Technology

The Snowmastodon Project

While expanding a reservoir in Snowmass Village, Colorado, construction workers stumbled upon a big bone. And then another, and another, and another.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2016 - 7:31am

Electric 'Batmobile' Shows Chinese Want To Be In The Supercar Market

Despite not actually having a car in production, the firm Faraday Future has headline-writers gushing about its “Tesla-killing supercar” – an all-electric car that looks like the Batmobile. There is no doubting that the FFZero1 concept car just unveiled a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 10 2016 - 8:30am

'Spermbots'- Motorized Artificial Insemination

Sperm that don't swim well rank high among the main causes of infertility but these cells may get a boost from motorized "spermbots" that can deliver poor swimmers-- that are otherwise healthy-- to an egg.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 12:38pm

Anti-GPS: New Smartphone App 'Hides' User Location

An app that blocks third parties from identifying an individual's location based on what they search for online received a "best paper" award at the recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) GLOBECOM Conference, Sympos ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 2:41pm

Is The Tungsten Bulb On Its Way Back?

In the last few days, there has been a spate of reports that the incandescent bulb is on its way back.  This relates to work by a group of authors at MIT plus one at Purdue University in Indiana, featured in a news report from MIT: A nanophotonic comeback ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 14 2016 - 5:22pm

New Recommendations On Life Sciences Reproducibility

No one expects much of the social sciences, so a heavy reliance on undergraduate psychology student surveys to draw conclusions and resulting lack of reproducibility is dismissed, but the National Institutes of Health is nearly half of the federal governm ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2016 - 8:58am

How Consumer Computational Search is Changing the Internet

I don't like using the term "consumer" because it implies an economic function of the searcher.  There is certainly an economy (exchange of value) in the Searchable Web Ecosystem but "consumers" are really "searchers".  I ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Jan 18 2016 - 4:50pm

Fitbit Extreme: Catching Heartbeats With Millimeter-Wave Radar From A Distance

Heartbeats can now be measured without placing sensors on the body, thanks to a new way to measure heartbeats remotely, in real time, and under controlled conditions with as much accuracy as electrocardiographs. The researchers say this will allow for the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2016 - 6:18am

New Method To Test For Antibiotic Susceptibility

A new method to determine if bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics within a few hours could slow the appearance of drug resistance and allow doctors to more rapidly identify the appropriate treatment for patients with life threatening bacterial infectio ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2016 - 8:30am

Smartphones May Increase Activity- If They Nag You To Move, Anyway

A small pilot study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that using smartphone reminders to prompt people to get moving may help reduce sedentary behavior. Prior papers have corrolated sedentary time to increased risk of breast, colorectal, o ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2016 - 2:01pm