SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Technology: Cyber Security and Digital Textbooks
How can we maintain security and privacy in the Internet age? In an interview with the Washington Post, the head of the FBI's Cyber Division said many people just don't take basic precautions. And Scientific American looked at how "protesters, terrorists and warmongers" have embraced the Internet.
In other news, scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology said their three-year investigation concluded that fires caused the collapse of a skyscraper next to New York's twin towers on Sept. 11. Conspiracy theorists have maintained that explosives were to blame.
Free digital texts may one day replace expensive textbooks in college classrooms, but it hasn't happened yet. Nevertheless, would-be reformers are writing and promoting open-source, no-cost digital texts.
And, finally, five years ago 50 million Americans lost electric power for up to two days in the biggest blackout in North American history. The big question is, could it happen again?
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