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Stealing Data With Keyboard Sniffers

1 comment Yessi Pratiwi — October 28, 2008 / 8:49 pm

By analyzing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press on the keyboard, the security researchers at Swiss have made it possible to steal data from criminals. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne students tested 11 different keyboard models that connected to a computer via either a USB or a PS/2 socket. The researchers [...]

DNA Sequences Has Different Sensitivity To Light

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — October 12, 2008 / 6:56 pm

In the journal Science appearing on October 10, 2008, Nina Schwalb and colleagues represent the researcher form Kiel University to show that they have succeeded to proof that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. It has been known before that DNA highly resistant against alteration by ultraviolet light. Human DNA, basically, [...]

Faulty Copying Can Repair Genetic Damage in Ants and Minibacteria, Research Found

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — October 9, 2008 / 7:04 pm

A recent discovery on genetic repair has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Uppsala researchers presenting their new finding that used minibacteria and ants. Insects like ants, tse-tse flies, and aphids known to be dependent from special minibacteria for their survival. The bacteria live in special organs inside insect’s [...]

Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — October 9, 2008 / 6:57 pm

It was reported in ScienceDaily, the researchers from Ohio State University suggest that animals has been walking using legs 30 million years earlier than previously thought. From the footprints found (track of two parallel rows of small dots) they firstly thought that it was microbe or multi-cellular animals. Loren Babcock, the professor in the research said [...]

Cells That Make People Fat Discovered

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — October 6, 2008 / 1:46 pm

During the past 20 years or so, obesity has become a world wide problem. It affects those people who fail to look after their health, especially their habit in eating, since obesity is intimately linked to food and fat. Again and again, there the word goes : fat. Why fat makes people have obesity? [...]

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