Technology

Making Smarter Smart Homes

The 21st century will be the century of the 'smart home', where your home and your portable technology all interact seamlessly with one another. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 7 2014 - 7:30am

Using GWAS To Find The Genetic Culprits That Drive Antibiotic Resistance

Researchers have developed a powerful new tool to identify genetic changes in disease-causing bacteria that are responsible for antibiotic resistance. The team looked at the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a bacterial species that causes 1.6 million d ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 5:33pm

Printable Origami Robot Even Folds Itself- Then Walks Away

For years, researchers at MIT and Harvard University have been working on origami robots — reconfigurable machines that can fold themselves into arbitrary shapes. In Science, they report their latest milestone, which is a robot made almost entirely from p ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 3:14pm

Science 2.0 Teams Up With Ora TV

Science 2.0, the future of science, has teamed up with Ora.TV, the future of television, for a joint marketing agreement. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 9 2014 - 10:02am

i-KAM Video Eyewear and the Free Music Archive

I went to the Indiana State Fair last Friday. Visited lots of exhibits and ate lots of great food. I also wanted to shoot some test POV (point of view) video with the i-KAM XTREME video eyewear. The i-KAM is a lower cost alternative to wearable video camer ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Aug 8 2014 - 12:25pm

10 Year Anniversary Of First Successful Craniopagus Conjoined Twins Operation

Formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre celebrated the 10th anniversary of their separation today with the medical team that successfully separated and cared for them at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM)- the first documented set ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2014 - 4:24pm

Soft Skills: New Tool Evaluates Bedside Manner Of Doctors

Given the choice between a great doctor and a nice doctor, most people would choose great, but for those who prefer nice, a new tool evaluates and helps medical residents improve their communication and other soft skills to become better doctors.  The stu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 5:30pm

To Look Authentic On Social Media, Fake It Up A Little?

Not popular on Twitter? You may think it's because you're too honest. Unless you are a celebrity, popularity instead seems to come from conforming to social norms and expectations, so science journalists will complain about Republicans a lot, en ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 10:58am

A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words- And Maybe 100,000 Other Pictures

A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes, meaning that a picture can tell a big story quickly, but what if it could also represent a hundred thousand other images?  New software seeks to tame the vast amount of visual data in the world by gene ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 9:00pm

Use Your Mobile Device As A Data Collection Tool- Since The NSA Does

If you want to do something more practical with your phone than playing Angry Birds and reading email you won't reply to until you get to a computer, researchers at U.C. Davis have created Easy Leaf Area, which allow users to accurately measure leaf ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 5:00am