Technology

COWL Web Privacy System Promises Safer Surfing

A team of engineers have built a new system that protects Internet users' privacy while increasing the flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from different web sites, dramatically improving the safety of surfing t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 7:24pm

Citizen Science Can Help Reduce Scientific Fraud And Cherry-Picking

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, is worried about the lack of reproducibility and 'secret sauce' in a large number of studies funded by their $30 billion government agency.  Fraud happens everywhere, as doe ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 11:12am

Science 2.0: 'Data Smashing' With An Algorithm Could Unshackle Automated Discovery

A little known secret in data mining is that simply feeding raw data into a data analysis algorithm is unlikely to produce meaningful results. From recognizing speech to identifying unusual stars, new discoveries often begin with comparison of data stream ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2014 - 7:00am

Well Latte Duh, Latte Duh.

For most of humanity's existence, our kind have worried about getting enough to eat. So we may see it as a good sign that now some of our species are worried about not getting organic milk in their lattes and frappes. "Where oh where shall I ever ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Oct 12 2014 - 12:30am

3-D Printer Creates Emergency Trachea Implant, Saves Baby's Life

By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) –   You've seen toys and prosthetics made on a 3-D printer but now, scientists are using 3-D printers to build implants that help babies breathe. Natalie Peterson, a parent of a child who was having ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 13 2014 - 10:20am

Do We Want An Augmented Reality Or A Transformed Reality?

We are only beginning to see what augmented reality can do. Credit: Flickr/ Karlis Dambra, CC BY By Nick Kelly, University of Southern Queensland ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 13 2014 - 3:08pm

Follow Your Oven On Twitter: A Common Interface For The Social Web Of Things?

A paper in the International Journal of Web-Based Communities suggests that the familiar interfaces of online social networking sites might be adapted to allow us to interact more efficiently with our networked devices such as cars, domestic appliances an ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 3:14pm

ACA Lessons Learned: Cost Of Enrollment High Due To Website Issues

Though lots of people used the expensive government health insurance portal healthcare.gov to get information on the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, far fewer could successfully use it to sign up. As the stories of its flaws mounted, larger pe ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2014 - 9:55am

Group Sequencing Means High-Speed Evolution In The Lab

DNA analysis has become increasingly cost-effective since the human genome was first fully sequenced in the year 2001. Sequencing a complete genome, however, still costs around $1,000 each so sequencing the genetic code of 100s of individuals would be exp ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 10:17am

New.Health Internet Domains Could Risk Public Health

Image credit:  Ph0neutria via shutterstock By: Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science (Inside Science) — Until last year, website designers had a choice of just 22 Internet domains to use as suffixes at the end of URLs, excluding country-specific ones. The fam ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 17 2014 - 5:35pm