Technology

A new estimate says that up to 80 percent of scientific data is lost within two decades. The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices. For the analysis, the scholars attempted to…

Open Collaboration, defined in a new paper as "any system of innovation or production that relies on goal-oriented yet loosely coordinated participants who interact to create a product (or service)…

By the time they turn two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. Yet for some children, especially premature babies and those with…

There are many pests in the world which attack plants or compete with them for the resources they need to grow.  This is true for plants growing in natural stands, but also for the plants that…

If you are an avid gamer who can't be bothered with cooking Christmas dinner, or a hipster who wants to cynically consume packaged food while watching bad movies, there is a good news. The Christmas…

Combining two innovative technologies, a team of engineers have made steps toward a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints. Farshid Guilak, a professor of orthopedic surgery…

Peer-reviewed articles are taking off on Twitter - whether or not people have read them is another story. But someone read them during peer review so more exposure is good even if, in the case of…

Microscopy is the universal diagnostic method for detection of most globally important parasitic infections. But it's not cheap. Methods developed in well-equipped laboratories are not available at…

The image of robotics in popular culture is classic science fiction; cogwheels, pistons and levers with perhaps a layer of rubberized skin: miniaturized robots of the future will be "soft".  "If…

Fish is good for you. While fish farming takes hold, the legacy way of providing fish, boats and nets, is still in use. But in most parts of the world, it's hard to know how much fish is being caught…