Technology

Sorry Duck Dynasty, Deer Hunting Is Going To Help Patients With Diabetes

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evaporate easily in the air but they help suppress a deer hunter's worst enemy- smells.  And that science of deer hunting may soon help researchers develop a life-saving device for diabetes patients, according to a p ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 6:18pm

Was This Press Release Written By A Human? Do You Care?

What do you think about computer-generated news articles? Would you even know? Recently, Google has tried to penalize 'content farms'- especially companies that look for keywords, terms and trends in searches and automatically generate articles t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 12:15pm

FMRI Scans: Separating The Hype From The Reality

Neuroimages are playing a growing role in biomedical research, medicine, and courtrooms. Unfortunately, that often means they are used to bolster weak observational studies and imply correlation and causation. The people most likely to commit scientific s ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 2:11pm

Extreme Gray Literature- Famous Paintings As Evidence For Earth's Climate Past

Tree rings don't lie but if you trust temperature readings before 1980, you are not using a rational approach to science. There are too many cases where the official reader is a thermometer of unknown quality or a television report that used what a f ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 11:18am

How To Write A Science Article In 3 Minutes

Last week, the L.A. Times was able to post an article about an earthquake 3 minutes after it happened. No human could write that fast. And no human did. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 26 2014 - 2:31pm

Exhibit: Data Visualization For The Masses

In 2007, members of the Haystack Group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released a set of Web development tools called Exhibit, which lets novices quickly put together interactive data visualizations, such as maps with ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 9:56am

Science Outreach: There's Not Much Tweeting From The Ivory Tower

University scholars don't use social media to circulate scientific findings and engage their tech-savvy students, according to Michigan State University scholars. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 10:03am

ClinicalTrials.Gov Underreports Deaths In Clinical Trials Compared To Journals

When the government that controls funding and therefore what is researched mandates where results have to be published, people taking the money have to comply. Thus it makes sense that clinical trial results as mandated by government may be different than ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 10:31am

Robot Teacher: Computers Show Each Other How To Play Pac-Man

Artificial intelligence researchers in Washington State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed technology that gives a computer the ability to give advice and teach skills to another computer in a way that m ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 11:15am

Cathartic Pain: A New Tweetment For Discussing Migraine Agony

If we describe the feeling of someone drilling an icicle into their temple, throwing up, and light and sound being unbearable, migraine sufferers know just what we mean. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 2:13pm