Technology

Self-Assembling Nanosubmarine Could Deliver Molecules To Cells

The world of "Fantastic Voyage" is rapidly approaching. Tiny devices are being used in therapeutic applications, and development of nanoparticles that can transport and deliver drugs to target cells in the human body is progressing also. Recentl ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 7:00pm

People Who Wear Glasses Really Are Smarter

Kids with glasses were once stereotypically considered smarter- expensive prescription specs did not lend themselves to sports so it made some sense they would focus on books due to the biological hand that was dealt them But it may be that needing glasse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 12:27am

Getting You Off The Couch- There's An App For That

You see advertisements for fitness apps on smartphones all of the time. Apple prides itself on convincing you that you will be a better dancer and healthier if you buy their phone. The problem is that the people most likely to use a fitness app for more t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2014 - 3:00pm

Artificial Intelligence: Crowdsourcing Will Teach Robots To Become Our Future Overlords Faster

Want to teach a robot to tend the garden? It will go faster if you let the crowd help. University of Washington computer scientists at the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong K ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2014 - 7:00am

Science 2.0: Big Data Is Complex, Cluster Analysis Can Make It A Little Simpler

'Big data' means a lot of things to a lot of people but generally it is used to indicate huge amounts of information, like texts or keywords, in use at any time by billions of people. Though it has many cultural upsides, tracking flu epidemics, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 3:53pm

No BRCA1 Gene Needed: New Test Predicts The Risk Of Non-Hereditary Breast Cancer

A blood testcould help predict the likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer, even in the absence of a high-risk BRCA1 gene mutation, according to researchers from University College London who identified an epigenetic signature in the blood of women ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 8:58pm

The Real Reason Tesla Opened Its Patents, And Why It Makes Business Sense

Tesla Motors CEO and Tony Stark do-alike Elon Musk recently raised a great deal of consternation by releasing Tesla’s patents for anyone to use “in good faith”.  Amid the hue and cry of befuddled business analysts, multiple theories bubbled up. ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Jun 27 2014 - 7:00am

Science 2.0: Analytics Can Predict Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome

Obviously, as the creators of the four pillars of the Science 2.0 concept, we're interested in new ways to use data to make meaningful decisions, but we recognize that key breakthroughs are more likely to happen in the private sector, where money can ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 8:30pm

Science 2.0 Approach To Monitoring Kidney Transplant Patients

A new data analysis technique in the journal PLoS Computational Biology improves monitoring of kidney patients and could lead to changes in the way we understand our health. The research uses the Science 2.0 approach to make sense out of the huge number o ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 6:00am

Apple Wars: How The News Media Are Getting It Backwards

YOU’VE SEEN THE REPORTS a thousand times. Samsung is now ahead of Apple in the smartphone wars, the media says. I’m looking at BBC news while writing this, and there we have the same story, freshly posted: “Apple accounted for 18.8 per cent of all sales a ...

Article - Nury Vittachi - Jun 28 2014 - 10:23am