Author: Milica Djekic
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Weekly Science Picks
It’s the end of this week, so it’s our time to summarise the most incredible and fascinating news from the area of science and technology. After careful consideration, we decided to share the following highlights with you. Genetic Forensics Wakes a Dragon A genetic investigation into the illegal trade of sailfin dragons has unearthed a…
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Weekly Science Picks
It’s Sunday again! It’s our time to give a brief review of the most amazing science and technology news that have appeared on the web during this week. The task was quite challenging, but we made it. We proudly present you the top stories of this Weekly Science Picks. Early universe ‘warmed up’ later than…
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Applications of Nanotechnology in Medicine
Nanotechnology can be viewed as the science and engineering included in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of materials and devices whose smallest functional organization is on the nanometer level or one billionth of a meter. At these scales, consideration of individual molecules and interacting groups of molecules becomes important. Applications to medicine imply materials…
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Weekly Science Picks
We came to the end of this week and it is our time to recount the most exciting and incredible stories from the world of science and technology. As usual, we had to make a hard decisions and after a careful consideration we decided to promote the news as follows: Dinosaur fossils from China help…
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The Best of Australian Science: January 2014
It’s the end of January, 2014. It’s our time to summarise what we have done during this month. Basically, we are going to recount the best highlights for January. Here are the most exciting and most interesting articles of this month. Four women researchers who were overshadowed in the sciences by Danica Radovanovic As an…
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Grand Engineering Challenge – Economical Solar Energy
As a source of energy, nothing can be compared with the sun. Solar energy is so called renewable source of energy which means it has very vital and promising role on our whole civilization. Nowadays humans have to be very efficient and capable to use all these sources of renewable energy to harness our economical…
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Weekly Science Picks
Well, it’s Sunday again. It’s our time to recapitulate all the scientific contributions, ideas, events and discoveries that have occurred in this week. To be honest, the job was quite challenging, since the science and technology market is highly competitive and unpredictable. Luckily, we made it. Now we would like to present you top stories…
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Weekly Science Picks
It’s time to summarise scientific contributions for this week and to open a new chapter for new discoveries. As usual, we would like to present the headlines which marked out the current week. The task was not the simple one, but we made it. Here are the most incredible things from the world of science…
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The Next Generation IT Security System
Spies, communication, and secret codes! Cryptography is the art of encrypting and decrypting messages. It has existed as long as people have distrusted each other and looked for the forms of secure communication. Cryptographic techniques have evolved over the centuries. The aim is always the same – the code-makers work to stay ahead of the…
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Weekly Science Picks
As you all know, we proudly can say we fixed all the problems we had in the past and returned to our audience after a short break. We are continuing our work as before and for this weekly wrap up we prepared quite interesting things from the area of science and technology. Will drones become…
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Challenges of Wireless Cryptography
As companies and individuals increasingly use wireless technologies for their significant communications, they also must be assured of security using proper cryptographic algorithms. The major fields of applications are mobile e-commerce transactions, e-mails and corporate data transaction. On the other hand, as wireless systems grow in popularity and carry valuable information, hackers are directing their…
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A Scytale – Cryptography of the Ancient Sparta
We continue with the series of articles about cryptography. More precisely, this one can be defined as a brief review of its history and the most significant ciphering device of ancient world. The initial post about this topic can be found here. Going back through time, the Mankind always had the need to transform the…
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Introduction to Cryptographic Basics
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties. More generally, it is about constructing and analyzing protocols that overcome the influence of third parties and which are related to various aspects in information security such as data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. Modern cryptography intersects…