Technology
- Decoding "Factory DNA" Will Bring Manufacturing To Life
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When we think of DNA, we think of biology but the concept of DNA has become so culturally ingrained it is now colloquial- and the concept of a blueprint common to people may help revolutionize manufacturing. A group at the Fraunhofer Institute have set ou ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2011 - 12:30pm
- Parking Stinks- Let Science Fix It
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Parking is a funny thing; no one is ever happy with it. Even if you go to Disney World, which has come as close as anyone to mastering the perception you are moving while you really go nowhere inside the park itself, the parking is horrendous outside. If ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2011 - 5:30pm
- Uncanny Valley? Mask-Bot Robot Has A Human Face
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Mask-Bot, which looks somewhat like a real person (your uncanny valley sense notwithstanding) is actually the prototype of a new robot face that a team at the Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS) at TU München has developed in collaboration with a group ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2011 - 12:41pm
- Millions Of Dollars To Build A Computer From The 1830s? Yes, Please
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Some folks in Britain want to spend 10 years and millions of dollars to build a computer that goes really, really slow- and I think it's a great idea. I partly think it's a great idea because it is not Americans spending millions of dollars, the ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 10 2011 - 8:21pm
- BrainNavigator Wants To Speed Neurological Research
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Elsevier announced new features for its online research tool BrainNavigator, adding new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research. BrainNavigator is an online, interactive, 3D software tool for the applic ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2011 - 12:31pm
- VocalWall- Vocal Private Message On Facebook
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VocalWall LTD has released a tool to post private vocal messages on Facebook and other social networks. Traditionally, text messaging has been the sole form of private communication. ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2011 - 3:30pm
- Modeling Relationships In Social Networks- A Waypoint On The Science 2.0 Road?
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A group of researchers has created a model they say can identify and predict how multiple relationships form in social networks. The nuance, they say, is that multiple, distinct types of relationships often occur among users of the same network and existin ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2011 - 3:30pm
- Top Ten Gadgets Of 2011
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Sheesh, it isn't even Thanksgiving but companies are already advertising Top Ten Lists? When will it end? There are still 37 shopping days until Christmas but T he Sunday Times already has its top ten gadgets of 2011 list up. Compiled by their tech ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2011 - 10:11am
- Lessons NASA Can Learn From The Internet
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I am sure it is old news to most if not all of Science 2.0's readers that NASA recruited Vint Cerf to help adapt Internet technology to space mission communications in 2000; and that they successfully tested a new protocol in 2008. I have no doubt th ...
Article - Michael Martinez - Mar 9 2012 - 1:54am
- Degrees of separation
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New Scientist tells us about Facebook’s analysis of the “friend” relationships in their social network. “Only four degrees of separation, says Facebook,” goes the New Scientist headline. Here’s their summary: A few months ago, we reported that a Yahoo tea ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Nov 23 2011 - 2:37pm
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