Technology

A Scientific Prediction

Six months form here, there won't be a single whatsapp user in the world. Why? Because Telegram exists. References:  http://www.whatsapp.com/, https://telegram.org/ PS: Of course I might be wrong. Whatsapp could be dead in five months:) PS2: I had an ...

Blog Post - Paolo Ciafaloni - Feb 22 2015 - 7:45pm

Radio Chip For The Internet Of Things: New Transmitter Reduces Off-State Leakage 100X

The Internet of Things is Web 2.0 of 2004 or Big Data of 2013- a great buzzword that marketing groups are trying to exploit by rebranding what already exists. But the promise, the idea that everything in the human environment, from kitchen appliances to in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2015 - 9:00am

Social Networks May Save College Radio

The demise of radio has been predicted for 70 years, but it is still going strong- it is just more consolidated than it was in the past. Even college radio which, thanks to taxpayers, isn't under the same financial pressure as the corporate kind, has ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2015 - 12:03pm

7 Ways To Make Your Science Video Popular On YouTube

Hundreds of hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and hundreds of millions of hours are viewed daily, including many that cover areas of science. Despite this, if you want to use YouTube for science communication, reaching an audience is no ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 27 2015 - 8:30am

Science 2.0: Node Prominence Profile And Degree Centrality In Networks

Centrality and nodes are an important concept in the theory of social networks. Centrality of an individual- a "node" in network theory- measures its relative importance within a network, and a recent paper in Scientific Reports studies the probl ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2015 - 1:36pm

The BBC Must Wake Up To New Media Realities

Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety. Wikimedia My advice to the BBC: ignore the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee report on your future at your peril. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 28 2015 - 11:11pm

Intranasal Radiology Treatment Breaks The Migraine Cycle

After an interventional radiology intranasal treatment, migraine patients report using less pain-relief medicine for headaches, according to a paper at the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting. Clinicians used a treatment ca ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2015 - 10:05am

Synthetic Biology: New Method Makes Protein Engineering More Accessible

Deep in the heart of synthetic biology are the proteins that make it tick and that is why protein engineering is crucial to the new discipline: Scientists grow, harvest, and reprogram proteins to become new drug therapeutics, environmentally friendly fuels ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2015 - 2:00pm

SoftwareX- Scientific Software Gets A Peer Reviewed Canonical Journal

Though the public imagery of science is lab coats and test tubes, less well-known is the role of software development in science. It is often the case that tools don't really exist to do some of the things that need to be done, but after the hard wor ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2015 - 4:40pm

In Cancer Screening, How Much Over-Detection Is Acceptable?

How much overdetection is acceptable in cancer screening? A UK survey discussed in The BMJ this week affirms what we always knew, that responses are all over the map, depending on how the questions are framed. The article is part of a series on over-detect ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2015 - 9:00am