In an essay in the June 17, 2016 in Science, Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), says the FBI's efforts to compel Apple to write software to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist reflects an outdated approach to law enforcement that threatens to weaken smartphones security, putting the private information of millions of people at risk and undermining the growing use of smartphones as trusted authenticators for accessing online information.

Renowned physicist, author and broadcaster, Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE, has been awarded the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. Professor Jim Al-Khalili is the first person to be honoured for his contribution to science with this, first medal of its kind, at STARMUS International Science and Arts Festival in Tenerife on 29 June 2016. Stephen Hawking Medal recognizes the work of those helping to promote the public awareness of science through different disciplines such as science communication, music, arts and cinema.

Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute announced today it is entering a new, $7 million phase of a multi-million, multi-institutional development project to produce a diagnostic test to measure an individual's level of absorbed radiation in the event of an unplanned radiological or nuclear event.

Juliano Sarmento Cabral comes from a country with a tropical-subtropical climate. From an early age, he has been fascinated by the huge diversity of animals and plants existing around him and in the rest of the world. Of course, he was going to study biology. Now he is a junior professor for ecosystems modeling at the University of Würzburg.