A Princeton University group has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.
The technique is as easy as chilling a computer memory chip with a blast of frigid air.
In a technical paper that was published Thursday on the Web site of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, the group demonstrated that [...]
The U.S. Navy will likely attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite Thursday, the day after the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said there’s nothing the military can do to make the outcome worse.
“If we miss, nothing changes. If we shoot and barely touch it, the satellite is [...]
The Kyoto agreement; a way to allow market forces help us clean up the environment by buying and selling credits to cover a country’s ability to pollute. There’s a certain genius in the concept; it creates revenue centers for things that were previously part of the tragedy of the commons, but there are also pitfalls. [...]
Global warming has been a subject of debate for many years. However only recently has it returned to the forefront of public debate. The fact is, things have been getting a bit odd the last few years, scientifically speaking. Storms have been getting worse and summer heat waves have been more intense. Glaciers are melting [...]
So, among the legislation that our Congresspeople will not be getting done this season is approving changes to US law that would allow the trade of nuclear reactors and fuel. The press is covering how senators and representatives and Republicans and Democrats are pointing fingers at each other about why it’s been left undone. The [...]
President Bush vetoed legislation to expand embryonic stem cell research today.
“It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it,” Bush said of the research that involves the use of tiny human embryos. The bill he vetoed would have expanded the number of stem cell lines available for federally [...]
