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Keeping Web-Browsing Data Safe from Hackers
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Keeping Web-Browsing Data Safe from Hackers

Malicious agents can use machine learning to launch powerful attacks that steal information in ways that are tough to prevent and often even more difficult to study. Attackers can capture data that “leaks” between software programs running on the same computer. They then use machine-learning algorithms to decode those signals, which enables them to obtain...

Older Latinos Redefine Family to Include Friends, Neighbors, Other Community Members
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Older Latinos Redefine Family to Include Friends, Neighbors, Other Community Members

Latinos view the support of friends, neighbors and other community members as so vital to their well-being in later life that they redefine these relationships as family, researchers say in a new study that explored older Latinos’ perspectives on positive aging. This redefinition of social relationships in old age, called “convivir,” which means to coexist,...

Amazon Rainforest Foliage Gases Affect the Earth’s Atmosphere
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Amazon Rainforest Foliage Gases Affect the Earth’s Atmosphere

​Plant-foliage-derived gases drive a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).   The findings have important applications for atmospheric science and for climate change modeling.  “The tropical Amazon rainforest constitutes the lungs of the Earth, and this study connects natural processes in the forest to...

A Tool for Predicting the Future
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A Tool for Predicting the Future

Whether someone is trying to predict tomorrow’s weather, forecast future stock prices, identify missed opportunities for sales in retail, or estimate a patient’s risk of developing a disease, they will likely need to interpret time-series data, which are a collection of observations recorded over time. Making predictions using time-series data typically requires several data-processing steps...

With Threats of Nuclear War and Climate Disaster Growing, America’s ‘Bunker Fantasy’ Is Woefully Inadequate
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With Threats of Nuclear War and Climate Disaster Growing, America’s ‘Bunker Fantasy’ Is Woefully Inadequate

At the end of the Academy Award-nominated film “Don’t Look Up,” with a meteor hurtling toward Earth, the movie’s three scientist-protagonists gather with family and friends for a last supper around a dinner table in central Michigan. Having exhausted their efforts at action, they eat the food they’ve prepared and purchased, give thanks and pray...

Enjoy Better-Cooked Pasta with … Physics and a Ruler?
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Enjoy Better-Cooked Pasta with … Physics and a Ruler?

Multitudes of amateur chefs will soon enjoy perfect al dente pasta and cleaner kitchen walls, as new research shows how measurements with a ruler — not the mythologized throwing against the nearest vertical surface — may be the best way to confirm when pasta is fully cooked. In their presentation at the American Physical Society...