Technology

SONAR 2013: Acoustic Remote Bomb Detection

A new paper describes an acoustic remote bomb detection system that can identify homemade bombs and determine the difference between those that contain low-yield and high-yield explosives. A number of different tools are currently used for explosives dete ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 11:06am

700 Percent Infrastructure Increase: How Google Boosted Search Speeds From A Year Ago

In the past year, Google search has dramatically increased the speed of search results, not that you would notice, since they were already quite fast. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 10:54am

Phylo: Crowdsourcing Genomic Research

Over the past three years, 300,000 gamers have helped scientists with genomic research by playing Phylo, an online puzzle game that is a cross between Tetris, Rubik's cube and an old-fashioned sliding-tile puzzle game. As gamers line up colored recta ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 11:24am

Glucose Testing: Measuring Blood Sugar In Skin Cells Light

Living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes means constant awareness of blood glucose (sugar) levels to ensure they remain stable. People do this at home using electronic devices that read sugar levels in a tiny drop of blood but a team of German researchers h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2013 - 8:22am

PubMed Commons: Post-Publication Peer Review Goes Mainstream

I have written a lot about how I think the biggest problem in science communication today is the disproportionate value we place on where papers are published when assessing the validity and import of a work of science, and the contribution of its authors ...

Article - Michael Eisen - Oct 30 2013 - 8:00am

SORT-OUT VI Trial Results

Both drug-eluting stents (DES) with biocompatible polymers and DES with biodegradable polymers were associated with low major adverse coronary events, demonstrating the non-inferiority of the biocompatible polymer stents in patients undergoing percutaneou ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2013 - 9:00am

Rise Of The Machines- AI Can Play Angry Birds Like A Human

A  team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has won an international artificial intelligence competition by creating software that can play the famous video game "Angry Birds" like a human. If you have never seen "Angry Birds”, the g ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2013 - 12:05pm

Now Broadcasting From The Moon At Laser Speeds

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was launched in early September and arrived in orbit around the Moon in October. Its mission is to probe the Moon’s environment but it’s also carrying an interesting piece of technology- a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2013 - 11:26am

Singularity Update: New Transistor Mimics The Behavior Of A Synapse

The world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines and the human brain is staggering in its own right; putting a brain's information into CDs would require a skyscraper full of them and, unlike MP3s, there ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2013 - 11:06am

Minority Report Future: Computer Model Anticipates Burglary Hot Spots

A new computer model says it can predict, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur. Using the model developed by a University of California Riverside sociologist Prof. Robert Nash Parker, the Indio police department in souther Californi ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2013 - 10:57am