Technology

Computer Operates On Water Droplets

Welcome to a new way to manipulate matter.  Mixing computers and water typically is usually a bad idea but bioengineers at Stanford have built a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets. They used droplet fluid dynamics ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2015 - 8:57am

First Child Born To Woman Using Ovarian Tissue Frozen During Her Childhood

A case study reports on a young woman who gave birth to a healthy child after doctors restored her fertility by transplanting ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen while she was a child.  There have been reports of successful pregnancies after ov ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2015 - 10:53pm

SafeTraces: Biological Barcoding Could Contain Health Contamination Crises, So Why Is It Controversial?

Blue Bell Creameries has been battling a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak for the past five years. The potentially killer bacteria was found in ice cream served at a Kansas hospital and sold by retailers. Reports most recently are blaming plants in Alabama ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Jun 17 2015 - 8:30am

Tests To Gauge Genetic Risks For Prostate Cancer Becoming Feasible

Men with an elevated, genetically inherited risk for prostate cancer could be routinely identified with a simple blood or urine test, scientists at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente Northern California have concluded, potentially paving the way to be ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 6:00am

How Intrusive Are Face Recognition Technologies?

A telecommunications law academic in Australia has recommended for laws to be enacted criminalising the application of face recognition technology to visual images online that enable the identity of a person or people to be ascertained without their conse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 10:30am

3-D Printing Is Not Just Hype

A company in the Netherlands is building a bridge across a canal in Amsterdam using 3D-printing robots. It seems that such attention-grabbing headlines appear regularly to declare how 3D-printing is destined to revolutionize manufacturing of all kinds. If ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 22 2015 - 8:01am

Fitbit Handcuff: The Dark Side Of Wearable Fitness Trackers

You no longer have to look to science fiction to find the cyborg. We are all cyborgs now. Mobile phones, activity trackers, pacemakers, breast implants and even aspirins all act as biological, cognitive or social extensions and enhancements of our bodies ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 22 2015 - 10:00am

Markdown, Mobile-Friendly Web Sites, and eBooks

I write drafts on paper. It would be nice if the electronic versions of  documents looked similar to the drafts. It would be even better is the same  paper-like form could be used for a web site with all its menus and an eBook with all the chapters. In th ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 8 2015 - 10:39pm

Rapid Ebola Diagnostic Test Could Be Game Changer

A new test can accurately predict within minutes if an individual has Ebola  and is the first to show that a point-of-care EVD test is faster than and as sensitive as a conventional laboratory-based molecular method used for clinical testing during the re ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2015 - 7:44am

How To Make A Prosthetic Eye

A  small, highly skilled team at Moorfields Eye Hospital transform the lives of people who have lost their eyes to accidents and disease. Each year, they work with their clients to create around 1,400 customized, detailed prosthetics, many of which replace ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Jun 26 2015 - 10:00am