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Printers Can Be Hacked to Catch on Fire

Two researchers at Columbia University in New York say they've found a flaw in ordinary office printers that lets hackers hijack the devices to spy on users, spread malware and even force them to overheat to the point of catching fire. [More]

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Video: Study: Google linked to lower memory retention

Recent studies conducted at Columbia University show the effects Internet search engines have on human memory retention. Joshua Foer, 2006 memory champion, speaks to Chris Wragge about the studies

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Mapping deformation in buried semiconductor structures using the hard X-Ray nanoprobe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and Columbia University, working with the X-Ray Microscopy Group, have mapped rotation and strain fields across a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure that included a liner of stressed Si3N4 using X-ray nanodiffraction (nano-XRD) at the CNM/APS Hard X-Ray Nanoprobe beamline.

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Search for dark matter moves one step closer to detecting elusive particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other institutions participating in the international XENON collaboration say they are now closer than ever before.

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