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New technology could quash QR code phishing attacks

University of Rochester
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Rochester have engineered a new form of QR codes that can protect smartphone users from QR code-based phishing attacks by signaling if users are being directed to a safe link or a potential scam. The technology is outlined in a new study published in the journal IEEE Security & Privacy.

Journal: IEEE Security & Privacy
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Presidential awards spotlight naval research excellence

Naval Research Laboratory
Business Announcement

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An alternative energy mechanical engineer, two aerospace engineers, and a corrosion research engineer received the highest honor bestowed to early career U.S. government scientists and engineers.

NFL Alumni Association shares 8 plays needed to improve heart health

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

The American Heart Association and the NFL Alumni Association are sharing the 8 steps to boost heart health in a collaboration focused on improving men’s health

Research yields eco-friendly way to separate, recycle refrigerants tied to climate crisis

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The key innovation of the to University of Kansas research appearing in Science Advances is to use membranes — amorphous fluorinated polymers, to be specific — that efficiently isolate complex refrigerant mixtures. Other separation methods, like distillation, are less effective because of the complex composition of the mixtures.

Journal: Science Advances

Born to heal: Why babies recover, but adults scar, after heart damage

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren’t so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate healthy heart tissue, leading to scar-tissue buildup and, often, heart failure.

A new Northwestern Medicine study in experimental animals reveals a critical difference in how macrophages — a part of the immune system — help repair the heart in newborns versus adults after a heart attack. The study highlights a fundamental difference in how the immune system drives healing based on age.

Journal: Immunity
Funder: American Heart Association, NIH/National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association Project Award

Last chance to get a hotel discount for the world’s largest physics meeting

American Physical Society
Meeting Announcement

Book your hotel for the American Physical Society’s joint March Meeting and April Meeting, now called the Global Physics Summit, being held in person in Anaheim and online everywhere March 17-21.

New smart sensor takes the pain out of wound monitoring

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers from Penn State and China’s Hebei University of Technology addressed this issue by uncovering a new property of a sensor material, enabling the team to develop a new type of flexible sensor that can accurately measure both temperature and physical strain simultaneously but separately to more precisely pinpoint various signals.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation