Technology

Psychology and psychiatry have a big problem - they are trapped in the past. While most areas of medicine have moved beyond symptom-based diagnosis, the mental health community is instead adding new…

I just returned from the Asian Science Park Association conference in Shiraz, Iran.[1] One Science Park official asked me, “Companies in our park cannot get any cooperation from the big petrochemical…

Image: the conversation By David Glance, University of Western Australia In 2012, the UK’s Sunday Times reported that actor Bruce Willis was going to sue Apple because he was not legally allowed to…

Though lots of people used the expensive government health insurance portal healthcare.gov to get information on the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, far fewer could successfully use…

Reading glasses have served us for centuries. Why fix a good thing? Because science and technology can.  Presbyopia, blurriness in near vision experienced by many people over the age of 40,…

Image credit:  Ph0neutria via shutterstock By: Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science (Inside Science) — Until last year, website designers had a choice of just 22 Internet domains to use as suffixes…

DNA analysis has become increasingly cost-effective since the human genome was first fully sequenced in the year 2001. Sequencing a complete genome, however, still costs around $1,000 each so…

A paper in the International Journal of Web-Based Communities suggests that the familiar interfaces of online social networking sites might be adapted to allow us to interact more efficiently with…

We are only beginning to see what augmented reality can do. Credit: Flickr/Karlis Dambra, CC BY By Nick Kelly, University of Southern Queensland It seems we are headed towards a world where augmented…

By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) –   You've seen toys and prosthetics made on a 3-D printer but now, scientists are using 3-D printers to build implants that help babies…