Technology

Detector Identifies 7 Emotions- Including This One That Makes For A Dangerous Driver

New technology developed by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne allows them to detect facial expressions and identify which of the seven universal emotions a person is feeling: fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, surprise, or suspicion. This could be ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 12:37am

Mmmmm: Gluten-Free Crackers Made Of Hemp And Green Tea

Gluten-free foods are all the rage. What was once the plight of celiac patients has become the latest health fad and a $5 billion annual industry. Companies like General Mills and others have taken advantage of the 200 percent higher prices people are wil ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 3:26pm

21st Century Bionic Plants Might Even Monitor For Environmental Pollutants

It's hard to imagine how plants, one of nature's greatest successes, could be improved, but nanobionic plants which enhance the photosynthetic function of chloroplasts isolated from plants for possible use in solar cells may get a boost. By augm ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 1:00am

Sorry Duck Dynasty, Deer Hunting Is Going To Help Patients With Diabetes

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evaporate easily in the air but they help suppress a deer hunter's worst enemy- smells.  And that science of deer hunting may soon help researchers develop a life-saving device for diabetes patients, according to a p ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 6:18pm

Was This Press Release Written By A Human? Do You Care?

What do you think about computer-generated news articles? Would you even know? Recently, Google has tried to penalize 'content farms'- especially companies that look for keywords, terms and trends in searches and automatically generate articles t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 12:15pm

FMRI Scans: Separating The Hype From The Reality

Neuroimages are playing a growing role in biomedical research, medicine, and courtrooms. Unfortunately, that often means they are used to bolster weak observational studies and imply correlation and causation. The people most likely to commit scientific s ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 2:11pm

Extreme Gray Literature- Famous Paintings As Evidence For Earth's Climate Past

Tree rings don't lie but if you trust temperature readings before 1980, you are not using a rational approach to science. There are too many cases where the official reader is a thermometer of unknown quality or a television report that used what a f ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 11:18am

How To Write A Science Article In 3 Minutes

Last week, the L.A. Times was able to post an article about an earthquake 3 minutes after it happened. No human could write that fast. And no human did. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 26 2014 - 2:31pm

Exhibit: Data Visualization For The Masses

In 2007, members of the Haystack Group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released a set of Web development tools called Exhibit, which lets novices quickly put together interactive data visualizations, such as maps with ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 9:56am

Science Outreach: There's Not Much Tweeting From The Ivory Tower

University scholars don't use social media to circulate scientific findings and engage their tech-savvy students, according to Michigan State University scholars. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 10:03am