How hashtags, texts and tweets influence digital language
Binghamton University psychologist Celia Klin tells Science Friday why a period in a text can convey a different emotion than in written messages. Read more
How your smartwatch reveals your ATM PIN codes
By tracking smartwatch motion as PIN numbers are entered, hackers can crack the codes with over 90 percent accuracy, Inc. magazine reports, citing Binghamton research. Read more
This is what Abraham Lincoln would tell Donald Trump
As the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump could learn a lot from his party’s first president, Abraham Lincoln, Binghamton University historian Donald Nieman writes in The Conversation. Read more
Inside the war on biofilms
Scientists are racing to develop new weapons to destroy slimy colonies of bacteria, known as biofilms, that cause tens of thousands of deaths across the U.S. each year, Binghamton’s Karin Sauer tells Stat News. Read more
Schools can help stop summer learning loss
While middle-class homes can often provide for summer enrichment activities, studies show a different reality for children from low-income families, Binghamton expert Laura Bronstein writes in The Conversation. These children and youth often lose months of reading and math skills over the summer, widening the achievement gap between the classes. Read more
Origami-inspired battery folds like a ninja star
Batteries are getting better every year at both storing energy and lasting longer, but the resulting chemical compositions make for an awfully expensive power-storing cocktail. Researchers at Binghamton University are trying to get that price down with paper-based disposable batteries, Popular Science reports. Read more
New lab could lead to manufacturing boost
A new partnership at Binghamton University could result in technology that changes the way companies manufacture electronics — and that change could bring more of that manufacturing back to America, WICZ-TV reports. Read more
