Technology

The Resource Curse: Science Cities Suffer

I just returned from the Asian Science Park Association conference in Shiraz, Iran. [1] One Science Park official asked me, “Companies in our park cannot get any cooperation from the big petrochemical firms. What can we do?” ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Oct 20 2014 - 10:24am

Ebola In The USA: Don't Trust What You Read On Twitter

Think twice before you over-react. Image: Jim Bourg/Reuters By Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia Whatever you do, don’t turn to Twitter for news about Ebola. The volume and tone of tweets and retweets about the disease will make you wish you ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 21 2014 - 5:30pm

Preventing Murder: 3 Ways To Predict Who Will Become A Killer

Right now, the police can't do much to help you until after a crime has been committed. In a science-fiction tale about free will and psychological determinism, Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" detailed a world where PreCrime officer ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 24 2014 - 12:38pm

Blood Vessel Transplant From Own Stem Cells- Now In A Week

Three years ago, a patient at Sahlgrenska University Hospital received a blood vessel transplant grown from her own stem cells. Two other transplants were performed in 2012. The patients, two young children, had the same condition as in the first case – t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2014 - 3:28pm

Simple New Test For Vitamin B12 Deficiency

A novel method to test for vitamin B12 deficiency is sensitive enough to work on anyone, including newborn babies and large swaths of the general population. It uses a single drop of blood collected from a finger prick which is then blotted and dried over ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 10:31am

US Operating Rooms Could Donate 2 Million Pounds Of Unused Medical Supplies

In the past, it was common practice to get rid of anything that was used- and unused- in operating rooms, but with rising health care costs due to government insurance and growing realization that many countries have few supplies at all, recovery of unuse ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2014 - 10:47am

How Understanding The Heterogeneous Topocracy Of Twitter Can Help The Future Of Science 2.0

To gain followers on Twitter, some supposed social media and SEO "experts" claim that a lot of volume and following a lot of people is the road to popularity.  Not really. The most effective strategy is to already be famous. Due to its imbalance ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2014 - 9:27am

Information-Theoretic Security: Creating 21st Century Cryptography Standards

Most modern cryptographic schemes rely on complexity for security- they can be cracked, but that would take a prohibitively long time, even with enormous computational resources. Information-theoretic security, in which even an adversary with unbounded co ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2014 - 10:02am

Comics, Cosplay, Conventions, and Dr. Who Too

Source My colleague, Tony Troxell, has a blog called Geeking in Indiana with the tagline, “Movies, Tidbits, and General Geekery from Around Indiana.” Tony explains the purpose of his blog here. ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Nov 5 2014 - 10:53am

In Cybersecurity, The Weakest Link Is You

We should know by now- don't click that link. Bill Buchanan, Author provided By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on a great number of links, hardware, software and some ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 1 2014 - 10:51pm