Technology

Why Girls Are Less Interested In Computer Science: Classrooms Are Too 'Geeky'

Despite billions of dollars in outreach programs designed to lure women into computer programming, and companies mandating that more women be hired, most females would rather go into something involving people. Yet a new survey of 270 high school students ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2015 - 7:30am

Copters, Drones- Location Data Is Changing The World

Behind the success of the new wave of location based mobile apps taking hold around the world is digital mapping. Location data is core to popular ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, but also to companies such as Amazon or Domino’s Pizza, which a ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 3 2015 - 8:30am

We Need A Legal Definition Of Artificial Intelligence

When we talk about artifici al intelligence (AI) – which we have done lot recently, including my outline on The Conversation of liability and regulation issues – what do we actually mean? AI experts and philosophers are beavering away on the issue. But ha ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 3 2015 - 10:30am

Frankenmilk: Activists Turn On Lactose-Free Dairy Process

Twelve years ago, the inventors of the process that would lead to Fairlife milk engineered a process to "separate milk into its five key components – water, butterfat, protein, vitamins and minerals, and lactose." By then recombining the compone ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 8 2015 - 8:00am

Study: Compensation Does Not Lead To More Positive View Of Products

With all of the recent controversy about claims that Monsanto funding a plant biologist skewed discussion by scientists in their favor, and claims that organic PR companies strategically used anti-science activists at Mother Jones and the New York Times t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2015 - 2:50pm

Half Life Of Stories On Science 2.0

Taking Andy Warhol's quip, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes," (which seems, like so many quotations, to have been stolen or mis-attributed) as a point of departure, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi hypothesized that pe ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Sep 13 2015 - 9:40am

Humans Are Hard-Wired For Laziness

Every time you go to the gym to burn off those Dim Sum calories from the night before, your nervous system is subconsciously working against you. Researchers have found that our nervous systems are remarkably adept in changing the way we move so as to exp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2015 - 8:00am

Synthetic Biology Needs Safety Mechanisms

Targeted cancer treatments, toxicity sensors and living factories: synthetic biology has the potential to revolutionize science and medicine. But before the technology is ready for real-world applications, more attention needs to be paid to its safety and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2015 - 7:30am

Want To Invent Your Own Alar On Apples Scare? 3 Keys To Environmental Mobilization Through Social Networks

For environmental activists who want to use social networks to mobilize the public beyond the retweet, there are three keys to success, according to a paper by scholars ar Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and INGENIO, a joint center of the Universi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2015 - 7:46am

How Volkswagen Got Caught Cheating On Emissions By A U.S. Diesel Advocacy Group

Volkswagen has set aside €6.5 billion to cover the costs of the growing scandal over cheating on emissions tests in the US. Putting a number on the cost further down line will be far harder, however, as it is a crisis which calls into question the ethical ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2015 - 10:00am