Technology
- MicroMilk: Pasteurizing Milk With Microwaves
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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
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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
- LineUp: How To Game Your Way To The Top Of Those Top 100 Lists
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You probably recognize that there are no objective measures to creating those "Top 10" and "Top 100" lists. There is a generous sprinkling of personal bias and subjective decisions. Yet the assumption is that rankings of median home pr ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 9:24pm
- How Do You Break the Internet?
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There is a great deal of rhetoric and propaganda about "threats to the Internet" floating around the ethernet these days. It's mostly political talk, in my opinion. The majority of people don't seem to stop and check the laws before g ...
Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Feb 8 2014 - 2:00am
- Primitive Artificial Cell Turned Into Complex Biological Material
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For decades, scientists have been pushing toward the goal of creating artificial building blocks that can self-assemble in large numbers and reassemble to take on new tasks or to remedy defects. Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have tak ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 11:25pm
- Bionic Hand Gives Amputee Real-Time Ability To Feel
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Nine years ago, Dennis Aabo Sørensen of Denmark lost the use of his left hand handling fireworks during a family holiday. Now he has become the first amputee in the world to feel sensory-rich information, in real-time, with a prosthetic hand wired to ne ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 6:19pm
- Tech Product Coolness- Why Record Players Are Hip Again But Few Own Them
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People who gravitate toward the latest technology regard themselves as progressives mavericks on the cutting edge- and then they stand in a line outside the Apple store. Apple products don't look good, and they aren't particularly original- havi ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 5:28pm
- Multiagent Systems: Control Programs For Fleets Of Robots Created
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A program that allows a single autonomous robot to navigate an uncertain environment with an erratic communication link is difficult and the difficulty for writing code to handle multiple robots that may have to work in tandem is even harder. ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 12:01pm
- Mosquito Wars: Secret Bioweapons Development In Nazi Germany
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The Nazis studied everything to gain an advantage. Those stories about mysticism and artifacts aren't wrong, and the advanced weapons projects are well known, that is why US President Harry Truman authorized "Operation Paperclip" to recruit ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2014 - 10:53pm
- Betting On Dietbet: Social Gaming Site Effective Weight Loss Tool, Finds Study
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A recent analysis found that DietBet, a web-based commercial weight loss program that pairs financial incentives with social influence, delivers significant weight loss to participants. On Dietbet.com, players join a game to lose weight while betting mone ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2014 - 7:00am