Technology

Mad Cow Disease In Humans: New Test Detects Toxic Prions In Blood

The first cases of Mad Cow disease in humans- properly known as variant Creutzfeld Jakob Disease, or vCJD, though no one recognizes that name- occurred in the late 1990s and were thought to be the consequence of eating contaminated beef products. Since th ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2014 - 9:50pm

HTTP With Accountability: Tim Berners-Lee Wants To Reinvent The World Wide Web

Most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web, the cryptographic schemes that protect online banking and credit card purchases have proven their reliability over decades. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 3:34pm

Bionic Pancreas Outperforms Insulin Pump

The process of blood glucose control could improve dramatically with a bionic pancreas, according to a new study. Currently, people with type 1 diabetes maintain a constant vigil because their pancreas doesn't make the hormone insulin and so they nee ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 8:36am

NaNose: Lung Cancer Gets A Breathalyzer Test

Lung cancer causes more deaths in the U.S. than the next three most common cancers- colon, breast, and pancreatic - combined, for a simple reason: poor detection. You can be living your life with no symptoms while it is metastasizing uncontrollably and it ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2014 - 9:30am

New Test Identifies Heart Transplant Rejection- Without A Biopsy

Researchers have created a noninvasive way to detect heart-transplant rejection weeks or months earlier than previously possible. The test relies on the detection of increasing amounts of the donor's DNA in the blood of the recipient and does not req ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 8:45am

Google Play's Security Flaw: Thousands Of Secret Keys Are Hidden In Android Apps

A paper presented at the ACM SIGMETRICS conference today revealed a crucial security problem in Google Play, the official Android app store where millions of users of Android, the most popular mobile platform, get their apps.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 8:00pm

Do Your Children Look More Like You Than Your Spouse? Now A Computer Can Tell

It's puzzling how some people can look at a baby and say 'she looks like her dad'- computers have historically been even more limited. While a four-year-old can look at a cartoon of a chicken and say "That's a chicken", that ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 1:01pm

Is There An The Arrow Of Time? If So, Can We See It?

Einstein's theory of relativity conceptualizes time as we would a spatial dimension, like height, width, and depth. But unlike dimensions, time seems to permit motion in only one direction: forward.  This directional asymmetry — the "arrow of ti ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 5:01pm

New Invisibility Cloak Even Hides Objects From The Sense Of Touch

In the past years, invisibility cloaks using metamaterials have developed for various senses. At certain wavelengths, objects can be hidden from light, for example, and even heat or sound. But touch? That defies our The Invisible Man science-fiction sensi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2014 - 4:29pm

Vegetarian Water- For The Truly Ethical

Did you know that when you drink water, you are not really being vegetarian? I didn't either. It turns out that when you drink water, it could have microbes and other small stuff- well, I knew that part. What I did not know is that viruses and bacteri ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:13pm