Technology

Last week, the L.A. Times was able to post an article about an earthquake 3 minutes after it happened. No human could write that fast. And no human did. Instead, the story was generated by a computer…

Tree rings don't lie but if you trust temperature readings before 1980, you are not using a rational approach to science. There are too many cases where the official reader is a thermometer of…

Neuroimages are playing a growing role in biomedical research, medicine, and courtrooms. Unfortunately, that often means they are used to bolster weak observational studies and imply correlation and…

What do you think about computer-generated news articles? Would you even know? Recently, Google has tried to penalize 'content farms' - especially companies that look for keywords, terms and trends…

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evaporate easily in the air but they help suppress a deer hunter's worst enemy - smells.  And that science of deer hunting may soon help researchers…

It's hard to imagine how plants, one of nature's greatest successes, could be improved, but nanobionic plants which enhance the photosynthetic function of chloroplasts isolated from plants for…

Gluten-free foods are all the rage. What was once the plight of celiac patients has become the latest health fad and a $5 billion annual industry. Companies like General Mills and others have taken…

New technology developed by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne allows them to detect facial expressions and identify which of the seven universal emotions a person is feeling: fear, anger, joy…

Can you catch a mood from someone online? Most people would answer 'yes', because lots of comments on the Internet enrage them. A political science paper says they can confirm it. Co-author James…

Alan Turing was long famous in computer science and then became notable due to his sexuality and its controversy in England. Less well known is his work in biology and chemistry. During World War II…