Technology

Blood Test For Alzheimer's Gets Closer

There are 10 proteins in the blood which can predict the onset of Alzheimer's and that means there may be a blood test for the disease on the horizon. Proteomics company Proteome Sciences plc and King's College London examined over individuals f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 12:04am

6 Cases Of Science 2.0: Where Big Data Can Help Health Care, It Can Help Research

For good or bad, the Affordable Care Act- Obamacare- is making electronic health records ubiquitous.That means the sheer quantity of clinical data that will become available for research and analytic purposes will skyrocket. The possibility for clinical a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 7:25pm

How To Help Kids With Cognitive Disabilities: Have Them Teach A Robot To Play Angry Birds

One possible future in the therapy of children with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities could involve the popular Finnish game "Angry Birds"- and a robot. Georgia Institute of Technology recently paired a small humanoid robot with an Android ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 4:26pm

Genome Editing Brings Possibility Of Gene Therapies Closer To Reality

Researchers have evaluated the safety and reliability of the existing targeted gene correction technologies, and successfully developed a new method, TALEN-HDAdV, which could significantly increased gene-correction efficiency in human induced pluripotent ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 11:30am

Drones Are Not Just For The White House- They Can Help Photographers Too

Though drones have gotten a bad rap lately due to an overzealous American government obsessed with using technology to control the message, they will soon have benefits in the private sector outside bird's eye views of fireworks. Take photography. Li ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 5:30am

Text Messages From The ER Can Reduce Binge Drinking

Imagine getting this text message when you are at the pub tonight: "Looking forward to seeing you at 2 AM- General Hospital". Creepy, but it may work.  Young adults who screened positive for a history of hazardous or binge drinking reduced their ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2014 - 10:12am

England Football Can Still Win In Brazil- The Robot World Cup

Though England football fans stopped singing "Three Lions" after the second game of the opening round at World Cup 2014, there is still hope to bring back hardware: in robotics. The University of Hertfordshire’s robot football team, the ‘Bold Hea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 5:01pm

Women With Sexy Social Media Photos Seen As Less Competent- Psychologists

Young women who post sexy or revealing photos on social media sites are regarded by female peers as less competent to perform tasks, less physically attractive and less socially attractive, a new study indicates. "This is a clear indictment of sexy s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 9:24pm

The Big Data Problem Will Also Be A Problem For Science 2.0

George Dyson. Credit: edge.org If you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: "Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.&qu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2014 - 11:33am

What Google Trends Reveals About Republican And Democrat Climate Change Concerns

Is it true that you can discern how someone votes based on their Google search history related to science and health issues? It seems to be so, in a majority of cases. Republicans search for information about the weather, climate change and global warming ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 1:15pm