Technology
- Science 2.0 Teams Up With Ora TV
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Science 2.0, the future of science, has teamed up with Ora.TV, the future of television, for a joint marketing agreement. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 9 2014 - 10:02am
- i-KAM Video Eyewear and the Free Music Archive
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I went to the Indiana State Fair last Friday. Visited lots of exhibits and ate lots of great food. I also wanted to shoot some test POV (point of view) video with the i-KAM XTREME video eyewear. The i-KAM is a lower cost alternative to wearable video camer ...
Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Aug 8 2014 - 12:25pm
- 10 Year Anniversary Of First Successful Craniopagus Conjoined Twins Operation
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Formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre celebrated the 10th anniversary of their separation today with the medical team that successfully separated and cared for them at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM)- the first documented set ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2014 - 4:24pm
- Soft Skills: New Tool Evaluates Bedside Manner Of Doctors
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Given the choice between a great doctor and a nice doctor, most people would choose great, but for those who prefer nice, a new tool evaluates and helps medical residents improve their communication and other soft skills to become better doctors. The stu ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 5:30pm
- To Look Authentic On Social Media, Fake It Up A Little?
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Not popular on Twitter? You may think it's because you're too honest. Unless you are a celebrity, popularity instead seems to come from conforming to social norms and expectations, so science journalists will complain about Republicans a lot, en ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 10:58am
- A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words- And Maybe 100,000 Other Pictures
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A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes, meaning that a picture can tell a big story quickly, but what if it could also represent a hundred thousand other images? New software seeks to tame the vast amount of visual data in the world by gene ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 9:00pm
- Use Your Mobile Device As A Data Collection Tool- Since The NSA Does
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If you want to do something more practical with your phone than playing Angry Birds and reading email you won't reply to until you get to a computer, researchers at U.C. Davis have created Easy Leaf Area, which allow users to accurately measure leaf ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 5:00am
- Senior Author, First Author- New Algorithm Sheds Light On Crediting Research Properly
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There has always been a bit of good-natured humor when it comes to who gets credit for what in a long line of citations. Occasionally, it can be strange, like when one person who contributed to the I.P.C.C. claims to be a Nobel laureate, but most often th ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 10:28am
- Two Whacks To Technology’s Dark Side
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It’s banal to mention that technology is a two-edged sword. That it solves practical problems and creates new ones. That it makes our lives more comfortable and more complex, and stresses and at the same time sustains our social relationships. Today we’ll ...
Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 17 2014 - 9:12am
- In Vitro Diagnostic Market Is $54 Billion
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The world market for diagnostics was about $54.6 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow 4% annually, to $65 billion, by 2018. That figure in Kalorama's biennial survey of the IVD industry, The Worldwide Market for In Vitro Diagnostic Tests, 9th Editi ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2014 - 10:07am