Technology

As most culturally astute people of a certain age know, 2015 is "The Future" of "Back To The Future II." "Back To The Future" was, of course, a seminal comedy in 1985 - a time when terrorists were…

A third of the inherited risk of prostate cancer is closer to being identifiable with 23 new genetic variants associated with increased risk of the disease. But there are a lot of factors. The total…

Agriculture has one hell of a footprint, occupying 37.6 percent of earth’s land area, or about 0.7 hectares (1.7 acres) per person to feed our world's current population. “There is no activity that…

Keys at your fingertips, but the technology isn't there yet. Credit: Rachmaninoff, CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith, The Open University How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be…

Artificial hearts were invented at a time when progress in science couldn't come fast enough. In 1969, when they first went into human use, DDT hadn't been banned, vaccines were considered the…

Data from an initial representative 938-subject sample of  a 4,800-subject colorectal cancer trial at Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen demonstrated that the NuQ® blood-based diagnostic platform…

Rebuilding Microsoft one block at a time.Credit: animeareftw, CC BY-NC-ND By Mark Skilton, University of Warwick Just as the game Minecraft sees players build their virtual world block by block,…

Snooping is not allowed. Credit: Paul Walsh, CC BY-NC-SA By Grant Blank, University of Oxford Standing on a stage in San Francisco in early 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that as…

A 'less is more' approach is not only making 3-D printed parts lighter and stronger, but faster and more economical. A new technique under development is high speed sintering (HSS). Unlike…

VFH and UFH portions of the radio spectrum are reserved for over the air television broadcasts and the FCC keeps plenty of space between channels to prevent interference. But unused UHF TV spectrum…