Hackers linked to the Russian government stole research files on Donald Trump from the Democratic National Committee, according to a US firm investigating the breach.
BOSTON--Government prosecutors surprised a court last week by seeking a 6-month delay in proceedings against two biologists accused of stealing research secrets from Harvard University.
Jiang Yu Zhu and Kayoko Kimbara were jailed last month after an FBI complaint alleged that they conspired to steal research materials and secrets when the couple, who are married, left Harvard University in 1999 after working as postdocs in the lab of cell biologist Frank McKeon at Harvard Medical School.
I've seen colleagues use e-mail to accuse each other of stealing research ideas, of being "stupid" and therefore not deserving of their doctorate, of being "a disgrace to the professoriate" and of "destroying the department".
A years-long hacking mission led by a group of Iranians penetrated computer systems at hundreds of U.S. universities, companies, and federal organizations in an attempt to steal research and data, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Nearly every window had been broken, most of the scientific equipment had been stolen, and research reports were scattered around the floor, along with broken furniture and glass.
At trial the Greenglasses said Julius Rosenberg had recruited David Greenglass as a spy and arranged for him to feed stolen atomic research and a detonator to a go-between, Harry Gold.
"She mentioned some upcoming roles, but never did she say that she was stealing to research a part.
B1 SCIENCE TIMES F1-10 Health & Fitness F5 FASHION B7 SPORTSTUESDAY D1-6 ARTS E1-10 Epic Copyright Dispute A legal conflict is brewing over one of the summer's potential blockbuster movies, the Crusades epic "Kingdom of Heaven," with an author accusing the film's director, Ridley Scott, and the studio releasing the film, 20th Century Fox, of stealing his research for their screenplay.
Through his expertise as a physicist, and then his opportunism in stealing the research ideas of a graduate student who works with him at an institute in Berkshire known only as the Centre, Beard is engaged in a programme to create cheap renewable energy through a process of artificial photosynthesis (you'll need to read the book to be filled in on the science).
