Technology

World Of Warcraft 'Studies' Are Still Not Science

Gaming researcher Jonas Linderoth of the University of Gothenburg followed a group of players in the world's largest online role-play game World of Warcraft for a period of ten months. He observed the players almost daily in their fictional online li ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 2:00pm

Sherlock: Tiniest FBI Appendix F Certified Fingerprint Sensors

In the US, we could soon have the government monitoring everything we do. So we might as well be happier about more effective ways to be fingerprinted.  Integrated Biometrics, LLC has gotten FBI certification of its newest finger print technology, patente ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2012 - 11:04am

From Microfilm To Digital: Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Gets Restored

40 years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors have been restored by scientists with the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.  The newly available dat ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2012 - 10:47am

Are Electronic Cigarettes A Healthier Alternative?

Electronic cigarettes are booming. Germans love to smoke, but love dying not so much, and so an estimated two million people in Germany have already turned to the vapor cigarette, which many view as a healthy alternative to conventional smoking. Some are ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2012 - 5:30am

Ultrasonic Pest Repellants Don't Work For Bed Bugs

Just because you can buy something doesn't mean it works. You can buy a home gym, for example, but it won't make you thin. However, there are some things you can buy that won't work even if you actually try to achieve a result. You buy devi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 11:02am

Reverse Craniofacial Planning May Lead To More Than Immunological Match For Face Transplants

Facial transplantation has ushered in a new era of craniofacial surgery but already surgeons are pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved.  Most candidates for facial transplant have loss of soft tissues only, like skin, muscle, blood vessels, and n ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 11:30am

X-Rays Are So 20th Century: New Chips Generate THz Waves

Want a microchip that operates 300 times the speed of chips today? Maybe some day. Tiny, inexpensive silicon microchips developed by a pair of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) generate and radiate high-frequency ele ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2012 - 5:54pm

Social Networks Predict Course Grades

Can social networks determine which students need the most help and which ones excel and might be guided to further study or careers in that subject area?  Information Systems graduates say they can do it. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2012 - 5:00am

A Tree Of Life For Gene Flow Within Species

The Tree of Life is what Charles Darwin first sketched in 1837 to show how species evolved by natural selection. The diagram started at a central point with a common ancestor, then the lines spread apart as organisms evolved and separated into distinct sp ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2013 - 5:24pm

More Omics Take Off: Metabolomics Market Worth $1.5 Billion By 2017

In the post-genomic era, 'omic' technology, and marketing claims to match, promise to understand the biology of various diseases. Metabolomics seeks to look at the chemical fingerprints that cellular processes leave behind and does so through ch ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2013 - 9:30am