Technology

The Start of World War Zzzzzzz

A world food crisis brewing and we face a horrific future unless something can be done. ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jun 30 2014 - 6:31am

Walking Bio-Bots Powered By Muscle Cells

Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented command over their function.  The new bio ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 11:40am

Facebook Backlash Will Backfire On The Backlashers

Facebook is under fire again, this time not over privacy, but for finding that a news feed can affect users’ subsequent posts (and presumably, emotions).  Unfortunately, the indignant outrage threatens to harm the public more than Facebook’s original stud ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Jul 1 2014 - 5:54pm

Electric Vehicles Used To Cause, Measure Pollution In Leicester

Today, scientists from the University of Leicester are driving the streets in electric vehicles (EV’s) fitted with specialized air monitoring sensors, with the intention of measuring the extent of air pollution in city environments.  Where do electric vehi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:34am

Bold Advances Bring Risk- Even With Rapid Surgical Innovation

Medicine is advancing rapidly and it always has risks, but in early going the risks are going to be greater. A paper found that the risk of patient harm increased two-fold in 2006, the year when teaching hospitals nationwide embraced the pursuit of minima ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:30pm

IBM Wants To Manage Big Data For The Internet Of Things- What It Means For Science 2.0

IBM takes data seriously, as seriously as they took Business Machines back in their early days. They want to be the resource for the blanket concept of The Internet Of Things. Someone will have to do it, because the amount of information available today is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 3 2014 - 3:29pm

Beyond Bayes: What Data-Driven Analysis Could Mean For Sports- And Science 2.0

So the USA lost to Belgium in the World Cup elimination round. I predicted a win for the US for a simple reason- Belgium, I said, does not know how good it is, whereas the US does.  That's fuzzy logic, right? Well, that is what a lot of sports analysi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 3 2014 - 3:34pm

The European Commission And Science 2.0 Want You To Shape The Future Of Science

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on Science 2.0 in order to gauge the trend towards a more open, data-driven and people-focused way of doing research and innovation.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 12:14pm

CDNA Microarray On A Chip For Rapid Detection Of Dengue Fever

Researchers at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) in Mexico have developed a cDNA microarray chip that allows detection of the RNA strand of the dengue fever virus. The genetic information pinpoints the exact serotype of malaria that ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 10:26am

PandaX Dark Matter Experiment Has Nothing To Report

The PandaX experiment of China is located in a deep underground laboratory, shielded by 2,400 meters of low radioactive rocks to provide protection for PandaX against cosmic muons. It began operation in March but has no results yet, so they published a te ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 10:00am