Discovering that your new designer handbag or gold watch is a fake is costly and annoying, and counterfeit medical devices or drugs could have even more serious consequences. But seemingly as soon as ...

London: Scientists have created an "unclonable" tag that is based on random patterns that can not be replicated even by the manufacturer, an advance that could help prevent identify counterfeit ...

WHAT: Officials at Sandia National Laboratories are soliciting industry help in developing unclonable digital identification through cooperative research and development agreements that allow transfer ...

In a multinational collaboration, researchers from the Universities of Luxembourg, Ljubljana and Vienna have developed a new method to produce unique reflecting patterns that can be applied on ...

Nearly 600 cell lines commonly used in biomedical research today are misidentified or cross-contaminated, according to a recent paper and several additional studies. One estimates that nearly 33,000 ...

A flexible optical identifier uses polarized emission from self-assembled crystal films to create two stable states that support tri modal authentication and improve reliability in secure device ...