Technology

Elective Surgery- How Reliable Is Website Information?

The Internet is a powerful resource can may help patients make informed treatment decisions but the quality of the content on health-related Web sites is not rigorously monitored and studies have shown that some Web sites present inaccurate information. Mo ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2008 - 4:40pm

Self-Deploying Sensors From Unmanned Helicopters Could Change Disaster Zones

Unmanned helicopters could soon be a key part of emergency relief operations, as well as bringing a new dimension to filmmaking, thanks to innovative work done by European researchers. When natural disasters happen one of the first casualties is often the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2008 - 1:07am

Science 2.0 Gets A Version 2.0

If you've been around Science 2.0 for a while, you may notice something different this weekend. We've gone through a bit of a makeover.  After 21 months, some 30,000 articles and a difficult to guess number of tens of millions of readers, someth ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 27 2011 - 12:41pm

Fashion 2.0- Smart Fabrics Are The New Prius

Smart fabrics and intelligent textiles – material that incorporates cunning molecules or clever electronics – is thriving and European research efforts are tackling some of the sector’s toughest challenges.  Clothes that monitor your heart, measure the ch ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2008 - 2:26am

Titan 80-300 Cubed: The World's Most Advanced Microscope Goes To School

The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet—capable of unprecedented resolution—has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University. Introduced last year, it is called the Titan 80-300 Cubed- “c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2008 - 1:06pm

Biometric Encryption- Using Only Pictures From Your Mobile Phone

Phones can do almost anything these days- photos, music, television- but safely protecting biometric data is something new.   Ileana Buhan, a PhD student at the University of Twente, has been researching this new way of employing biometrics. She receives h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 8:44pm

'Organic' Electronics: Self-Assembling Wires May Mimic Human Tissue

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by org ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2008 - 12:52pm

I'd love to go paperless

Spending all day reading from a computer monitor is a drag. By the end of the day reading from a monitor drives me crazy, which means that I end up printing out hard copies of way too many papers. Amazon's Kindle looks like an intriguing solution, but ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 23 2008 - 3:41pm

Bite Splint Wirelessly Lets Paraplegics Play Piano With The Foot Pedals

A wish could come true for paraplegics who play the piano and are paralyzed from the hips down: Heidelberg researcher Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Rupp has developed a method with which a pianist can operate the right pedal of a concert grand wirelessly – a first in t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2008 - 10:22am

My favourite games

One of the reasons I was interested in giving some comments on the science in Spore is that I am a big fan of video games but rarely have a chance to play anymore. The discussion about Spore (which I wasn't asked to evaluate as a game per se) got me t ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 25 2008 - 7:13pm