Category Technology/Electronics

Credit: Krzysztof Szczypiorski

What if you could hide messages in the tempo of that pounding music? It’s being done. A Polish scientist knows how to hide secret messages in music and is exploring results. ZME Science talked about his dealings with trance and techno, “electronic music meant to shake your mind and body with stomping rhythms and varying tempos.” The report in ZME Science said cybersecurity researcher Krzysztof Szczypiorski has produced tunes with hidden coded messages nested inside tempo variations.

The concept is musical steganography, and it involves coding messages in music...

Counter-rotating circularly polarized laser beams (red) are crossed in a gas target to generate angularly separated extreme ultraviolet (EUV) harmonics with right- and left-circular polarization (blue, purple, magenta). This method provides straightforward and robust control of the direction, polarization, and spectrum of the light, opening the door to investigating materials in ways that were never before possible. Credit: Image courtesy of Dan Hickstein and Steven Burrows, JILA

By crossing 2 counter-rotating ultrafast laser beams in a gas target, scientists controlled the direction and polarization of laser-like beams in the extreme UV and soft x-ray portions of the spectrum...

(Clockwise from left) Brookhaven Lab physicists Ivan Bozovic, Anthony Bollinger, and Jie Wu, and postdoctoral researcher Xi He are with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to synthesize more than 2,500 thin films of a copper-oxide compound called LSCO. The team studied LSCO to understand why it can become superconducting at a much higher temperature than the ultra-chilled temperatures required by conventional superconductors. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Understanding this exotic behavior may pave the way for engineering materials that become superconducting at room temperature...

This is a wood composite as an energy efficient building material: Guided sunlight transmission and effective thermal insulation. Credit: University of Maryland and Advanced Energy Materials

Natural microstructures in transparent wood are key to lighting & insulation advantages. Engineers at A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) demonstrate in a new study that windows made of transparent wood could provide more even and consistent natural lighting and better energy efficiency than glass, while eliminating glare. The findings advance earlier published work on their development of transparent wood.

The transparent wood lets through just a little bit less light than glass, but a lot less heat, said Tian Li...