NYU Tandon researchers create synthetic fingerprints capable of spoofing smartphone fingerprint sensors. Devices typically allow users to enroll several different finger images, and a match for any saved partial print is enough to confirm identity. Frankly, that is not how I envisaged these biometrics scans to work.  Partial fingerprints are less likely to be unique than…

After nine years in deep space collecting data—NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations.  For those who have never heard about Kepler, it was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission. Kepler highlighted thousands of planets peppered throughout the cosmos. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the…