Technology

Stem cell research is a major challenge for medicine. Recently, asymmetric cell division was filmed in vivo in fruit fly germinal stem cells for the first time by the team of Jean-René Huynh at the Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot), no ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2009 - 1:38pm

Energy and Organic Farming

One of the pleasures of working at Reading University is being able to walk across to our Agriculture Department at lunchtime and join the table talk. Today, they were discussing the following press release. Rising energy costs give an important role for ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 24 2009 - 10:40am

The Meaning Of Tolerance

The Meaning Of Tolerance Tolerance, the ability to 'live with' or 'put up with' something has wide-ranging applications in engineering, and is strongly parallel to the notion of error bars 1 in science. I use the terms 'tolerance& ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 29 2009 - 1:55pm

Poken (not Pokémon)

I spent last week in Boston, attending the Open Mobile Alliance meeting. Whenever one goes to meetings, one does the dance of the business card exchange. Because it was my first OMA meeting, I had more of it going on than usual, as I met a lot of people f ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Jun 30 2009 - 1:47pm

Mother's maiden name, revisited

New Scientist reports on a study that shows how bad “secret questions” are at protecting your accounts: What’s your secret question? Your mother’s maiden name? Your first pet? ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 7 2009 - 8:00am

The Daytime Astronomer Collects Programming Languages

Time for a job-hunting question. Which programming languages can you work with? It's not the same question as which languages you know, and can be a surprisingly hard question to answer, particularly when you're job-hunting and the issue comes ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 30 2009 - 8:28pm

Michael Jackson Finally Gets His Own Computer Virus

Interested in Michael Jackson now that he is dead? So are cyber criminals who are exploiting public interest in his death with spam messages that infect computers with a virus able to steal bank account numbers and passwords, according to Gary Warner, Un ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2009 - 8:56pm

Power Rental In Africa To Double By 2014, Reveals Frost Sullivan

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 1 /PRNewswire/-- The use of power rental equipment is becoming increasingly important in sub-Saharan Africa to alleviate the current electricity crisis affecting the region. ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 2 2009 - 4:04pm

Digital Imaging Boost Makes Bad Images Clear

On television, police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist but, in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn't been an easy task. It just g ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2009 - 9:35am

Error Handling And Error Codes

Error Handling And Error Codes This article is a brief explanation of how errors can be handled in computer code. The basic idea is that if an error arises then it should be obvious, and easily corrected. The concept of error-handling and correction is r ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 1 2009 - 2:44pm