Technology

Nifty Shades Of Grey- 3D Printing Finds Its Sweet Spot

A 'less is more' approach is not only making 3-D printed parts lighter and stronger, but faster and more economical. A new technique under development is high speed sintering (HSS). Unlike commercial 3-D printers that use lasers, HSS marks the sh ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 2:52pm

No, Digital Natives Are Not Clueless About Protecting Their Privacy Online

Snooping is not allowed. Credit: Paul Walsh, CC BY-NC-SA By Grant Blank, University of Oxford ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 12 2014 - 3:52pm

Minecraft Purchase Is The First Building Block In Microsoft’s New Strategy

Rebuilding Microsoft one block at a time.Credit: animeareftw, CC BY-NC-ND By Mark Skilton, University of Warwick Just as the game Minecraft sees players build their virtual world block by block, Satya Nadella’s bid for its parent company is his first soli ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 12 2014 - 5:00pm

The Keys May Be On Your Fingertips, But That Doesn't Mean Biometric Locks Can't Be Picked

Keys at your fingertips, but the technology isn't there yet. Credit: Rachmaninoff, CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith, The Open University How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be sure that the person in our system, both digitally sp ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 14 2014 - 8:00am

NuQ Blood Test Detects 84% Of Colorectal Cancers

Data from an initial representative 938-subject sample of  a 4,800-subject colorectal cancer trial at Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen demonstrated that the NuQ® blood-based diagnostic platform  is able to correctly diagnose 84% of colorectal cancers, includi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2014 - 8:00am

5 Cool Things About Artificial Hearts

Artificial hearts were invented at a time when progress in science couldn't come fast enough. In 1969, when they first went into human use, DDT hadn't been banned, vaccines were considered the medical highlight of the century, and the Green Revol ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 13 2014 - 12:08pm

Let’s Get Vertical

Agriculture has one hell of a footprint, occupying 37.6 percent of earth’s land area, or about 0.7 hectares (1.7 acres) per person to feed our world's ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Mar 31 2015 - 8:34pm

Gene Testing Identifies Men With 6X Risk Of Prostate Cancer

A third of the inherited risk of prostate cancer is closer to being identifiable with 23 new genetic variants associated with increased risk of the disease. But there are a lot of factors. The total number of common genetic variants linked to prostate can ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 9:32am

Wearable Computing And Privacy Invasions You Might Want To Think About Now

You lookin’ at me?Gareth Fuller/PA By Tom Foulsham, University of Essex Are you being recorded? Thanks to the ubiquity of CCTV and camera phones, the answer is more than ever before likely to be “Yes”. Add to this the growth of wearable technology such as ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 16 2014 - 9:26am

It's Almost 2015- So Where Is My Hoverboard?

As most culturally astute people of a certain age know, 2015 is "The Future" of "Back To The Future II." "Back To The Future" was, of course, a seminal comedy in 1985- a time when terrorists were from the Mid-East and you cou ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 15 2014 - 2:53pm