Technology

InOrder: Evidence-Based, Collaborative Order Sets Tool

International publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of InOrder, a cloud-based order sets solution that enables clinicians to author, review and publish orders in a collaborative environment that quickly translates evidence-based knowledge into bette ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2013 - 3:14pm

Organic Hive Mind? Brain-To-Brain Information Transmitted Between Rats

Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats, enabling them to communicate directly to solve simple behavioral puzzles- even thousands of miles apart, one in Durham, N.C., and one in Natal, Brazil. The results of these projects sugge ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2013 - 11:14am

Mobile Content Market Revenue Plummets But There's A Silver Lining

Operator storefronts and portals now account for just 6% of content downloads worldwide, with Google Play and Apple's App Store now comprising nearly 70% between them. The increasing popularity of OTT (Over The Top) stores had led to many operators c ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2013 - 2:53pm

Computer Can Distinguish Between Apples And Plums

How is a 3-year-old better than a computer?  A pre-school child can look at a cartoon of a chicken and know that's a chicken but a computer cannot.  But things are getting better. In the International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition,  a comput ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2013 - 11:33am

Life Science Research Tools Market Trending Down

Research and Markets has released its "Life Science Research Tools Market Size, Growth and Trends 2006-2016" report.  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2013 - 2:30pm

They Have Robots On The Internet Now?

Researchers have developed a cloud-computing platform,  the RoboEarth Cloud Engine, that allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers for tasks and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2013 - 9:57am

AT&T 400 Gb/s Data Transmission Shatters Old Distance Record

As network carriers debate the next Ethernet standard, and whether transmission speeds of 400 gigabit per second or 1 terabit per second should be the norm, engineers are working on new ways to squeeze next-generation performance out of current-generation ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2013 - 1:03pm

Introduction to the 555 Timer IC

In this article you will learn how to build an optical theremin using a 555 Timer IC. You will learn the functions of the pins on the 555 chip that are used in this build. You will learn that when the 555 is in astable mode, the output from pin 3 is a cont ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Mar 22 2013 - 3:50pm

March Madness: Scientifically Predicting The NCAA Basketball Tournament National Championship

Can a computer predict the winner of the NCAA basketball tournament, called March Madness by fans and the NCAA corporate juggernaut alike? If so, Science 2.0 will save you some time: third seed Florida will be your national champion. The prediction is fro ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2013 - 8:57pm

Build A Simple Tone Generator With The 555 Timer IC

In my previous blog post, Introduction to the 555 Timer IC, you learned how to build an optical Theremin using a 555 Timer. The original Theremin used radio frequency interference caused by the movement of the player's hand to change the pitch of the ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Aug 6 2013 - 8:07am