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.

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.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Say goodbye to the dots and dashes to enhance optical storage media      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new technology is aimed at modernizing the optical digital storage technology. This advancement allows for more data to be stored and for that data to be read at a quicker rate. Rather than using the traditional dots and dashes as commonly used in these technologies, the innovators encode information in the angular position of tiny antennas, allowing them to store more data per unit area.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Researchers use car collisions with deer to study mysterious animal-population phenomena      (via sciencedaily.com) 

By parsing data on weather, deer populations and deer-vehicle collisions in Wisconsin, investigators show spatial synchrony could be driving population cycles, rather than the reverse.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Researchers improve data readout by using 'quantum entanglement'      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers say they have been able to greatly improve the readout of data from digital memories - thanks to a phenomenon known as 'quantum entanglement'.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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2020 tied for warmest year on record, NASA analysis shows      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Earth's global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Physicists observe competition between magnetic orders      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Two-dimensional materials, consisting of a single layer of atoms, have been booming in research for years. They possess novel properties that can only be explained with the help of the laws of quantum mechanics. Researchers have now used ultracold atoms to gain new insights into previously unknown quantum phenomena. They found out that the magnetic orders between two coupled thin films of atoms compete with each other.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Largest study of Asia's rivers unearths 800 years of paleoclimate patterns      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The SUTD study will be crucial for assessing future climatic changes and making more informed water management decisions.

Computer Science: Encryption Mathematics: Puzzles
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A biochemical random number      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists have generated a huge true random number using DNA synthesis. It is the first time that a number of this magnitude has been created by biochemical means.

Computer Science: Encryption
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Researchers simulate privacy leaks in functional genomics studies      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers demonstrate that it's possible to de-identify raw functional genomics data to ensure patient privacy. They also demonstrate how these raw data could be linked back to specific individuals through their gene variants by something as simple as an abandoned coffee cup if these sanitation measures are not put in place.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists describe a previously unknown phylum of aquatic Archaea that are likely dependent on partner organisms for growth while potentially being able to conserve some energy by fermentation.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Soon, ecologists thinks we'll be able to pull off the same forecasting feat for bird migrations and wildlife populations as for climate forecasts. That's because just as those recurring changes in climate have predictable consequences for humans, they also have predictable effects on plants and animals.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Improved estimates of Brazilian Amazon gains and losses      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study generated improved annual maps of tropical forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000-2017 and provided better characterization on the spatio-temporal dynamics of forest area, loss and gain in this region. The Amazon basin has the largest tropical forests in the world. Rapid changes in land use, climate and other human activities have resulted in substantial deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the past several decades.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Indian Ocean causes drought and heatwaves in South America      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have revealed that atmospheric waves originating from convection over the Indian Ocean had a dramatic impact on climate conditions over South America and South Atlantic, leading to drought and marine heatwaves. Importantly, these conditions are not a one-off and are likely to happen again.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Unprecedented number of warm-water species moved northward during marine heatwave      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study documents an unprecedented number of southern marine species moving northward into California and as far north as Oregon during the 2014-2016 marine heatwave. Of 67 rare, warm-water species sightings observed, 37 had never been documented so far north before.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Climate change leading to water shortage in Andes, Himalayas      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Climate change could have devastating effects on vulnerable residents in the Andes mountains and the Tibetan plateau, according to researchers who have been studying glaciers in those areas for decades.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Study tracks severe bleaching events on a Pacific coral reef over past century      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study has uncovered the history of bleaching on a reef in the epicenter of El Nino, revealing how some corals have been able to return after facing extreme conditions.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Role of 'natural factors' on recent climate change underestimated, research shows      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Pioneering new research has given a new perspective on the crucial role that 'natural factors' play in global warming.

Geoscience: Severe Weather
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Melt-rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Melting of ice shelves in West Antarctica speeds up and slows down in response to changes in deep ocean temperature, and is far more variable than previously thought, according to new research.