Technology

A New Approach For Detecting Changes In Genetically Modified Foods

Despite extensive cultivation and testing of GM foods, questions related to whether genetic manipulation causes changes in food quality and composition or if genetically modified foods are somehow less nutritious than their non-GM counterparts linger in t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 1:12pm

Purdue Students Create Soy-Based, Renewable, Recyclable Filament For 3-D Printing

The top prize in the annual Purdue Student Soybean Product Innovation Contest went to Carmen Valverde-Paniagua of Chihuahua, Mexico, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, Nicole Raley Devlin of Rockville, Md., a doctoral student in chemical engineer ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2014 - 9:05pm

ILHAIRE: New Computer Avatars Can Laugh Without Seemng Creepy

Two things send our Uncanny Valley creepiness meter straight to red- realistic robots that flirt and anything that laughs.  Realistic laughing is actually not trivial. We see it in real life, we can often tell when someone is fake laughing. On computers it ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2014 - 9:55am

The Downside To Twitter: A Rumor Maelstrom During Disasters

The 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, where a group of gunmen killed 165 and injured 304 people, the May 2012 shooting of five people by a gunman in Seattle and the recall of four million cars by Toyota in 2009 and 2010 because of a faulty accelerator pedal s ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 6:02am

Neuroscientists, You Now Have No Excuse Not To Share Raw Data

Researchers have developed a system allowing neurophysiologists to share raw data with each other, something they hope will generate new discoveries in the field. The first type of data they collected and standardized are recordings of so called ‘retinal w ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 12:01am

Epidural Electrical Stimulation Allows 4 Paraplegic Men To Voluntarily Move Their Legs

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs. Writing in the journal Brain, the researchers from the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology say the breakthrough is a r ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 11:55pm

Cheers, Muad'Dib: Urea Bioreactor Electrochemical System Recycles Astronaut Urine

On the less glamorous side of space exploration, there's the more practical problem of waste — in particular, what to do with astronaut pee. But rather than ejecting it into space, scientists are developing a new technique that can turn this waste bu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 10:46am

MisTable: Your Future Computer Monitor Could Be Made Of Mist

A new tabletop display has a personal screen made from a curtain of mist. It allows users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display. MisTable, led by Professor Sriram Subramanian and Dr Diego Martinez Plasencia from the Un ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2014 - 12:03am

In 2017, England Will Try To Stop An Ancient Tradition

In 2017, the British will introduce a new coin that should be difficult to counterfeit.  The last time a Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne they tried the same thing, to deter “divers evil persons” from damaging the reputation of English coinage and, with i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2014 - 9:56pm

The Pulse Of Music: Making People The Instrument

Live electronic music is an oxymoron. Clearly if you have hired Paris Hilton as a deejay, you are not hiring her because she is any sort of keen ear. If she never showed up, the music would go on. University of British Columbia music professor Bob Pritchar ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2014 - 1:11pm