Technology

Sound Waves Instead Of X-Rays For Diagnosing Minor Fractures

A study of portable ultrasound in detecting the presence of minor fractures in patients showed that 85% of patients with a fracture confirmed by X-ray had injuries detected through ultrasonography. You'd still want a radiographer to rule out fractures ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2015 - 3:30pm

GoldenGATE And XML Markup Can Give New Life To Old Taxonomic Data

A new paper demonstrates how XML markup using GoldenGATE can address the challenges presented by unstructured legacy data, like those presented in the widely used PDF format.  The paper demonstrates how structured primary biodiversity data can be extracted ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2015 - 1:20pm

Light-Emitting Fork Created Using Spray-On Technology

Light-emitting diodes are the future, and will quickly bypass government-mandated and subsidized compact fluorescent bulbs and the prospect of wearing a Haz-Mat suit if you break one. Why be limited to bulbs, though? Why not a light-emitting fork?  Physici ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2015 - 9:28am

Machine Learning And Big Data Is Changing Sports

The drive to improve performance means elite sport is inundated with data from wearable technologies such as GPS, computer vision and match statistics. So professional clubs are constantly on the lookout for tools that can help turn these data into usable ...

Article - The Conversation - May 18 2015 - 5:52pm

Google maps racist results target not only African Americans but Italians, Jewish, Polish, and Arab as well.

G oogle Maps searches for the words "Nigger House" will bring up a map pin pointing the white house and the underground railroad museum in Chicago.  Searches for racial and ethnic slurs on other groups produce MORE questionable results.   In fac ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 20 2015 - 11:59am

New Antibody Insecticide Targets Malaria Mosquito

Malaria is a disabling disease that targets victims of all ages, it kills one child every minute. DDT is quite effective, and insecticide-treated bed nets also, but the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is developing resistance to insecticides su ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2015 - 8:53am

Facebook’s Instant Articles App May Mean The End Of The Media Paywall

Ubiquitous social media giant Facebook announced has launched a mobile app called Instant Articles. The app allows news stories provided by a number of partners to be read in their entirety by iPhone users. Those who download the app will spared the incon ...

Article - The Conversation - May 21 2015 - 4:45pm

Rotating Or Mixing? Science Determines The Best Way To Slow Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

Though the popular imagery of farming is a small family operation on a tiny patch of land, that isn't really the case. Over 90 percent of American farms are run by families but they are high-tech operations. Farmers want yields to go up and costs to ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2015 - 9:15am

AI: Trial And Error Empowers Reinforced Learning In Robot

Researchers have developed algorithms that enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error, using a process that more closely approximates the way humans learn. They demonstrated their technique, a type of reinforcement learning, by having a rob ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2015 - 9:27am

Editorial Independence Or Extortion? Frontiers Sacks 31 Editors

Like organic food, open access publishing has shrouded itself in a cultural halo, but it's still a business. No one is pumping out 40,000 articles per year, most of them with just a few check boxes called 'editorial review', because the 40,0 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 26 2015 - 4:38pm