Technology

Please Bring Us A Driverless Car Future Soon

Driving is no fun any more. When is the last time you saw someone buy a pair of driving gloves? These days, it is a chore. It would be much better to let someone else take the wheel but the only viable alternative is public transportation- and about the f ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 3:20pm

3-stage Light Gas Gun Gets Hypervelocity Launch

Space debris in Earth's orbit, especially small things that are untraceable and unavoidable, have been a growing concern. Experiments and satellites need to be as light as possible so numerical simulation can be used to enhance or improve the protect ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 9:25am

Few Musical Victims of The Loudness War After All?

The level of recorded music just keeps on increasing. This is what the music press and concerned fans refer to as the “ loudness war ”. Since digital audio has an absolute upper level limit, it is therefore unavoidable that the dynamic range suffers. ...

Blog Post - Sverre Holm - Jul 3 2014 - 4:17am

SciCast Wants To Crowdsource Forecasting The Future

If you ask one scientist to guess how many jelly beans are in a jar, unless they have worked specifically on that problem before, their guess won't be very accurate. But if you ask 500 random people, the mean of their responses will be quite accurate. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 10:21am

New Water-Based Organic Battery Is Cheap, Clean And Rechargeable

When it comes to organic, the last thing you expect is cheap but a new battery may end up being just that.  USC researchers have developed a water-based organic battery that is long lasting and made from cheap, eco-friendly components. It used no metals o ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 8:39am

Self-Assembling Nanosubmarine Could Deliver Molecules To Cells

The world of "Fantastic Voyage" is rapidly approaching. Tiny devices are being used in therapeutic applications, and development of nanoparticles that can transport and deliver drugs to target cells in the human body is progressing also. Recentl ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 7:00pm

People Who Wear Glasses Really Are Smarter

Kids with glasses were once stereotypically considered smarter- expensive prescription specs did not lend themselves to sports so it made some sense they would focus on books due to the biological hand that was dealt them But it may be that needing glasse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 12:27am

Getting You Off The Couch- There's An App For That

You see advertisements for fitness apps on smartphones all of the time. Apple prides itself on convincing you that you will be a better dancer and healthier if you buy their phone. The problem is that the people most likely to use a fitness app for more t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2014 - 3:00pm

Artificial Intelligence: Crowdsourcing Will Teach Robots To Become Our Future Overlords Faster

Want to teach a robot to tend the garden? It will go faster if you let the crowd help. University of Washington computer scientists at the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong K ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2014 - 7:00am

Science 2.0: Big Data Is Complex, Cluster Analysis Can Make It A Little Simpler

'Big data' means a lot of things to a lot of people but generally it is used to indicate huge amounts of information, like texts or keywords, in use at any time by billions of people. Though it has many cultural upsides, tracking flu epidemics, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 3:53pm