Technology

"Science Spore?"

I came across this interesting forum on Spore. I hope SpongB6F1 won't mind if I quote this posting at length, as I think it is very insightful. "Science Spore" would be ideal.... I think many people will claim that although some kind of abst ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 26 2008 - 12:50pm

Rosetta Genomics Leverages Its MicroRNA Platform Technologies To Launch Plant Biotech Initiative

Rosetta Genomics Ltd (Nasdaq:ROSG), a developer of microRNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics, announced today it has launched Rosetta Green, a microRNA-based plant biotechnology project. Rosetta Green will leverage the extensive knowledge gained at Rose ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2008 - 12:50am

Mini 11- World's Smallest Mass Spectrometer Sniffs Out Bioterrorism And Explosives

Researchers in Indiana have completed development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), the Mini 11, a miniature version of a standard lab device (some of which would dominate a living room)  to identify tiny amounts of chemicals in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 12:04pm

Welcome To The Digital Dark Ages

If we gave you data from NASA's 1976 Viking landing on Mars, could you read it?   No, and neither can anyone else.   Some of the data collected is already unreadable and lost forever.  According to the National Archives Web site, by the mid-1970s only ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 4:05pm

Sneakey- A Picture Of A Key Is Now Worth A Thousand Locksmiths

UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. "We built our key duplication software system to show people th ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2008 - 5:35pm

Be The Beatles- Legendary Pop Icons Get Their Own Video Game For The First Time

Can't get enough of The Beatles?   Two days ago we disclosed that a mathematician using Fourier transform had unlocked the secret of the 'mystery' chord in "A Hard Day's Night" and now The Beatles are back again- in a video g ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2008 - 11:31am

Big In Japan- An Analysis Of The Best Countries For A Tech Product Launch

BETHLEHEM, PA (October 31, 2008)—A new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States finishin ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2008 - 11:39am

Biohit Launches New Quick Tests For Fecal Occult Blood

HELSINKI, November 3 /PRNewswire/-- Biohit is extending its range of diagnostic tests for gastrointestinal diseases with ColonView Hb and Hb/Hp quick tests, which are intended to aid early diagnosis and prevention of colorectal cancer. ColonView testing c ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 2 2010 - 11:55am

Is This AFS Trinity 150 MPG SUV Being Suppressed By The Auto Industry?

AFS Trinity Power Corporation today announced it pulled its 150 MPG plug-in hybrid SUV prototypes out of the LA Auto Show but will independently exhibit and demonstrate the super fuel-efficient vehicles on their own elsewhere in downtown LA during the sho ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2008 - 4:59pm

GenomPort- Exploring The Human Genome Google Maps Style

The Data Management Group (DAMA-UPC), led by Josep Lluís Larriba, has designed a system for searching for information in a network or graph that can complement Internet search engines and is of special interest to biomedicine, social networks, the Internet ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2008 - 10:14am