The Passports Department has launched a new online verification system that resolves the technical issues previously affecting the fingerprint verification of online passport applicants. Applicants ...

The latest Android 16 update brings back the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature to Pixel phones. The feature was introduced in Android 16 DP2 for the Pixel 9 series, but later expanded to older ...

Many cyclists won’t need much persuading that their next bike should be titanium. Bikes made of the metal are highly desirable for their raw metal looks and fabled ride quality. But, although these ...

Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense temperatures, gas, and friction of firing a gun. A new ...

The Apple Watch Series 10 and Series 11 are available with both aluminum and titanium case options, so which should you choose? The aluminum Apple Watch starts at $399. With the Series 11, finishes ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr. Eithne Dempsey, and her recent Ph.D. student ...

Americans traveling to Europe will soon have their fingerprints scanned and picture taken when they arrive in countries like France, Italy and Spain under new regulations being rolled out across the ...

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This application note evaluates the mechanical properties of titanium using displacement-controlled nanoindentation, including its elastic modulus and hardness. It correlates these physical ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Your breath is one of a kind. A study published June 12 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology demonstrated that scientists can identify individuals based solely on their breathing patterns with 96 ...

Many criminals have been caught because they used a typewriter. The most famous case is probably Ted Kaczynski (aka “The Unabomber”), who mailed a typewritten manifesto to the New York Times ...