Technology

Partly Wrong With A Chance Of Being Right: Why Are Weather Forecasts Still So Inaccurate?

The night before the famous "Raid at Entebbe" in 1976, when the Israel Defense Forces rescued over 100 kidnapped hostages from German and Palestinian terrorists at Entebbe airport in Uganda, Tel Aviv University's Prof. Pinhas Alpert, then he ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2015 - 11:11am

Carhacking: Computerized Vehicles Are More Vulnerable Than Ever

Who's really driving your car? Saad Faruque, CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith, The Open University and Blaine Price, The Open University ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 27 2015 - 9:30am

Fight Cybercrime With Smarter Habits

Wise advice. Julia Wolf, CC BY-NC-SA By Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 28 2015 - 8:30am

The Female Enigmas Of 1940s Bletchley Park Inspire Those Of Today

Jean Valentine, a bombe operator at Bletchley in the 1940s. Rui Vieira/PA By Bryony Norburn, University of Buckingham ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 29 2015 - 8:30am

Wine Production- Now With More Robots!

A European consortium is developing an unmanned robot equipped with non-invasive advanced sensors and artificial intelligence systems which will help manage vineyards. The robot will be able to provide reliable, fast and objective information on the state ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 3:00pm

Science 2.0: Can Large-Scale Analytics Predict Major Societal Events?

Can big data analytics predict population-level societal events such as civil unrest or disease outbreaks? That is the subject of a two-year analysis of the Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) system. The usefulness of this predic ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 2:15pm

Noroviruses Could Soon Be Killed With A Hand-Held Cold Plasma Pistol

I am a firm believer that physics is the One Science To Rule Them All and can accomplish almost anything, but I had not predicted that the "fourth state of matter"- non-thermal plasma- could show immunology how it's done and kill off norovi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2015 - 9:00am

Better Forecasting Of The Flu, Using Big And Traditional Data

Three researchers say they can predict the spread of flu a week into the future with as much accuracy as Google Flu Trends can display levels of infection right now.  The study in Scientific Reports uses social network analysis and combines the power of G ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 4:46pm

Science 2.0: Public Buy-In- And Penalties For Misuse- Essential For Big Data Success

Public participation will have to be at the heart of big data projects in health care and biomedical research and a new report calls for greater transparency about how people's data are used. The report warns that if people's preferences and valu ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 8:00pm

Life On A Chip: Transparent Shell A Step Closer To Embryo On A Chip Technology

In the two decades existence of lab-on-a-chip (LOC), there have been lots of individual systems developed, ranging from lung-on-a-chip and heart-on-a-chip to the liver-on-a-chip and kidney-on-a-chip- but an ideal embryo-on-a-chip has eluded science because ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 9:32am