Technology

Queering Of Robots Will Make Them Designed To Include The LGBTQ+ Community

In a new short paper in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, Roger A. Søraa from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and co-authors Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University in the Netherlands, and Adam Poulsen from Charles Stur ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2020 - 9:31am

Skeptical In Seattle: Valentine's Day Shows How Data Mining Can Arrive At An Accurate Yet Wrong Answer

I got an email from an analytics group pitching an article about Valentine's Day movie results.  It promised: "If you’re planning to celebrate Valentine’s Day by watching a romantic film you’ll probably end up watching Isn’t It Romantic, accordin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2020 - 3:04pm

Doomsday Dashboard Makes Tracking The Apocalypse Convenient

Cyber warfare, killer robots, biological pandemics due to mad scientists, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has grown since the old days of just figuring out how to kill nuclear power. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2020 - 2:49pm

Facebook Is A Huge Source Of Misinformation And Disinformation About Vaccines

Do you want to believe a mom with no credentials who opposes modern agriculture can keep your baby from getting autism?  Do you want to believe fracking will set your tap water on fire or that COVID-19 was caused by 5G cell phone service in Wuhan? There ar ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 12 2020 - 1:38pm

Baymax From Big Hero 6 May Soon Be A Real Thing

Soft robotics is a newer field, so no one is quite sure what to do with them, but sturdy softness could be useful in homes and workplaces where traditional robots could cause injury. Since they are squishy, they could be tools for disaster response. For no ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2020 - 4:37pm

Kids Not In School? Here Are 7 Fun Science Projects For Ages 3 To 15

If the kids are out of school and missing homework, or you're tired of them playing Fortnite, here are seven fun projects they can get involved with courtesy of the National Science Foundation. 1. Use on-the-go science tools to explore the world aroun ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2020 - 5:06pm

45 Minutes: Cepheid Gets Approval For First Point Of Care SARS-CoV-2 Test

Diagnostics company Cepheid has received emergency authorization from FDA for the first point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 test. Unlike existing tests, it can provide results in about 45 minutes, which means we have a better chance of reducing the spread of the viru ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 22 2020 - 12:29pm

Is Truthy Truthful Or Truthiness?

Imagine a site where the lead developer supported the Discovery Institute, the Tea Party, the Mitt Romney campaign, Greenpeace, Joe Mercola, Just Label It, and various other political activist and anti-science groups. Would you believe it was really neutra ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 18 2020 - 10:52am

During COVID-19, The Death Rate After Going On A Ventilator Is The Same As For Other Issues

COVID-19 has brought high levels of attention to coronavirus, which few outside the microbiology community had heard of even after two pandemics in 17 years, SARS and MERS. Terms like ventilators, respirators, and N95 masks were also less commonly thrown a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 23 2020 - 10:36am

Medicare Establishes Reimbursement Coding For Agendia's Breast Cancer Recurrence Test MammaPrint

Agendia, a molecular cancer diagnostics company, announced today that Palmetto GBA, California's Part B Medicare administrator, has established coding guidelines for the company's MammaPrint test. MammaPrint is Agendia's FDA-cleared breast ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 29 2020 - 11:42am