Swans on Tea

Enceladus up close
Saturn’s tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA’s Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches – once coming within a mere 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface. Scientists are learning a great deal about this curious little moon. Only about 500 kilometers wide (310 miles), it is very active, [...]

Compromising your keyboard by sniffing the EM radiation signature.
We found 4 different ways (including the Kuhn attack) to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. We tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all [...]

Erwin may or may not have killed a cat. (His wife’s cat) But he didn’t humiliate it.
Catahedron Costume
What’s cuter than a platonic solid? A cat dressed up as a platonic solid for Halloween!

A Light Take On The Gravity-Time Relationship
Brian Greene explains the link between gravity and time.
Greene has written a short (less than 40 cardboard pages) new picture book called Icarus at the Edge of Time. It tells the story of a young boy who slips off in a space ship and cruises over to a black [...]