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Brain waves can be used to detect potentially harmful personal information
Several research groups have recently showcased systems that use EEG to authenticate users with very high accuracy.
Credit: © Christiaan Colen/ Flickr
Cyber security and authentication...
Different brain atrophy patterns may explain variability in Alzheimers disease symptoms
Mathematical modeling of brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease and others at risk for the disorder has allowed the identification of three atrophy...
Food-poisoning bacteria may be behind Crohn’s disease
People who retain a particular bacterium in their gut after a bout of food poisoning may be at an increased risk of developing Crohn's...
Using satellite images to better target vaccination
Composite image of the Earth at night assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. Population estimates based on similar satellite data can help improve vaccination campaigns. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC)
Satellite images that capture short-term changes in population size in communities in the developing world can help vaccination campaigns achieve more complete coverage to...
Shale gas, not EPA rules, has pushed decline in coal-generated electricity, study confirms
Data shows benchmark gas prices ('Henry Hub' prices) in the past four years to be cheaper than coal from Appalachia for over 88% of...
Breast milk protein safely reduces hospital infections in preemies
Responding to a call from the American Academy of Pediatrics to reduce hospital-acquired infections in neonatal intensive care units across the country, researchers from...
New species of Jurassic reptile identified from skeletal remains on display in Bristol
Jonathan Hanson with the ichthyosaur skeleton at the School of Earth Sciences.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Bristol
A new species of British ichthyosaur has...
World’s Biggest Radio Ear
Credit: SETI Institute
It’s now the biggest single-dish radio telescope on Earth. Settled down in the bumpy karst of China’s Guizhou province, about 1200 miles southwest...
Ancient Britons’ teeth reveal people were ‘highly mobile’ 4,000 years ago
Archaeologists have created a new database from the teeth of prehistoric humans found at ancient burial sites in Britain and Ireland that tell us...
American workers prefer set work schedules, but would take wage cuts to work from...
Affordable child care and flexible work schedules have all been topics of debates in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.Yet, according to a new study...
Turning brewery wastewater into battery power
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based...
