Technology

Magic Goggles And Enchanted Maps- Kind Of A Science 2.0 For Museums

At Science 2.0 we are not big fans of being clever just for the sake of being clever- we were smart kids and there are smart kids today and the belief by government funding agencies that STEM outreach needs to be cartoons and video games and mascots is a l ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2011 - 1:34pm

MABEL- World's Fastest Bipedal Robot (With Knees)

A robot named MABEL was created in a University of Michigan lab but 'she' can run like a human, up to 6.8 miles per hour. Unless HYDRA and SHIELD exist in secret underground lairs, MABEL is the world's fastest bipedal robot- with knees, that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2011 - 6:01pm

How Webometrics Become A Liability In Webometry

Webometrics faces many challenges, not the least of which is a dearth of tools capable of measuring the Web with any degree of accuracy.  Most academic and professional Webometrics analysts alike have had to rely on a mix of search engine downloads and que ...

Article - Michael Martinez - Aug 23 2011 - 11:21am

Smooth Like A Robot? An Algebraic Approach To Better Movement

A research project aims to improve the control of robot movements with the help of new mathematical approaches.  New developments in the areas of motion planning, computer-aided design and algebraic geometry aim to help in   the identification of situation ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2011 - 10:10am

Blog On Weekly Blogging

To celebrate a half year of effort, this is a blog on weekly blogging. Three tangibles are created by the process: the Science20 blog, a YouTube videoblog, and a chapter in a book of blogs (still under development). I will go through my technical suite use ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Sep 5 2011 - 10:10am

Gazing at the Web from the Back Porch

The universe I see when I sit on my porch and look up into the sky is very different from the universe a professional astronomer sees with all of today's available advanced technology.  On a clear night I may be able to see a few galaxies.  On any nig ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Sep 9 2011 - 1:23am

On The Path Toward A "Star Trek"-Style Sick Bay

A non-invasive disease detection facility has been unveiled  for use in Leicester Royal Infirmary's A&E department.  It will detect the "sight, smell and feel" of disease without the use of invasive probes, blood tests, or other time-con ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2011 - 8:16pm

Encyclopedia Of Life Second Edition Debuts

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a free, online collaborative tool, is expanded in its second edition released today, offering information on more than one-third of all known species on Earth. EOLv2  has 20 times as many pages as when the EOL.org first laun ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2011 - 11:55am

DNA Tests For Deer Poachers, Because That Is A Big Concern (If The Year Is 1228)

The Sheriff of Nottingham will be pleased. It only took 800 years, but poachers can now be tracked down through tests for human DNA on deer remains, according to research led by scientists at the University of Strathclyde. Aside from being silly, since mos ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2011 - 3:44pm

Tracking The Ghosts Of Surfers Past

Deep Web Interferometry compares curves in trendlines from synchronized multiple data sources.  Interferometric analysis of Web metrics data increases the clarity of meaningful data points by isolating events.  For example, given two Websites that track a ...

Article - Michael Martinez - Sep 12 2011 - 11:29pm