Technology

Inserting Computers Into The Heart Of Medicine, Without Losing Doctor Souls

The examination room computer promises safer, more efficient and more effective patient care. But exam room computing is challenging and there is growing evidence that it can be a threat to patient safety and detrimental to good relationships and health o ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2015 - 11:48am

Secrets Of 19th Century Fashion Revealed By Science

The dye business of the 19th century was a mature, fast-moving and international industry, according to an analysis of four purple dresses. The study found that a brand new purple dye went from first synthesis to commercial use in just a few years. Before ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2015 - 9:30am

Slacktivists Do Matter- At Least On Twitter

If you think you really made a difference by overlaying your Facebook profile with a French flag, take 10 seconds to sign an online petitition or retweet a celebrity who matches your beliefs about science, you are a "slacktivist"- an activist wh ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2015 - 2:03pm

How NOT To Write An E-Book

My new book came out on Amazon yesterday, and as I breath a long sigh of relief, I'm reflecting on how I reached that milestone and how technology made it both easier and more difficult to achieve. If you are a writer looking to self-publish an eBook ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Dec 7 2015 - 10:49pm

Jubilee Plastic Bag

A day or two ago, local ITV featured a news item about a man who had kept the same plastic bulk issue shopping carrier bag for 34 years, using it from time to time. The bag celebrated 50 years since the first Tesco store was opened in 1929, and he had acq ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 9 2015 - 5:41am

Call Me Muad'Dib: Generator Uses Urine To Power Wireless Transmitter

A pair of socks embedded with miniaturized microbial fuel cells and fueled with urine pumped by the wearer's footsteps has powered a wireless transmitter to send a signal to a PC., the first self-sufficient system powered by a wearable energy generat ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2015 - 11:50am

2015, The Year CRISPR Went Mainstream

If you are in science, the genome editing method called CRISPR  is not new, it has been all the rage since 2012 because of its superior ability of CRISPR to deliver a gene to the right spot compared to its genome editing competitors. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2015 - 12:03pm

Driverless Cars: Teaching Machines To See

Two newly-developed driverless cars systems can identify a user's location and orientation in places where GPS does not function, and identify the various components of a road scene in real time on a regular camera or smartphone, performing the same ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2015 - 8:00am

Wikidata For Research- Wiki4R Is Another Attempt At Open Science

Almost 10 years ago, we created the Science 2.0 movement, which was geared toward modernizing science collaboration, publication, communication and participation. And then...not much changed. Science is, at its heart, competitive and there is no benefit f ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2015 - 3:55pm

For 2016, Social Robots Unveiled

Nadine, a friendly human-like robot at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore will greet you back and shake your hand. Unlike conventional robots, the inventors say Nadine has her own personality, mood and emotions, and the next time you meet her, s ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2016 - 1:27pm