Technology

A Design Revolution- Making Products Reliable Again

There was once a theory in manufacturing and business; 'planned obsolescence.'  If you didn't make products with limitations, no one would ever buy new ones. Then along came a bunch of Asian companies who made better products and American ma ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2009 - 9:44am

Eaten Alive: Massive Swarm Consumes Hopes

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Article - Heidi Henderson - Apr 30 2009 - 2:44pm

Nanofabrication Eats Bugs Like You For Breakfast

Cicadas might have used their wily prime number scheme to dodge 2 and 4 year predators, but what about a predator with continual exponential growth?  The microcircuitry industry has reliably doubled the density of transistors on a chip every 2 years, as ob ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Mar 31 2009 - 1:19pm

If You Can Never Hear In An Airport, These FFL Loudspeakers May Help

A groundbreaking new loudspeaker, less than 0.25mm thick, has been developed by University of Warwick engineers, it's flat, flexible, could be hung on a wall like a picture, and its particular method of sound generation could make public announcements ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2009 - 10:57am

Now Playing- Live Action Movie Of Individual Carbon Atoms

Can't wait for the next Star Trek movie?    Okay, this doesn't have Zoe Saldana but it's still pretty terrific-  the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal. Given that graphene,  single-layered sheets of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2009 - 12:41pm

Adam Qadmon, Meet Adam Robot: He Just Made His First Discovery

Scientists, this is your future research partner.    A 'Robot Scientist' named Adam has been created and the group behind it believe it is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. Adam is a computer system that ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2009 - 4:36pm

Want To Know What Other Science Bloggers Will Be Writing About In A Few Days? Then go...

On March 30th, Josh Witten told us about a new site, The Jenny McCarthy Body Count.  He's apparently not a fan of Jenny, no matter what she looks like.   I am not sure I understand that kind of thinking but whatever... On April 2nd, uber-blogger of Di ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 6 2009 - 8:35pm

Sun Dial- Mobile Phone App Alerts Muslims About Prayer Times

If you're a Muslim and you're worried that debating your NCAA March Madness championship tie-breaker scenarios at work will cause you to miss a prayer time... well, okay, you're not doing that because designing technological devices for rel ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 12:34am

A Seismic Shift In Earthquake Detection: Tracking Early Impact Through The Internet

ATLANTA and PARIS, April 6 /PRNewswire/--- Digital Element's IP Intelligence Helps European Seismological Organization Accurately Identify Affected Locations in Less Than 10 Minutes By tracking the number of hits to its website after an earthquake, t ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 24 2011 - 3:22pm

Robots Are Going To Change The Jobs Of Researchers

As science fiction plot lines go, the unintended consequences of yielding tasks too complicated or dangerous for human hands to computers and robots is a popular one. Yet real life scientists are increasingly doing just that, creating automated systems an ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 4:30pm