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12 New Causes Of Developmental Disorders Found

A nationwide project to study the genetic causes of rare developmental disorders has found 12 causative genes that were unidentified before. The Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) nationwide genome-wide diagnostic sequencing program sequenced DNA a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2014 - 11:49am

Your Technology New Year's Resolutions For 2015

By David Glance, University of Western Australia People of the western world have been making resolutions for the new year for over 4,000 years. The Babylonians, along with the Romans who later developed the idea further, made resolutions in the hope of f ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 29 2014 - 2:30pm

Cycling for Science #2- Geology

Cycling for Science #2- Geology Cycling on tarmac roads in summer is all very well but you can learn a whole lot about geology- and the laws of physics- if you ride off-road.  For example: today I went for a ride along a little-known trail and discovered ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 1 2015 - 8:34pm

Nanostructures Could Lead To Your Future Cyborg Robot Chassis

A new research effort is focused on nanostructured materials with biocompatible and antibacterial properties. Ana Maria Arizmendi Morquecho, scholar at the Research Center for Advanced Materials (Cimav) in Mexico, says that the challenge is to find appropr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2015 - 12:58pm

David Orban Guest Post: On Becoming A Cyborg

The following is a guest post by David Orban, CEO at Dotsub, faculty and advisor at Singularity University, and trustee of Network Society Research. When I implanted an NFC chip in my left hand about two months ago at the Singularity University Summit Eur ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 5 2015 - 10:45am

With ApplePay, America Caught Up To Kenya Of 2004- How 'Good Enough' Holds Us Back

Don't mobile payments make more sense? US Navy By Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Apple’s product launches are covered with breathless enthusiasm usually reserved for royal weddings and vaccines for dread diseases. The recent l ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 6 2015 - 6:57pm

Artificial Intelligence Is Not Close To Creating A Doomsday Machine

Is artificial super-intelligence lurking nearby, under wraps? eugenia_loli, CC BY By Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 8 2015 - 9:00am

This Robot Learns Your Every Basketball Move

Automated cameras make it possible to broadcast sporting events but the choices lack the creativity of a human camera operator or director. The camera just goes back and forth following the ball. Disney Research engineers have now made it possible for robo ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 12:33pm

Coffee Shop Hackers Can Snoop- Even When You Are Not On The Internet

You may feel safe working at the coffee house because you are not using their public Wi-Fi connection. Think again. And that smartphone is even more vulnerable to snooping. The new breed of coffee shop hackers can see what you're doing by analyzing th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 12:28pm

Air Asia 8501- Tail To Be Raised

Air Asia 8501- Tail To Be Raised The recently located tail of Air Asia flight 8501 is to be raised according to reports by Detik News. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 8 2015 - 1:17pm