Cyber peacekeeping is integral in an era of cyberwar – here's why
Cyber warfare is upon us, from interference in elections to a leak of cyber weapons from a national stockpile. And, as with most evolutions in warfare, the world is largely unprepared. Cyber peacekeeping presents significant challenges, which we explore in our research.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-cyber-peacekeeping-era-cyberwar.html
Climate scientists explore hidden ocean beneath Antarctica's largest ice shelf
Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf is the world's largest floating slab of ice: it's about the size of Spain, and nearly a kilometre thick.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-climate-scientists-explore-hidden-ocean.html
Little genetic difference among Dungeness crab from California to Washington
A new study of Dungeness crab along the West Coast found strong genetic diversity throughout various sampling sites, with little genetic "differentiation" between them, meaning that crab found off the California coast are similar to those found off Oregon and Washington.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-genetic-difference-dungeness-crab-california.html
Morphing time—plant chloroplasts wake up before they go go
New research published this week in Nature Plants by University of Sheffield scientists explains how plants switch from photoprotection to photosynthesis when transitioning from darkness to daylight.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-morphing-timeplant-chloroplasts.html
Image: Tropical Cyclone Cebile
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Cebille. Cebille is hurricane-strength and looks like a pinwheel with a small eye surrounded by powerful bands of thunderstorms wrapped around the 5 nautical-mile-wide eye.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-image-tropical-cyclone-cebile.html
Light-controlled tool can be used to reveal secrets of protein function
UC San Francisco scientists have invented a technique that lets them precisely and reversibly disrupt the action of specific cellular proteins at a microscopic scale by making them split apart when illuminated with blue light. The researchers envision a vast number of applications for the technique in the study of cell biology.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-light-controlled-tool-reveal-secrets-protein.html
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