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More than half of consumers have had to reset their password at least once a month because they struggle to remember it, with just 6% describing this form of authentication as safe. Instead, 53% believed fingerprint scans were more secure than passwords, while 47% chose facial recognition, revealed an Entrust Cybersecurity Institute study that polled 1,450 respondents across 12 global markets. These included France, the US, and the UK, as well as 400 respondents from four Asia-Pacific cities in Singapore, Australia,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain While each person gets dressed at least 29,000 times in the course of their lives, empirical science has paid little attention to why we select the everyday clothes that help mold our image. In one of the first studies of its type, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and London…

New data show that local fluctuations in the nuclear strong force may influence the spin orientation of particles called phi mesons (made of two quarks held together by the exchange of gluons). Credit: Brookhaven National LaboratoryFindings may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations.Given the choice of three different “spin” orientations, certain particles emerging from collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an <span…

Australia’s preference for SUV and light commercial vehicles has continued with those two segments accounting for 80.1% of the 87,299 new vehicles sold during October 2022. The passenger vehicle segment took 15.3% and heavy commercials 4.7%. The FCAI said October sales were up 16.9% year on year while the year to date total was 898,429. “However, this increase reflects more on supply issues in October 2021 rather than…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Six years ago, the state of Vermont passed what turned out to be a short-lived law mandating disclosure of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, on all food products. That law's effect? A collective shrug of the shoulders. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Can fast-fashion be sustainable? Researchers, including Javad Nasiry, Associate Professor at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management, think yes. By identifying why the fast fashion business model creates waste and whether regulators can establish incentives for consumers and manufacturers are steps to reducing waste.…

New research finds that policies granting permanent residency to immigrants conditional on acquiring host country skills—like language—are most likely to generate higher fiscal contributions to the host country through income taxes. In fact, immigrants with a preference for remaining in the host country, develop social contacts and other specific skills that allow them to find better paid jobs and stay for a longer time. Credit: Sahana Subramanyam…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Neoliberalism, which calls for free-market capitalism, regressive taxation, and the elimination of social services, has resulted in both preference and support for greater income inequality over the past 25 years, shows a new study by a team of psychology researchers. …