The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

China’s leaders are no longer content to react to the world as they find it. They are quietly building the tools to shape ...

We can't protect what we don't understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

Sequencing hundreds of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes provides new insights into the evolutionary patterns of this important human malaria-transmitting species. New research into the genetics of ...

Two candidates will vie for the office of president-elect of the American Chemical Society for 2026 in this year’s election. They are Christina Bodurow, the deputy director and chief operating officer ...

A significant increase in web traffic to AI-related websites has marked a shift in how users interact with artificial intelligence. Traffic to AI tool platforms rose from 7 billion visits in February ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook One of these heroes from the multiverse will be a Venom wearing a red and blue Spider-Man costume.

Perplexity on Wednesday launched its first AI-powered web browser, called Comet, marking the startup’s latest effort to challenge Google Search as the primary avenue people use to find information ...