Technology

A few years ago, Europe had a policy making it illegal to sell fruit that was not cosmetically ideal. People overpaying for food deserve to have it aesthetically pleasing as well, was the reasoning,…

Sunlight is the best medicine. rishibando, CC BY-NC By Christopher Sampson, University of Nottingham What is it that sets academic publications apart from articles on The Conversation? Peer review…

After decades of cracking, the cracks are appearing in cryptography. infobunny, CC BY By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and…

A 29-year-old bottlenose dolphin recently underwent therapeutic bronchoscopy to treat airway narrowing - stenosis - that was interfering with her breathing. The dolphin had developed a cough (…

In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov at chess. He had won their first encounter in 1996, with 3 wins, 1 loss and 2 draws (4-2), so the team of programmers and chess experts tweaked…

shutterstock By Carsten Maple, University of Warwick The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill introduced in the UK parliament this week is designed to place legal requirements on certain businesses to…

A growing number of scholars are using social media data to write articles about both online and offline human behavior - it's cheap, it's as accurate as surveys if properly controlled, and no one…

We're being overrun with Big Data and that has created a need to increase computing and networking power to make it possible to manage the vast amount of information available. Toward that goal, a…

A clinical trial compared three alternative treatments for type 1 diabetes and confirms that an external artificial pancreas improves glucose control and reduces the risk of hypoglycemia compared…

If you don't put a piece of tape over your webcam, get used to being watched. adafruit, CC BY-NC-SA By Gordon Fletcher, University of Salford The UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has…