Technology

A Lot Of Scientific Data Gets Lost

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. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2014 - 6:00am

Christmas Tinner- A Holiday Feast For Hipsters

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 Tinner is 9 layers of processed food in a can, meals ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2013 - 11:11am

Five Ways That Farmers Control Pests Other Than With Pesticides

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 people grow as crops.  If pests are left unchecked, crop produ ...

Article - Steve Savage - Dec 30 2013 - 11:56am

Imaging Technology Could Unlock Mysteries Of Childhood Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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 underlying health conditions, RSV can lead to pneumonia a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2013 - 5:01pm

A World Of Wikipedia And Bitcoin: Is That The Promise Of Open Collaboration?

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) of economic value, which they make available to cont ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 11:46am

How Hackers May Control Your Brain In The Future

Several years ago former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had his doctors disable the wireless capabilities of his heart’s pacemaker to thwart any assassination attempt by hacking into his implant’s software. The ongoing revelations of the many ways the NSA ...

Article - Eric Leuthardt - Feb 9 2014 - 12:56pm

The Science Of How To Optimize Your Kickstarter Fundraising Campaign

Crowdfunding is just like anything else; it is wonderfully naive to believe that a great idea will organically take off and be successful- but doomed to fail most of the time. Computer scientists from Georgia Tech are here to help; after analyzing more th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2014 - 11:58am

MACRO Test Detects Genetic Modification In Food

As food science continues to advance, so do calls to label and ban foods that have been modified using modern techniques. In GMOs, the genes of some plants used for food are tweaked to make them more healthful (Golden Rice) or pest-resistant (lots of othe ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2014 - 2:16pm

MicroMilk: Pasteurizing Milk With Microwaves

Everyone's heard of microwave ovens by now.  These mass-market kitchen devices were a by-product of a much more narrow application- radar. During World War II, the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves, was invented to spot German bombers on thei ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2014 - 4:58pm

The NSA Should Use All That Data For More Accurate Airport Waiting Times

Want a more accurate estimate of waiting time to get through security at airports?  Obviously monitoring Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is one way to go, but often people shut those off in the airport to conserve energy. Monitoring cell phones and tablets doesn' ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2014 - 6:01am