Technology

Corticosteroid Drugs Used For Asthma Suppress Growth- Systematic Reviews

Corticosteroid drugs used in inhalers by children with asthma may suppress their growth, suggest two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library which focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. The authors fou ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 10:41pm

Birdsongs Decoded

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections, by using recordings of individual birds and of dawn choruses to identify characteristics of bird sounds. They took advanta ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 4:51pm

Mapping Environmental Effects On DNA One Cell At A Time

A new single-cell technique can help investigate how the environment affects our development and the traits we inherit from our parents. It can be used to map all of the 'epigenetic marks' on the DNA within a single cell,which will boost underst ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 11:18am

Using Twitter To Track Lady Gaga- Oh, And Flu

A site called Social Predictor (sociadictor.com) predicts future trends based on the number of tweets, sentiment of tweets, number of news stories and sentiment of the news stories about celebrities and culture. It can also try and predict stock prices or ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 2:30pm

Human Platelets Generated Using Bioreactor

Scientists have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets in vitro.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 2:00pm

Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Misidentification Of Humans As Machines Is Common In Turing Tests

At various times, Alan Turing was hailed as a brilliant cryptologist, leading a team of code breakers at Bletchley Park which cracked the German Enigma machine cypher during World War II, and then later as a gay martyr. Now, due to popular media accounts o ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 10:39am

Multi-Bit MRAM May Be Better Than Flash Memory

Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is intriguing because of demand for fast, low-cost, nonvolatile, low-consumption, secure memory devices. MRAM relies on manipulating the magnetization of materials for data storage rather than electronic charges, boast ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2014 - 12:42am

Science 2.0: Google Web Mining Can Help Neuroscientists Analyze Big Data

Facebook, Google and just about everyone except Science 2.0 use global distributed computers to mine your web history and learn everything about you to generate revenue. Big data is being led by marketing, like many things are, but early adopters who make ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 4:57pm

Universal Blood Test For Cancer Discovered?

Researchers from the University of Bradford say they have devised a simple blood test that will enable doctors to rule out cancer in patients presenting with certain symptoms, saving time and preventing costly and unnecessary invasive procedures such as c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 11:00am

Science 2.0: Network Modeling To Seek Out Misinformation Diffusion

If you read politics on Twitter, you would have recently seen that Republicans in the U.S. Congress are going to impeach President Obama if they get enough seats in November, so it is vital that Democrats win elections.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 1 2014 - 11:18am