Technology

Reasonable network management

Back in December, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released a “Report and Order” specifying new rules related to network neutrality. The rules have since been challenged in court in separate suits by Verizon and Metro PCS. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Mar 4 2011 - 10:01am

Facing Down The Cyber-Zombies

BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The EU's 'cyber security' Agency, ENISA today published a comprehensive study on the botnet threat (networks of ordinary computers controlled by cybercriminals), and how to addres ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 8 2011 - 1:37am

Mendeley Launches $10,001 API Battle- Build An App To Make Science More Open

Mendeley, which bills itself as the world's largest crowd-sourced research database, today announced the Mendeley API Binary Battle, challenging developers to build an application on top of Mendeley's open database of over 70 million research pa ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2011 - 1:18pm

It's Rocket Science, I Tell You!

It's Rocket Science, I Tell You! The people of Libya are currently trying to give Gaddafi a rocket. A while back, Gaddafi gave his people a rocket. A british team is currently working on giving the record books a rocket. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 8 2011 - 11:16pm

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hail...nor wireless towers?

The weather is a formidable foe for all, save one- the United States Postal Service. Herodotus' words on the New York General Post Office near Penn Station often stand in as the unofficial USPS motto, and for the most part ring true regarding mail del ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 10 2011 - 12:15pm

Evolution- Survival Of The Luckiest- And Computing For Science

For years now the generic PC was getting somewhat cheaper and that was generally good for science. Lots of PCs are running or assisting in many different ways experiments and measurements in laboratories of many sorts. The generic PC could have been gettin ...

Article - Ladislav Kocbach - Mar 19 2011 - 6:44pm

Japan, Earthquakes, And The Role Of Social Media During A Crisis

Because of the time difference, many discovered the news of the Tohoku earthquake hours after the 9.0 magnitude tremor was recorded 81 miles off the Japanese East Coast- an earthquake so epic that the resulting tsunami reached across the Pacific and the c ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2011 - 6:18pm

New Cars May Not Be Lemons, They May Be Pineapples

You may have heard of a new car with lots of problems referred to as a 'lemon' but not all fruits are bad when it comes to automobiles.  S cientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plants in a new ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2011 - 1:07pm

Three Lessons From The Japanese Nuclear Disaster

The disaster at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, is still unfolding. It is still not ensured that the reactors will stay under the partial control achieved. The media keep downplaying the problems, focusing on any good news it can make ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 29 2011 - 8:05am

Scientists: You Don't Care Much About Open Access, Says Study

Open access, where scientists pay a fee to publish so that the public and other scientists can read the study for free, is a negligible issue to most scientists, according to a new research report in The FASEB Journal. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2011 - 9:53am