Technology

Molecular Atlas Of The Pancreas Produced

Researchers produced the first molecular map of the genes that are active in the various cells of the human pancreas. They have also revealed differences in genetic activity between people with type 2 diabetes and healthy controls.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2016 - 5:38am

Samsung Note 7 0.0002 Percent Lead to Total Recall.

A bout five phones out of 2.5 million replacemen t Samsung Note 7's caught fire according to Samsung and the CPSC.  That is less than one tenth of one percent.  Your odds of being hit by lightning on a sunny day are better than that.   Here is a simp ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 11 2016 - 7:10am

IPhone Lab Detects Cancer, May Lead To Instant Diagnosis

Researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on an iPhone 5 that can analyze several samples at once to catch a cancer biomarker, producing lab quality results. At a time when patients and medical professionals expect always faster results, r ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2016 - 10:00am

Who Is Trying To Destroy The Internet?

A prolonged Internet outage affecting major sites like Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and The New York Times on Friday has commentators concerned that this is was a practice run for future, more widespread disruption of the internet. The distributed denial of ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2016 - 7:00am

Do You Get The "Violet Or Purple" Blues?

Do you find that your camera is not registering violet correctly?  Flowers that are more violet in appearance are coming out blue, while some purple flowers come out all right.  In the picture below, the daisy and the pansy to the right appear more or less ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Dec 13 2016 - 2:26pm

Bioartificial Kidney On The Horizon

At ASN Kidney Week 2016 in Chicago, investigators showed progress toward creating a functional bioartificial kidney that could replace the need for dialysis or transplantation in the millions of patients with kidney failure. A key requirement for such a de ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2016 - 9:44am

Immersive 3-D VR Visualizations Of Unborn Babies

People may soon be able to watch their unborn babies grow in realistic 3-D immersive visualizations, thanks to new technology that transforms MRI and ultrasound data into a 3-D virtual reality model of a fetus. MRI provides high-resolution fetal and place ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2016 - 9:50am

Holograms And The Future That Never Came

Stereoscopes entertained every Victorian home with their ability to produce three-dimensional pictures. Typewriters and later fax machines were once essential for business practices. Photo printers and video rentals came and went from high streets. ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 24 2016 - 6:07am

Russian scientists increase DVD storage capacity million times

Russian scientists increase DVD storage capacity million times 01.12.2016 Pravda reports- ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 2 2016 - 8:42pm

The Consumer And Privacy Risks Of Fitbit

There remain a lack of safeguards built into the health-care system for fitness trackers. Personal health wearable devices that are used to monitor heart rates, sleep patterns, calories, and even stress levels have led to new privacy and security risks. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2016 - 1:34pm