Chemical analysis shows real-life Count Dracula could have cried tears of blood
From American Chemical Society 16/08/23 Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, was a 15th-century prince and military leader who was so terrifying, he’s thought to have inspired the creation of the literary vampire, Count Dracula. Now, a scientific examination of his letters is giving new insights into his health. Researchers now reporting in ACS’ […]
Using bacteria to encrypt messages
By Charles Carter, 24/09/22 Biomedical engineering innovators from Duke University have developed a new data encryption method using simulated bacterial growth patterns. The approach involves machine-learning and could have security advantages over existing encoding methods, due to the chaotic nature of bacterial growth. How does it work? The team developed a simulation of how bacteria […]