Technology

Massive Muon Ring Move Up The Mighty Mississippi Completed

The Muon g-2 team has completed transport of a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22nd at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and concluded this week at Fermilab, a 3,200 mile journey- at le ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2013 - 2:02pm

Computational Biology: Reprogramming Stem Cells On A Computer

In the beginning, there are embryonic stem cells, which divide and increasingly differentiate as they do so. The ensuing tissue cells remain in a stable state, a skin cell does not spontaneously change into a nerve cell or heart muscle cell. The applicati ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2013 - 10:51am

Artificial Intelligent Update: Supercomputer Achieves Largest Neuronal Network Simulation To Date

The K Computer has been used by researchers from the RIKEN HPCI Program for Computational Life Sciences, the Okinawa Institute of Technology (OIST) in Japan and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany to carry out out the largest general neuronal network simu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2013 - 11:28am

Dissolvable Sutures That Also Treat Brain Infections

A plastic material already used in absorbable surgical sutures could also administer antibiotics to patients with brain infections, scientists report in a new study. Use of the material, placed directly on the brain's surface, could reduce the need f ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2013 - 1:00pm

How To Win At Team-Oriented Real-Time Strategy Games

Which strategies give players an edge at winning in multi-player real-time strategy games like Warcraft III/ Defense of the Ancients or Starcraft II? An analysis technique by North Carolina State University computer scientists offers extremely precise inf ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2013 - 1:23pm

Teleportation In An Electronic Circuit For The First Time

Physicists have successfully teleported information in a solid state system for the first time- they moved information from A to B for the first time in an electronic circuit, similar to a computer chip. The essential difference between their method and t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2013 - 2:30pm

More Area 51 Documents Declassified

It is America's worst kept secret- the government has top secret military installations. But the hype around Area 51 rapidly grew to be about aliens and UFOs. Instead, it was a more typical Cold War tale.  President Eisenhower had signed off on a secr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 16 2013 - 12:35pm

Longevity Challenge: Build Better Brain Implants

A technique from Case Western Reserve University seeks to address two challenges inherent in brain-implantation technology; gaging the property changes that occur during implantation and measuring on a micro-scale.  The authors seek to make some progress ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2013 - 9:27am

Science 2.0 For Collaboration

With increased regulation, the overwhelming chance of failure and lawsuits looming for each new treatment, it's little surprise that the private sector is abandoning medical research- or at least wanting to share the costs. One of the four founding t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 2 2013 - 5:30am

$1 Syphilis Test To Make Diagnosis Readily Available Throughout Latin America

Syphilis has become a serious health issue (again) in Latin American countries, with 3 million cases. Every year 330,000 pregnant women with syphilis receive no treatment, resulting in 110,000 children born with congenital syphilis and a similar number of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2013 - 1:00pm