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Just Give Me Some Privacy — Anonymous Wikipedia Editors and Tor Users Explain Why...
Drexel researchers took a look at internet users who strive to protect their privacy while working on collaborative projects, like Wikipedia. One of the...
Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters
The cosmic microwave background over the whole sky, with the unusual 'Cold Spot' feature circled at the lower right. Credit: Image courtesy of University of...
How this Martian moon became the ‘Death Star’
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated for the first time how an asteroid or comet could have caused the mega crater on Phobos...
Breakthrough opens door to study hallucinations scientifically
Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering migraines. Credit: Flickr/Guy...
Soft robots that mimic human muscles
Credit: Marc Delachaux/2016 EPFL
Robots are usually expected to be rigid, fast and efficient. But researchers at EPFL's Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) have turned that...
Vitamins A and C help erase cell memory
Image Credit: Flickr/Ginny
Vitamins A and C aren’t just good for your health, they affect your DNA too. Researchers at the Babraham Institute and their...
Mapping free-fall styles of solid objects within fluids
Four different modes for the way a plate free falls within a fluid.Credit: Yan Wang
By carefully observing scenes as simple as leaves falling from...
Calcium supplements may damage the heart
Image Credit: Flickr/kevinshine
After analyzing 10 years of medical tests on more than 2,700 people in a federally funded heart disease study, researchers at Johns...
The Milky Way’s Ancient Heart
This image, captured with the VISTA infrared survey telescope, as part of the Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO public survey, shows the...
Marconi inspires Rice University design for 1-terabit wireless
This silicon-germanium chip converts a digital trigger to a 5-picosecond pulse of radiation with a frequency spectrum exceeding 1 terahertz. The chip supports a...
For smartphone-dependent world, Samsung troubles hit hard
Yes, you heard that right. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: "power down and stop using...
