New 2FA system asks you to take a photo
Scientists have created a new two-factor authentication (2FA) system that requires users to take a photo of a personal object.
Event Horizon Telescope to take first picture of black hole
Scientists are hopeful that a very-long-baseline interferometry telescope array will be able to deliver the first image of a black hole, the BBC reported.
Scientists turning dragonflies into genetically-engineered drones
Draper and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have begun work on creating cybernetic insects using genetic engineering.
Titled DragonflEye, the project involves using optogenetics and miniature electronics to turn small...
Scientists develop groundbreaking new Wi-Fi – three-times faster, double the distance
Scientists at MIT have developed a new wireless technology that can triple Wi-Fi data speeds.
The majority of people on Earth people will face severe water shortages within a generation or two if pollution and waste continues unabated, scientists warned at a conference in Bonn Friday.
"This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we believe entirely avoidable," read a document...
Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate, officials said Thursday.
Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi set a three-day deadline to draft a plan...
Creating a "superbrain" of connected minds, scientists on Thursday said they had enabled a rat to help a fellow rodent while the animals were a continent apart but connected through brain electrodes.
With electrodes imbedded in its cortex, a rat in a research institute in Natal, Brazil sent...
From AFP:
Twenty percent of scientists admit to using performance-enhancing prescription drugs for non-medical reasons, according to a survey released on Wednesday by Nature, Britain’s top science journal.
The overwhelming majority of these med-taking brainiacs said they indulged in order to...
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Al they can do is to watch videos all day long.