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January 16, 2016

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Tough Times for the Tree of Life on Coral Reefs

Jan. 12, 2016 — Marine scientists are calling for a re-think of how marine protected areas are planned and coordinated, following a global assessment of the conservation of tropical corals ... read more

Pinpointing Locations Within Three Feet

Jan. 5, 2016 — When firefighters rush into a burning building, it is imperative that they and their operations team know their precise locations at all times. Even with global positioning ... read more

Tools for Protecting Drinking Water

Jan. 5, 2016 — We place high demands on the quality of our drinking water. If pathogens or toxic substances found their way into the piping system, many people could become infected or ... read more

Let Go My Info: People Are Info-Egoists When It Comes to Their Privacy

Dec. 15, 2015 — People are much more concerned about sharing their own private information with third-party app developers than they are about revealing their friends' data, according to ... read more

WiFi Signals Can Be Exploited to Detect Attackers

Dec. 18, 2015 — Physical attacks on devices connected to the Internet can be detected by analysing WiFi signals, computer scientists ... read more

How Law Enforcement Leaders Feel About Police Wearing Body Cameras

Dec. 14, 2015 — Several recent high-profile incidents involving police use of deadly force have resulted in increased scrutiny of officer behavior and police-community relations. While the use of body-worn cameras ... read more

Novel Intelligent Transportation System for Personalized Reliable Driving Routes

Dec. 10, 2015 — Researchers have developed a novel intelligent transportation system, utilizing integrated algorithm for real-time journey time ... read more

Long Term Effect of Natural Gas Leakage Discovered

Dec. 3, 2015 — As natural gas production increases around the nation, new research shows that it can have a similar impact on climate change as coal if it's allowed to leak while producing ... read more

Virginia Tech Shooting Has Lessons for Strengthening College Mental Health Services

Nov. 10, 2015 — As the nation reels from another mass shooting on a college campus, analysis of the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech University highlights the need for ... read more

Exploiting Renewable Energy While Allowing for Protecting Biodiversity

Oct. 29, 2015 — Global expansion of bioenergy possesses serious threats to biodiversity, whereas solar energy could have potential for power provision with limited impacts on biodiversity, say ... read more

European Employers Can Check Workers' Personal Messages

Why Egypt And India Are Banning Facebook's Free Internet Service

If You're Registered To Vote, Your Data May Have Been Breached

Five Memorable Internet Villains from 2015

Learning from the Past: What Yesterday's Media Can Tell Us About the Times

Dec. 17, 2015 — If you want to get a real feel for what was happening during a certain period in history, how people really felt about the issues of the day, take a look at the media ... read more

Exploring the Mind of a Cyberterrorist

Dec. 16, 2015 — A new study is delving into an aspect of cybersecurity rarely explored before now: the human ... read more

When Apps Talk Behind Your Back

Dec. 3, 2015 — Almost 9 percent of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users' security and privacy, according to a new study. Researchers are now developing a ... read more

How 'Deviant' Messages Flood Social Media

Nov. 18, 2015 — From terrorist propaganda distributed by organizations such as ISIS, to political activism, diverse voices now use social media as their major public platform. Organizations deploy bots — virtual, ... read more

Study Cites Gap Between Theory and Practice in Natural Resource Management

Nov. 11, 2015 — Natural resource agencies have embraced an approach known as adaptive management to adjust and refine their management plans in the face of uncertainties. But a study finds agencies often apply ... read more

Researchers Develop a New Tool to Guide Recovery from Disasters

Nov. 6, 2015 — From cyclones that knocked out swaths of the Indian Railways Network to the winter storms that brought the MBTA system to its knees, an urgent need exists for systematic strategies that speed the ... read more

Guidelines on Sharing Individual Genomic Research Findings With Family

Oct. 28, 2015 — The first consensus guidelines on how researchers should share genomic findings in research on adults and children with other family members has now been published. The recommendations offer ... read more

In the French Suburbs, Big Brother Is Watching You

Oct. 26, 2015 — Video surveillance, police presence and walls that stop people from socializing in the streets. In France this is reality for the residents of suburbs that are upgraded. New research shows that the ... read more

Better Business Is Linked Up

Oct. 26, 2015 — LinkedIn users are well acquainted with and fairly happy with the technological performance of the network, but have mixed responses to its social benefits, suggests a new ... read more

Using Patients' Trail of Digital Crumbs for Public Health Surveillance

Oct. 21, 2015 — Data is ubiquitous. In the area of heath, so-called Novel Data Streams (NDS) are very appealing to public health surveillance officials due to their ease of collection. A new paper evaluates the ... read more

Smart Car Cyberattack Warning: Flaws Found in Security Systems

Oct. 20, 2015 — How Australia acts today will determine the security and safety of driverless cars, autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport systems in the future, with academics warning there is a risk of ... read more

Ocean Protection Gaining Momentum, but Still Lags Progress Made on Land

Oct. 15, 2015 — Extraordinary progress in the past decade has brought 1.6 percent of the world's ocean to a category of 'strongly protected,' researchers say in a new analysis, but the accomplishments ... read more

New Emergency Alert Technology Could Fine-Tune Warnings for Smartphones

Oct. 7, 2015 — In support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), researchers have developed a concept for a more accurate method of delivering certain types of messages that could even warn users to avoid ... read more

Theoretical Computer Science Provides Answers to Data Privacy Problem

Oct. 7, 2015 — The promise of big data lies in researchers' ability to mine massive datasets for insights that can save lives, improve services and inform our understanding of the world.These data may be ... read more

Fraudulent Views of Videos Impact Advertising Industry and Society Widely

Oct. 5, 2015 — Researchers have reached striking results in their recently published paper Understanding the detection of fake view fraud in Video Content Portals. For the first time, it has been demonstrated that ... read more

Identifying Problems With National Identifiers

Sep. 29, 2015 — A team of researchers in two experiments was able to decrypt more than 23,000 RRNs using both computation and logical reasoning. The findings suggest that, while such identifiers are encrypted to ... read more

New Sports Technology Provides a GPS Alternative

Sep. 23, 2015 — When it comes to recording accurate performance data for elite athletes, GPS technology can't keep up, a researcher claims. Instead researchers have developed SABEL Sense, an alternative to GPS ... read more

A Lifeline for Sumatran Rhinos

Sep. 17, 2015 — The Sumatran rhino -- one of the most critically endangered mammals on the planet -- may have just received a lifeline. A new scientific publication applies an enhanced population survey technique to ... read more

Criminals Acquire Guns Through Social Connections, Study Shows

Sep. 16, 2015 — Criminals are far more likely to acquire guns from family and acquaintances than by theft, according to new research. The findings suggest that targeting by law enforcement of the intermediaries in ... read more

Watch Out: If You've Got a Smart Watch, Hackers Could Get Your Data

Sep. 10, 2015 — Using a homegrown app on a Samsung Gear Live smart watch, researchers were able to guess what a user was typing through data 'leaks' produced by the motion sensors on smart watches. The ... read more

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