Technology

For The Laziest Dog Owners (Oh, And Rescue Workers Too)- Canine Remote Control

A new control suite with a microprocessor, wireless radio, GPS receiver, and an attitude and heading reference system gives lazy dog owners  a way to command their pets with a remote control, or a smart phone, or even with out hands at all- the new system ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2013 - 9:52am

Lying In A Text Message? Response Delay Trips People Up

If you have ever been trading a flurry of text messages with someone and there was an awkward pause, don't assume they are doing some work or have a life, you probably should be suspicious. An analysis has determined that when people lie in digital m ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2013 - 9:11am

How the Guardian is Helping Al Qaeda and the NSA

Bruce Schneier needs to watch the movie "Battleship" more desperately than any moron in history.  He may know a lot about security systems in technology but his efforts to undermine the US government and its allies' efforts to track Al Qaeda ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Sep 8 2013 - 12:42pm

Unfinished Tudor Sculptures Recreated

While the Plantagenets are getting all of the attention in England these days due to the discovery of Richard III's remains (though the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family currently holding the monarchy also got a lot of attention thanks to a new baby ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2013 - 11:05am

An Idea From 1908 May Cut The Cost And Speed Up The Production Of Medicines

Medicine of the 21st century is getting a hand from an idea Henry Ford had in the 19th century and implemented in 1908- the concept of continuous mass production. Billions of tablets, capsules and other forms of medicine that people take each year are sti ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2013 - 8:00pm

Swarm Control: Online Game Teaches Researchers How Populations Can Perform Coordinated, Complex Tasks

Robotic researchers are refining control algorithms for robotic swarms based upon data from five free online games that anyone can play. In the games, players use simple commands to move groups of robots through mazes and around obstacles. Sometimes the g ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2013 - 1:50pm

TheSkyNet Citizen Science Project Gets A T2

TheSkyNet, a community computing project dedicated to astronomy that was initiated by the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Western Australia,  is celebrating its two year anniversary today with the official launch of a ne ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2013 - 8:29am

50-50 Phase-Change Memory May Be The Future Of Flash

An environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation "phase-change" memory devices, which could be an alternative to slower speed, lower storage ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2013 - 10:32am

Plankton Portal: Citizen Scientists Explore The Open Ocean From The Comfort Of Home

A new citizen science project allows you to explore the open ocean from the comfort of your home. You can 'dive' hundreds of feet deep, and observe the unperturbed ocean and the myriad animals that inhabit the earth's last frontier. The goa ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2013 - 7:05am

Beyond Peer Review: How To Manage Errors In Research Data

Traditional peer review is not enough to ensure data quality amid the recent boom in scientific research findings and open access places to publish them, according to results of a 10-year collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Techn ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2013 - 6:30am