A new type of polymer material that can be patterned using gentle visible light, creating stable hidden images visible only ...

A new digital fingerprint developed by researchers promises to make physical products impossible to counterfeit.

Sometimes it seems that as soon as an anti-counterfeiting process is created, someone finds a way of circumventing it. A new system could be particularly hard to foil, however, as it utilizes tiny ...

A research group has developed an innovative approach to creating anti-counterfeiting labels for high-value goods. Their findings enhance the security of the currently used cholesteric liquid crystals ...

On May 25, 2023, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) requested comments on strategies to address counterfeiting and piracy. The PTO requested information on current anti-counterfeiting and ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Screen-printed MXene-cellulose labels deliver infrared QR authentication, reversible thermal switching, and rapid 200-second degradation, offering durable industrial anti-counterfeiting with reduced ...

Growing concern about data theft and counterfeiting has inspired increasingly sophisticated security technologies, like hologram seals, that can help verify the authenticity of currency, passports and ...

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) represent a class of security primitives that exploit the intrinsic randomness in material properties to generate unique digital fingerprints. By harnessing the ...

Bacterial patterns invisible to the eye reveal hidden information only with correct biochemical triggers, creating anti-counterfeiting codes that are harder to copy or forge. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A ...

Lawyers in the US and Europe reveal the work they focus on, how they stay one step ahead of creative counterfeiters, and why reputation matters Counterfeiting continues to be rampant. In 2023, the US ...

Last year, Amazon identified, seized and disposed of 7 million counterfeit products worldwide. That’s certainly impressive, but what’s perhaps even more impressive is the number of would-be ...