Technology

BioRap: Artificial Blood Cells From A Printer

A 3-D inkjet printer can generate 3-dimensional solids from a wide variety of materials very quickly by applying the material in layers of defined shape and then bonding these layers are with UV radiation.  It can create microstructures but 3-D printing te ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2011 - 12:35pm

Not Science Fiction: The Road Map To Organ Transplants With No Waiting List

In early July, Karolinska University Hospital issued a press release about a successful trachea transplant using synthetic tissue.  It got mainstream media coverage and it was interesting, I thought, but evolutionary and not revolutionary.  We had covered ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 24 2011 - 11:35pm

Liion confusion

Recently there appeared a Science 2.0 Article Algae-Based Polymer May Boost Li-Ion Battery Performance, and shortly afterwards I got an email drawing my attention to what I thought was the same work, but in fact is a different piece of work, from Leeds Uni ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 16 2011 - 10:41am

Retroviral Protease Solution: A Big Win For Science 2.0

A retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade has been solved by researchers who called on the participatory cornerstone of Science 2.0 for help.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2011 - 2:06pm

Science 2.0: Kids Crowdsource The Search For Apollo 10's Lost Lunar Module

Apollo 11 and giant leaps for mankind get all the love now but the missions leading up to it brought their own excitement- and a mystery.   In May 1969, two months before man walked on the Moon,  Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 19 2011 - 5:25pm

New Transistor Can Communicate With Living Things

Devices that monitor the human body's processes are being researched and tested for biological sensing or for prosthetics but materials scientists at the University of Washington have taken that a step farther.  They have built a transistor that uses ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 12:09pm

Facebook Changes: Is There A Negative Reaction Or Is It Competitor Hype?

  A poll on Mashable, unscientific but a talking point anyway, found nearly 75-percent saying they "hate" the Facebook news feed changes. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 23 2011 - 12:42pm

2016: Streaming High-Definition Video From The Moon

It takes about 90 minutes to transmit a high-resolution image from Mars, but a new NASA optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate in 2016 will be so much faster it will even allow the streaming of high-definition video from distances be ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2011 - 4:28pm

Robo-Cerebellum: The Rat With A Robot Brain

We've all read about efforts to provide amputees with robotic limbs and we know that  deep brain stimulation can relieve a range of Parkinson and OCD symptoms- a Tel Aviv University researcher has combined those ideas and gone a step farther and succ ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2011 - 1:10pm

A Search In Time Is A Memorable Path

"Search.  The final frontier.  These are the voyages of the frustrated Web surfer.  Its five-year mission: To explore strange new content, to seek out new ideas and new expressions.  To boldly know when someone is pulling our leg or being sincere.&quo ...

Article - Michael Martinez - Oct 5 2011 - 7:08pm