Women are more successful at crowdfunding than men, says ESMT Berlin study
Women have higher success rates at crowdfunding scientific projects than men, according to new research from ESMT Berlin. The study ...
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Analysis of billions of Wikipedia searches reveals biodiversity secrets
This finding, publishing March 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, suggests new ways to monitor changes in the world's ...
Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not
As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a ...
How bacteria can help prevent coal ash spills
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses bacteria to produce "biocement" in coal ash ponds, ...
‘Hooking’ digital lives through cognitive science
SFU adjunct professor Luc Beaudoin has created strategies for better sleep and improving memory function. His latest venture tackles another ...
Goethe University co-ordinates mega-project on cybersecurity and data protection
European Commission signs CyberSec4Europe Grant AgreementCredit: Dettmar/Goethe University With a total grant amount of € 16 million, 'mega' is hardly ...
Lehigh University computer science researcher earns NSF CAREER Award
Five-year grant will support work in safeguarding complex machine learning models that piggyback on less-than-trustworthy technologyCredit: Douglas Benedict for Lehigh ...
Researchers safeguard hardware from cyberattack
Engineers are addressing a vulnerability in hardware that some thieves have exploited to steal dataCredit: Corrie Stookey/UC College of Engineering ...
Facial recognition software to identify Civil War soldiers
Credit: Ken Turner Collection Kurt Luther, Virginia Tech assistant professor of computer science, has developed a free software platform that ...
Don’t panic: Lessons learned from Hawaii false alarm
'Ballistic missile threat inbound' text message made people verify and check what others were doing When Hawaiian Island residents received ...
Good news for future tech: Exotic ‘topological’ materials are surprisingly common
A new online catalog makes it easy to predict topological behaviors in materialsCredit: Maia G. Vergniory, Luis Elcoro, Claudia Felser, ...
Online intervention shows promise in HIV prevention
Penn Nursing tool helps decrease HIV risks among young men who have sex with menCredit: José Bauermeister, Ph.D., M.P.H./ Penn ...
Exposing flaws in metrics for user login systems
Rutgers study could lead to tighter computer, smartphone and internet securityCredit: Can Liu/Rutgers University-New Brunswick How good is the research ...
People with chronic pain are coping with the help of Pinterest, new study reveals
The study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University also suggests that Pinterest could be a valuable tool for health care ...