Nuclear Calendar -- October 4, 2018 | FCNL

Friends Committee on National Legislation October 4, 2018 Oct. 4 9:00-11:45 a.m., Senator Joni Ernst (IA); Dakota Wood, Heritage Foundation; Thomas Spoehr, Heritage Foundation, "Release of the 2019 I ...

China used tiny chips in US computers to steal secrets: report | Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley

Image source: ezzat.info Chinese spies reportedly used tiny chips in computer equipment in data centers to steal U.S. corporate secrets Oct. 4, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Tiny chips inserted in U.S. comput ...

Tesla without Musk at the wheel? It's what the SEC now wants | Tom Krisher And Alexandra Olson

Elon Musk at the 2015 Tesla Motors Annual Meeting. Credit: Steve Jurvetson, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Sept. 28, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Tesla without Elon Musk at the wheel? To many of the electric car maker's c ...

A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller

Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...

Evaluating creativity in computational co-creative systems | Ingrid Fadelli

Three main trends in creative systems: creativity support tools, fully autonomous systems and co-creative systems. Credit: Karimi et al. Aug. 8, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Computer programs assist humans i ...

'Topological' graphene nanoribbons trap electrons for new quantum materials | Daniel Rizzo, Ting Cao and Gregory Veber

Scanning tunneling microscope image of a topological nanoribbon superlattice. Electrons are trapped at the interfaces between wide ribbon segments (which are topologically non-trivial) and narrow rib ...

New Cryptographic System To Improve Accountability Of Government Surveillance | Shafi Goldwasser & Daniel J. Weitzner

Image Credits: Dan Bruins, TechCrunch.com Aug. 8, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Researchers are proposing a new cryptographic system to improve the accountability of government surveillance while still mainta ...

NASA prepares to launch Parker Solar Probe, a mission to touch the Sun | Sarah Frazier

Parker Solar Probe will explore the corona, a region of the Sun only seen from Earth when the Moon blocks out the Sun's bright face during total solar eclipses. The corona holds the answers to many o ...

Nuclear Calendar -- July 5, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation July 5, 2018 July 6 Submission deadline for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Nonproliferation Review. July 9 11:00 a. ...

Braiding may be key to using time crystals in quantum computing | Lisa Zyga

Braiding time crystals. Credit: Bomantara and Gong. ©2018 American Physical Society June 20, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Braiding two different modes of time crystals can generate states necessary to perform ...

Election Fraud in the United States: 2004 to Present -- Part II: Evidence for Election Fraud in Exit Poll Discrepancies from Official Results | Dale Tavris

Image credit: solartopia.org Dale Tavris -- World News Trust June 20, 2018 Election Fraud in the United States: 2004 to Present Part II. Evidence for Election Fraud in Exit Poll Discrepancies from Of ...