NanoCops

The EMV chip has been hacked...

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/tamper/

Computer Laboratory – Security Group: Tamper resistance of Chip & PIN (EMV) terminals We demonstrate how fraudsters could collect card details and PINs, despite the victims taking all due care to protect their information. This means that customers should not automatically be considered liable for fraud, simply because the PIN was used. Even though a customer's PIN might have been co…

Group "steppen" tour - Meet the COPS on the road

Cool: our "Molecules in love" on the cover of PRL.
http://prl.aps.org/covers/109/20
http://m.phys.org/news/2012-11-energy-debate-impact-areas-photovoltaics.html

PRLimage for v109 i20 Fluorescent dyes spaced by short DNA strands probe Förster energy transfer in a controlled nanophotonic environment defined by a mirror. [Christian Blum, Niels Zijlstra, Ad Lagendijk, Martijn Wubs, Allard P. Mosk, Vinod Subramaniam, and Willem L. Vos, Phys. Rev. Lett.109, 203601 (2012)]