Technology

Let's Start Using Our (Si) Brains

Let's Start Using Our (Si) Brains scientists have sequenced the human genome-- the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology-- but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work?... ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 26 2010 - 8:39pm

What to blog about?...

New Scientist tells us that some of my former IBM Research colleagues have been busy looking at ways to give bloggers inspiration: Want to get more people to read your blog? A software tool that provides a list of topics for you to write about could help. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 26 2010 - 10:07pm

Tracking in the 21st century

This New Scientist article reminds me of a project I worked on about ten years ago. The article talks about analyzing mobile-phone location data to establish patterns of how the users move around. We didn’t analyze predictability rates, but we did look fo ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Mar 2 2010 - 6:01am

Open Source

Forgive me if this has been covered already, but I am curious about the use of computers in Science I have to add a quick sentence here just to prevent the questions overlaying the initial graphic I'll pose this as a Questionnaire, and would apprecia ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 9 2010 - 3:56pm

Biometrics pulls ahead by a nose

The "humble hooter" could be added to the list of features used to identify an individual, according to scientists at the University of Bath. Researchers created a system called PhotoFace to scan the shape of volunteers' noses, and developed ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 15 2010 - 9:12am

YouTube and Digital Copyright Insanity

Warner Music Group tries to protect property it doesn't even own: In the first installment of a planned video blog of their American tour, A23’s Tom Shear recorded a nine-and-one-half minute video describing the band’s plan to connect with its fans th ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 15 2010 - 4:54pm

Video Games Help Teens With Cerebral Palsy Regain Hand Function

Indiana and Rutgers researchers have modified Playstation 3 video game systems to help teenagers with cerebral palsy improve their hand functions. In a pilot trial with three participants, the system improved the teens' abilities to perform a range of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2010 - 1:53pm

Zimmer on Science News Consumption

Earlier this week Zimmer asked readers to help out science journalists and participate in a survey about where we get our science news. He's got the results up. You can go see for yourself what online science readers say about where they get their new ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 18 2010 - 8:59pm

User-interface follies

In days of old, when knights were bold, and they kept their data on large reels of magnetic tape, the tapes were stored in a central tape library, and were mounted by request on mainframe computers. Each tape in the library was given a volume serial. One ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Mar 22 2010 - 7:00am

Water Desalination Via Ion Concentration Polarization

A new approach to water desalination called ion concentration polarization may lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and deliver enough fresh water to supply the needs of a family or small village. As ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 2:02pm