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Game-changing invention to revolutionize internet security
(Lancaster University) Driverless cars and social media will become unhackable with the creation of the world's first practical Quantum Random Number Generator patented by Quantum Base and exhibited at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition...
Invasive Giant Hogweed's Solar-Activated Sap Causes Blistering Skin Burns
The plant, which has spread to 11 states and was recently found in Virginia, attacks the DNA in human cells-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Supplemental antioxidants may reduce exacerbations in cystic fibrosis
(American Thoracic Society) An antioxidant-enriched vitamin may decrease respiratory exacerbations in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), according to new research published online in April in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medic...
How Physics Lost Its Way
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder claims desire for beauty and other subjective biases have led physicists astray-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
I Regret to Inform You: Kilauea Rumors Aren't At All True
Here's your one-stop Kilauea BS detector-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Balancing Rocks and Philae's Wave
Stunning images from the final archive of the Rosetta comet mission-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Extreme Flu? Weird Encephalitis? It May Be Your Genes
Subtle mutations can undermine our ability to fend off a specific bug-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
"Foul Treachery" of Trotsky and Lenin in 1918; Phineas Gage's Brain in 1868
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
There's No Limit to Longevity, Says Study Reviving Human Lifespan Debate
The findings counter some previous work-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Stepping into a Three-Torus
How artist Yayoi Kusama showed me the beauty of a favorite mathematical space-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com