Technology

Artificial Euglenids: Smaller, Softer Robots Have A Cuter Image

The image of robotics in popular culture is classic science fiction; cogwheels, pistons and levers with perhaps a layer of rubberized skin: miniaturized robots of the future will be "soft".  "If I think of the robots of tomorrow, what comes ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2013 - 4:19pm

Mobile Phone Camera Can Be A Mini-Microscope For Low-Cost Diagnostics

Microscopy is the universal diagnostic method for detection of most globally important parasitic infections. But it's not cheap. Methods developed in well-equipped laboratories are not available at the basic levels of the health care system due to la ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2013 - 2:53pm

Peer-Reviewing Science Is Trending On Twitter- Maybe

Peer-reviewed articles are taking off on Twitter- whether or not people have read them is another story. But someone read them during peer review so more exposure is good even if, in the case of legacy journals, people can only read the abstract. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2013 - 11:14am

If You Care About The Environment, Here Are Two Reasons To Support Big Ag

There's no greater feel-good fallacy than the belief that organic food is somehow superior to conventionally farmed food. In reality, organic food isn't more environmentally responsible, it is worse, it isn't better for your health, it is wo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 7 2014 - 11:47am

Synthetic Replacement: Artificial Cartilage In Joints Makes Some Progress

Combining two innovative technologies, a team of engineers have made steps toward a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints. Farshid Guilak, a professor of orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering at Duke University, and Xuanhe Zh ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2013 - 2:33pm

A Lot Of Scientific Data Gets Lost

A new estimate says that up to 80 percent of scientific data is lost within two decades. The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2014 - 6:00am

Christmas Tinner- A Holiday Feast For Hipsters

If you are an avid gamer who can't be bothered with cooking Christmas dinner, or a hipster who wants to cynically consume packaged food while watching bad movies, there is a good news. The Christmas Tinner is 9 layers of processed food in a can, meals ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2013 - 11:11am

Five Ways That Farmers Control Pests Other Than With Pesticides

There are many pests in the world which attack plants or compete with them for the resources they need to grow.  This is true for plants growing in natural stands, but also for the plants that people grow as crops.  If pests are left unchecked, crop produ ...

Article - Steve Savage - Dec 30 2013 - 11:56am

Imaging Technology Could Unlock Mysteries Of Childhood Respiratory Syncytial Virus

By the time they turn two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. Yet for some children, especially premature babies and those with underlying health conditions, RSV can lead to pneumonia a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2013 - 5:01pm

A World Of Wikipedia And Bitcoin: Is That The Promise Of Open Collaboration?

Open Collaboration, defined in a new paper as "any system of innovation or production that relies on goal-oriented yet loosely coordinated participants who interact to create a product (or service) of economic value, which they make available to cont ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 11:46am