Technology

ClinicalTrials.Gov Underreports Deaths In Clinical Trials Compared To Journals

When the government that controls funding and therefore what is researched mandates where results have to be published, people taking the money have to comply. Thus it makes sense that clinical trial results as mandated by government may be different than ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 10:31am

Robot Teacher: Computers Show Each Other How To Play Pac-Man

Artificial intelligence researchers in Washington State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed technology that gives a computer the ability to give advice and teach skills to another computer in a way that m ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 11:15am

Cathartic Pain: A New Tweetment For Discussing Migraine Agony

If we describe the feeling of someone drilling an icicle into their temple, throwing up, and light and sound being unbearable, migraine sufferers know just what we mean. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 2:13pm

A New Approach For Detecting Changes In Genetically Modified Foods

Despite extensive cultivation and testing of GM foods, questions related to whether genetic manipulation causes changes in food quality and composition or if genetically modified foods are somehow less nutritious than their non-GM counterparts linger in t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 1:12pm

Purdue Students Create Soy-Based, Renewable, Recyclable Filament For 3-D Printing

The top prize in the annual Purdue Student Soybean Product Innovation Contest went to Carmen Valverde-Paniagua of Chihuahua, Mexico, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, Nicole Raley Devlin of Rockville, Md., a doctoral student in chemical engineer ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2014 - 9:05pm

ILHAIRE: New Computer Avatars Can Laugh Without Seemng Creepy

Two things send our Uncanny Valley creepiness meter straight to red- realistic robots that flirt and anything that laughs.  Realistic laughing is actually not trivial. We see it in real life, we can often tell when someone is fake laughing. On computers it ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2014 - 9:55am

The Downside To Twitter: A Rumor Maelstrom During Disasters

The 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, where a group of gunmen killed 165 and injured 304 people, the May 2012 shooting of five people by a gunman in Seattle and the recall of four million cars by Toyota in 2009 and 2010 because of a faulty accelerator pedal s ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 6:02am

Neuroscientists, You Now Have No Excuse Not To Share Raw Data

Researchers have developed a system allowing neurophysiologists to share raw data with each other, something they hope will generate new discoveries in the field. The first type of data they collected and standardized are recordings of so called ‘retinal w ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 12:01am

Epidural Electrical Stimulation Allows 4 Paraplegic Men To Voluntarily Move Their Legs

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs. Writing in the journal Brain, the researchers from the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology say the breakthrough is a r ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 11:55pm

Cheers, Muad'Dib: Urea Bioreactor Electrochemical System Recycles Astronaut Urine

On the less glamorous side of space exploration, there's the more practical problem of waste — in particular, what to do with astronaut pee. But rather than ejecting it into space, scientists are developing a new technique that can turn this waste bu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 10:46am