This year is the 50th anniversary of the activation of the Arpanet project. […]

Used in the design of the Internet and Unix, the layered services of the hourglass model have enabled viral adoption and deployment scalability. […]

There is a need for alternative techniques for understanding and evaluating QUIC when compared with previous transport-layer protocols. […]

"Taking a Long Look at QUIC," by Arash Molavi Kakhki et al., is a bold attempt to unearth the reasons why QUIC works better than TCP. […]

Researchers at the University of Bath have integrated advanced three-dimensional scanning to generate digital models for affordable and more personalized lower-limb prosthetic liners. […]

(Houston Methodist) People with chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes and heart disease may one day forego the daily regimen of pills and, instead, receive a scheduled dosage of medication through a grape-sized implant that is remotely controlled. […]

(Kobe University) Photoreceptor cells in our eyes can adjust to both weak and strong light levels, but we still don't know exactly how they do it. Emeritus Professor Fumio Hayashi of Kobe University and his colleagues revealed that the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin forms transient clusters within the disc membranes in retina. These clusters are concentrated in the center of disc membranes, and act as platforms in the process of light to chemical signal conversion. […]

(Vienna University of Technology) Under certain circumstances, a wave can split into several paths, reaching some places with high intensity, while avoiding others almost completely. This kind of 'branched flow' has first been observed in 2001. Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have now developed a method to exploit this effect. The core idea of this new approach is to send a wave signal exclusively along one single pre-selected branch, such that the wave is hardly noticeable anywhere else. […]

(University of Connecticut) For the first time, scientists can record cells communicating in real time, opening the floodgates for new developments in cell therapy and other areas within cell biology. […]

(Harvard University) Time-saving method makes it possible to profile gene regulation in tens of thousands of individual human cells in a single day. Approach combines microfluidics and novel software to scale up single-cell ATAC-seq, which identifies parts of the tightly packaged genome that are more open and accessible to regulatory proteins. Profiling individual cells can clarify how genes function - in which specific cell types, at what time - and whether they play a role in disease. […]

Quantum computers are improving at a doubly exponential rate -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Breakthrough demonstrations using defective diamonds, high-flying drones, laser-bathed crystals and other exotica suggest practical, unhackable quantum networks are within reach -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

It’s called decoherence—but while a breakthrough solution seems years away, there are ways of getting around it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Researchers trained a neural network to scrutinize high school essays and sniff out ghostwritten papers. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

It leads users down rabbit holes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]