Technology

Net Generation: Z And Millennials Think They Use Technology Without Losing Productivity. Actually...

Millennials, the first "Net Generation," say they can use many technologies simultaneously, masterfully switching from emails to instant messaging, app notifications, RSS feeds, and rants on Twitter much better than older generations. Maybe they ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2019 - 3:24pm

This Snake Crawls Through The Brain’s Blood Vessels- And That's A Good Thing

To clear blood clots in the brain, doctors often perform an endovascular procedure, where a surgeon inserts a thin wire through a patient’s main artery, usually in the leg or groin. Guided by a fluoroscope that simultaneously images the blood vessels using ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2019 - 11:58am

Precision Electronic Medicine And The Future Of Mind Control

Implanted brain electrodes can help alleviate symptoms of tremors like with Parkinson's disease but current probes face limitations due to their size and inflexibility. Neurotechnology may be on the verge of a major renaissance and mesh electronics co ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2019 - 12:57pm

Get Ready For Phyjama- A Pajama That Can Monitor Heart And Respiration While You Sleep

At the Ubicomp 2019 conference,University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate students Ali Kiaghadi and S. Zohreh Homayounfar debuted health-monitoring sleepwear they call "phyjamas." The electronically active garments contain unobtrusive, portable ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2019 - 12:00pm

Let Skynet Deal With Invasive Species

This fall we will get a new "Teminator" movie, marking 35 years that a dystopian nightmare about robots taking over and killing us all has been front and center in pop culture awareness.  The dystopian nightmare may happen to fish first. Swimming ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2019 - 10:36am

Omnicide, Accelerating Modernity- How Preventing Disaster Using Scientific Progress Puts Us At Risk

Our present moment is characterized by a growing obsession with the long term. The study of climate change, for example, relies on increasingly long-range simulations. Science’s predictions are no longer merely hypotheses for validation or invalidation bu ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 18 2019 - 4:20pm

Online Tool Helps International Students Calculate GPA

NEW YORK, November 4 /PRNewswire/-- International students now have an online tool that can quickly and accurately convert their non-US grades and calculate their grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale, the WES iGPA Calculator. More and more, higher edu ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 25 2019 - 1:45pm

Can Hauntings Be Verified By Science?

It may begin as a feeling of unease that overtakes you as you cautiously make your way inside a long-abandoned house.  The air is thick; musty and stale.  Yet somehow it is laced with the underlying scent  of a burning fire… even though the cold crumbling ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Oct 8 2019 - 9:45pm

Cancer And Vampires: An Evolutionary Tale

A new Internet tool that will allow any investigator, physician or patient to analyze genes according to their evolutionary profile and find associated genes. It combines genomics and informatics to enables the rapid, cost-free identification of genes resp ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2019 - 10:14pm

In Car Crash Scenarios, Self-Driving Cars Will Put The Many Ahead Of The Few

Self-driving cars are the future. Some day our grandchildren will look back on today and be baffled that we ever debated about whether or not to save hundreds of thousands of lives per year. Yet crashes will still happen, and there is a debate about how th ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2019 - 9:13am