icy crust, some potentially pooled in shallow un...
Internal waves have long been recognized as essential components of the ocean’s nutrient cycle, and key to how oceans will store and distribute additional heat brought on by global w...
Among the various types of ocean energy technologies, tidal and wave power are those poised to provide the most significant contribution to the European energy system Credit: © mimad...
Such simulations could revolutionize chemistry, biology and material science, but the development of quantum computers has been limited by the ability to increase the number of quant...
The LHC Magnet Facility, which is used to train engineers and technicians, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin The world’s largest particle smasher re...
Green plants rely on two pigments, chlorophylls a and b, to absorb the energy in sunlight. But the formyl group linked to the third carbon in chlorophyll d and at the second carbon i...
Engineers have combined innovative optical technology with nanocomposite thin-films to create a new type of sensor that is inexpensive, fast, highly sensitive and able to detect and ...
This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. If you don’t have HTTPS Everywhere installed, you can get it here. HTTPS Everywhere is a browser ext...
The car drove itself 99 percent of the time, Delphi said Thursday. The person sitting in the car’s driver seat intervened once when traffic was weaving around in a construction zone,...
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In this article, I will use the terms Linux, kernel or Linux kernel interchangeably to mean the same thing. Folks who argue that Linux is not an operating system are operating system...