Technology

How Wind Turbines Work- A Legal Perspective

How Wind Turbines Work- A Legal Perspective If you want to know how a wind turbine works you may visit Wikipedia or the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  You would not normally look for scientific information on a case law web site, but t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 19 2017 - 1:29pm

Nanoscience: 5 Ways Science Fiction Is Becoming Science Fact

Russian author Boris Zhitkov wrote the 1931 short story Microhands, in which the narrator creates miniature hands to carry out intricate surgeries. And while that was nearly 100 years ago, the tale illustrates the real fundamentals of the nanoscience rese ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2017 - 9:34pm

How To Get Good At Games, Without Practicing For 10,000 Hours

Data from online video games has been used to study what kinds of practice and habits help people acquire skill. Basically, what does it take to get good? 10,000 hours, as Malcom Gladwell said? Nope, not even close. But there are reasons why some people a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2017 - 1:26pm

What 92 Percent Of NYT Cookbooks Fail To Tell You

Cookbooks are popular. Cookbooks are instructional. But they are woefully lacking information about a vital thing- food safety. An analysis of 1,497 recipes from 29 cookbooks that appeared on the New York Times best sellers list for food and diet books, a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2017 - 3:03pm

Bee Science Could Help Dismantle Terrorist Networks

A new bio-inspired algorithm seems to use the social behavior of bee colonies, which allows them to attack in an optimal way, could help dismantle social networks linked to organized crime, jihadist terrorism, or facilitate the design of vaccination strate ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2017 - 10:42am

Hand That Sees Is 10X Quicker Than Current Prosthetics

Prosthetics may look better but they have not really changed much in the last 100 years. That could soon change. The next generation of hand prosthetics may be far more like a real hand- they could allow the wearer to reach for objects almost automatically ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2017 - 2:23pm

3-D Printed Bioprosthetic Ovaries Produce Healthy Offspring

Ovaries constructed of 3-D printed scaffolds that house immature eggs were successful in boosting hormone production and restoring fertility by actually ovulating- and they produced healthy offspring which mothers also were able to nurse.  By removing a fe ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2017 - 9:39am

All Robots Are Unpredictable

The heads of more than 100 of the world’s top artificial intelligence companies are very alarmed about the development of “killer robots”. In an open letter to the UN, these business leaders – including Tesla’s Elon Musk and the founders of Google’s DeepM ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 25 2017 - 11:49am

WPA2 Flaw Means Almost Every Phone, PC and Router Is At Risk

A vulnerability in the common WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol means practically every device that connects to a router (which is just about all of them) can be exploited to reveal access to credit card information, passwords and more. The Key Reinstallation A ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 28 2017 - 9:12am

MeeToo and #MeToo an unfortunate app name. Weinstein a real life Hedonism bot

#MeToo is a movement started by Alyssa Milano which is raising awareness of sexual harassment... ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 17 2017 - 1:46pm