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We increasingly rely on electronic communications across society. You may have heard privacy protection methods for those messages, such as end-to-end encryption. However, can that protection be guaranteed against governments, industries or bad actors?How can we ensure privacy, but at the same time have the means to enforce laws and prevent malicious behaviour, and how do we develop cryptography law?Professor Moti Yung and colleagues at the Privacy, Security, and Safety Research Group at Google LLC and at Columbia University, USA, have conceptualised ‘anamorphic’ cryptography,  and have also been recognised for their contributions to the so-called ‘Crypto Wars’ debate,Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07085-3_2Read more in Research Outreach

Helium nanodroplets are fascinating objects that can be used as microscopic laboratories to form new types of nanomaterials. Researchers in COSY COST Action’s Working Group 4 , which recently celebrated its second anniversary, combine quantum, semiclassical and classical methods to investigate the physico-chemical properties of these droplets under extremely well-controlled conditions Visit their site: https://cost-cosy.eu/ Read the original research:https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP00489Ahttps://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP01303Khttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.07.425https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013019

A nanoparticle is a tiny particle typically in the size range of one to one hundred nanometres. Nano-scale systems can exhibit unique quantum mechanical properties due to their size.  The European Association for Cooperation in Science and Technology, which recently celebrated its second anniversary, focuses on the science of confined molecular systems. In this episode, we hear about their works to uncover the properties and behaviours of metal nanoparticles and clusters. Visit their site: https://cost-cosy.eu/Read the original research:https://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202400147https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301517 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/cp/d2cp05843jhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acscatal.3c02592https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021951723000842https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03923

On most days, a weather forecast is a convenient answer to simple questions, like : do I need an umbrella? How windy will it be?  For high stakes questions around landslide hazards, how do we deal with slope failure forecast? And are there any new tools improving our capabilities without waiting to learn from another disaster?Andrea Manconi, research scientist at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF joins us to discuss new satellite dataand methods to get ahead of the next slope collapse.Read the original paper: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3833-2024