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BBC NewsScientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) claim they can improve DNA data storage 100-fold with a new processor they developed. GTRI's Nicholas Guise said the approximately 100x higher density of the processor's features enables this expansion, which should be facilitated with control electronics over the next year. The technology grows unique DNA strands one chemical base at a time, which can be used to encode data in a manner similar to […]

Cornell ChronicleCornell University researchers have developed a computational tool for predicting binding sites on the surfaces of human and COVID-19 viral proteins. A user-friendly Web server also provided by the tool’s developers shows all protein structures, so virologists and clinicians can determine whether current drugs, or those under development, will bind to them. "The tool we developed to predict protein-to-protein interfaces is the most accurate, and we can use it to make the most […]

NatureResearchers at U.K.-based artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory DeepMind worked with mathematicians to use AI to identify patterns that humans had overlooked in a theory of knots and the study of symmetry, via machine learning. Knot theorists determined the saliency maps technique would be most useful in finding a pattern that linked two knot properties, which led to a formula that appeared correct in all testable cases. The University of Oxford's Marc Lackenby and András Juhász […]

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)Information technology scientists at Germany's Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences detected 14 new types of Web browser-targeting cross-site leaks (XS-Leaks). XS-Leaks circumvent the same-origin policy designed to prevent the theft of information from a trusted Website, allowing hackers to identify site details that are linked to personal data. The researchers identified three defining XS-Leak characteristics and […]

The San Diego Union TribuneThe University of California, San Diego (UCSD)'s High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) helps Southern California emergency personnel and residents identify the locations of fires and their likely pathways through connected cameras and weather sensors. UCSD's Frank Vernon said, "By early 2010, more than 60 firefighting sites in San Diego County were connected by cameras and the Internet via HPWREN, often in difficult-to-reach areas." Over […]