Technology

DNA Testing Identifies Ingredients In Foods

Modern DNA sequencing techniques have been turned toward creating a highly sensitive, quantifiable analysis of animal, plant, and microbial substances present in foodstuffs. In pilot studies, the researchers were able to use their new DNA method to detect ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2013 - 10:27am

Compact Particle Accelerators Get A New Laser System Proposal

An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system inspired by telecommunications technology that could be used in both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN and more applied tasks such as proton therapy and nuclear ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2013 - 3:20pm

Your Jetsons Future: Swarming Robots Might Clean Your House

Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics have been working to program a group of 40 robots that 'swarm' together to carry out jobs. So far, they have demonstrated that the swarm can carry out simple fetching and carrying tasks, by groupi ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2013 - 1:56pm

Current And Future Prospects For Biosimilars

The current situation and future prospects for biosimilars is similar to that of small molecule drugs, according to an analysis by Research and Markets: they get to benefit from patent expiry. On this basis, prospects for biosimilars might look good, with ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 10:03am

PubMed Central Competes With, Undermines Journal Usage

PubMed Central is costing biomedical journal sites readership and that effect is increasing over time. The bulk of modern biomedical studies are controlled by the government, which means taxpayer-funding, so it makes sense that the results would be availa ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 4:56pm

How I Solved My 555 Timer IC Frequency Problem and Built a 555 Guituner

In my previous blog post, Build a Simple Tone Generator with the 555 Timer IC, I successfully demonstrated how to build a simple tone generator, but when I tried to demonstrate how to build a guitar tuner, instead of generating a 440Hz tone--a standard tun ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Aug 6 2013 - 7:53am

National Robotics Week: Build A Simple Programmable Robot Using Snap Circuits

In honor of National Robotics Week 2013 (April 6-14) I am adding this article that I originally posted on my Society of Robots blog page. In this article you will learn how to build a programmable Snap Circuits Rover by adding a PICAXE micro controller. ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Apr 9 2013 - 5:34pm

Custom Silicon Solutions Programmable 555 timer

In my previous blog post, How I Solved My 555 Timer IC Frequency and Built a 555 Guituner, even though I tried several different combinations of resistors in series, I was unsuccessful in finding the correct combination of resistors to achieve the elusive ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Apr 9 2013 - 5:51pm

Defending Mendeley

If you're not a researcher, you probably don't use Mendeley a lot, I don't have an account there even though I have written lots of pieces about their stuff.  But it's popular among researchers and in the early days of Science 2.0, when ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 12 2013 - 5:41pm

Are You Smarter Than Your Clothes?

Some people just don't know how to put patterns and colors together. Or anything about style. Some of that is cultural, of course. No one really wears corsets any more, for example, and good luck finding anyone outside the Mid-East who knows what a c ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2013 - 10:57am