Technology

Tech blurbs: Large Hadron Collider update, Artificial Intelligence evolves

Wondering what's going on with the LHC, or whether AI will ever evolve? Wonder no more. LHC decision expected Monday: A final decision on the exact date to switch it back on is expected following a meeting on Monday. CERN researchers have been in talk ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 8 2009 - 10:18pm

StumbleUpon Partnership, Darwin Day And The Return of the Author Index

There are some big things happening this week so I will just take a minute to fill everyone in.   Of course, you must know by now Darwin Day is tomorrow and we are doing everything we can to boost understanding and acceptance of evolution by hosting a comm ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2009 - 7:15pm

Feature Frequency Profiles- What Works For Shakespeare Can Work For Genomes

What does uncovering the true authorship of plays attributed to Shakespeare have to do with identifying our genetic ancestors or classifying new life forms? All involve the comparative analysis of long sets of data and all will benefit from a unique new an ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2009 - 8:04pm

Want To Write A Real 'Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? Here's How

How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a central “peanut” bulge?  How about a galactic merger?   You won't need a towel to write an astronomical 'Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy', just a computer.    Answers to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2009 - 6:17pm

Forensic Science System Needs An Overhaul, Say Groups

A congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council finds serious deficiencies in the nation's forensic science system and calls for major reforms and new research. Rigorous and mandatory certification programs for forensic scientists ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2009 - 3:23pm

IPoint 3D- Your Next Remote Control Device Could Be Your Fingers

Maybe you just want to wait until you can control television with your thoughts or even have it beamed directly into your brain but if you don't mind interim steps, and won't feel vaguely silly with two hands pointed at a screen, the iPoint 3D ma ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2009 - 12:27pm

MyCode Seeks To Be A BioBank For Personalized Medicine

People differ from one another in millions of ways. For starters, there is eye color, hair color, body build, and tendencies toward certain diseases and conditions. We know that genes determine these differences. Now, we also are learning that genes affect ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2009 - 1:48pm

Can Science Blogging Help Clear Up The Patent Application Backlog?

Experts in intellectual property and patents write in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation that tools such as online social networking could be used to eradicate the enormous backlog of patent applic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2009 - 12:53pm

DNA, Cheerios And Laziness: Self-Assembly And Information Storage

The universe is a lazy place.  If a system of particles can find a way exist in a lower-energy state, you’d better believe that the system will seek it out.  A group of researchers from Amherst and Berkeley are capitalizing on this universal tendency towar ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Feb 25 2009 - 7:40pm

The World's Smallest Periscope Is The Width Of A Human Hair

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented what is basically the world's smallest periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. The researchers have officially dubbed these devices "mirrored ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2009 - 2:30pm