Technology

Chameleon Guitar Can Be Any Wood You Want

Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of control to manipulate the characteristics of an instru ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2009 - 8:58pm

'Personalized Genome' Sequencing Finds Gene Mutation Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used "personalized genome" sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a mutation in a gene calle ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2009 - 3:26pm

Playmancer- Serious Games That Would Make William Gibson Proud

Gamers caught an early glimpse of the future of serious games aimed at the health sector during the PlayMancer project’s demos at the latest Vienna Science Fair.   The European PlayMancer project is working hard to improve the technology for serious game e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2009 - 12:43pm

Babylolly.com- Yes, It's Facebook For Babies

Having a bad 2009?  It's only going to get worse when those printing presses they use to make more money finally break down.   But there is always a bright spot on dark days; babies.   ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2009 - 10:40am

Send your Scientific Blogging cool science T-shirt ideas

We have an outstanding graphic design intern who just started so we're going to have T-shirts made for each category rather than just the generic one with the logo.   If you have ideas for cool science-related and/or funny t-shirts that just need a ca ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2009 - 6:34pm

User Clickstreams Lead To A 'Map Of Science'

While science is of tremendous societal importance, it is difficult to probe the often hidden world of scientific creativity. Most studies of scientific activity rely on citation data, which takes a while to become available because both the cited publicat ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2009 - 12:36pm

Bumper Cars Plus Basketball On Steroids Equals Awesome Robotics Competition

Sixty-one teams from Southern California, Arizona, Brazil and Chile faced off in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition on March 13 and 14. JPL sponsored nine of the schools in this annual engineering and technology contest held at the Long Be ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2009 - 9:28pm

Smart Windows Detect Suspicious Activity

A novel motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin could  enable window panes and glass doors to detect movements, thanks to a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 10:00am

When Micro-Cyborgs Attack!

Half-biological and half-synthetic, an army of thousands of wrecking balls are contained within Dr. Metin Sitti's Carnegie Mellon laboratory.  Once incited, they keep moving to the death.  They run on sugar.  And they can all be taken down by penicill ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Mar 20 2009 - 9:34am

"Feel" the movies with this new jacket

If I were Hugh Hefner, I'd be all over this company, trying to invest. Researchers from Philips Electronics are developing a vibrating jacket to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer’s emotional response to what the characters are experiencing ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 20 2009 - 10:43am