Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms
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Understanding of invisible but mighty particles in Earth's radiation belts      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Tiny charged electrons and protons which can damage satellites and alter the ozone have revealed some of their mysteries to scientists.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Graphene key for novel hardware security      (via sciencedaily.com) 

As more private data is stored and shared digitally, researchers are exploring new ways to protect data against attacks from bad actors. Current silicon technology exploits microscopic differences between computing components to create secure keys, but artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used to predict these keys and gain access to data. Now, researchers have designed a way to make the encrypted keys harder to crack.

Computer Science: Encryption
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An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable. Now, researchers have printed complexly encoded data with normal ink and a carbon nanoparticle-based invisible ink, requiring both UV light and a computer that has been taught the code to reveal the correct messages.

Computer Science: Encryption Mathematics: Puzzles
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Algorithms improve how we protect our data      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists have developed algorithms that more efficiently measure how difficult it would be for an attacker to guess secret keys for cryptographic systems. The approach could reduce the computational complexity needed to validate encryption security.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Computer scientists discover new vulnerability affecting computers globally      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A team o computer science researchers has uncovered a line of attack that breaks all Spectre defenses, meaning that billions of computers and other devices across the globe are just as vulnerable today as they were when Spectre was first announced.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms
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Airports could generate enough solar energy to power a city      (via sciencedaily.com) 

New research shows placing solar panels on the roofs of Australian airport buildings could be an efficient step towards net zero emissions.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Materials advances are key to development of quantum hardware      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new article argues that the ability to move forward on developing useful quantum computers requires new major advances in materials science, engineering and fabrication. The authors call for new approaches from broad areas of science and engineering.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Transforming circles into squares      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have developed a method to change a cellular material's fundamental topology at the microscale.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Geoscience: Severe Weather Space: The Solar System
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New study ties solar variability to the onset of decadal La Nina events      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study shows a correlation between the end of solar cycles and a switch from El Nino to La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean, suggesting that solar variability can drive seasonal weather variability on Earth.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Space: The Solar System
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The case of the cloudy filters: Solving the mystery of the degrading sunlight detectors      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Sun-facing satellites monitor the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) light to give us advance warning of solar storms. But over the course of just a year or two, the metal filters in the detectors mysteriously lose their ability to transmit UV light. Now, scientists have found the first evidence indicating that carbonization is not the problem.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Facial recognition ID with a twist: Smiles, winks and other facial movements for access      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Concurrent Two-Factor Identity Verification requires both one's facial identity and a specific facial motion to gain access. To set it up, a user faces a camera and records a short 1-2 second video of either a unique facial motion or a lip movement from reading a secret phrase. The video is then input into the device, which extracts facial features and the features of the facial motion, storing them for later ID verification.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Space: The Solar System
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The aurora's very high altitude booster      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Electrons arriving from the Sun are propelled by electrical energy generated as high as 30,000 kilometers above Earth, ultimately creating the dazzling displays of the northern and southern lights.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Researchers discover that privacy-preserving tools leave private data anything but      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers explored whether private data could still be recovered from images that had been 'sanitized'' by such deep-learning discriminators as privacy protecting GANs (PP-GANs).

Computer Science: Encryption
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Heat-free optical switch would enable optical quantum computing chips      (via sciencedaily.com) 

In a potential boost for quantum computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat. The solution makes it possible to integrate optical switches and single-photon detectors in a single chip.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Space: Exploration
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'Space hurricane' in Earth's upper atmosphere discovered      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Analysis of observations made by satellites in 2014 has revealed a long-lasting 'space hurricane' -- a swirling mass of plasma several hundred kilometers above the North Pole, raining electrons instead of water.

Computer Science: Encryption Mathematics: Puzzles
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Laser system generates random numbers at ultrafast speeds      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists have developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred times faster than current technologies, paving the way towards faster, cheaper, and more secure data encryption in today's digitally connected world.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Quantum systems learn joint computing      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers realize quantum-logic computer operation between two separate quantum modules in different laboratories.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms
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Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The temporary breakdown of Earth's magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major climate shifts that led to global environmental change and mass extinctions, a new international study shows.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Quantum computing: When ignorance is wanted      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Quantum technologies for computers open up new concepts of preserving the privacy of input and output data of a computation. Scientists have shown that optical quantum systems are not only particularly suitable for some quantum computations, but can also effectively encrypt the associated input and output data.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Cybersecurity vulnerabilities of common seismological equipment      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, say researchers who have probed the devices for weak points.