Technology

Study: Compensation Does Not Lead To More Positive View Of Products

With all of the recent controversy about claims that Monsanto funding a plant biologist skewed discussion by scientists in their favor, and claims that organic PR companies strategically used anti-science activists at Mother Jones and the New York Times t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2015 - 2:50pm

Half Life Of Stories On Science 2.0

Taking Andy Warhol's quip, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes," (which seems, like so many quotations, to have been stolen or mis-attributed) as a point of departure, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi hypothesized that pe ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Sep 13 2015 - 9:40am

Humans Are Hard-Wired For Laziness

Every time you go to the gym to burn off those Dim Sum calories from the night before, your nervous system is subconsciously working against you. Researchers have found that our nervous systems are remarkably adept in changing the way we move so as to exp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2015 - 8:00am

Synthetic Biology Needs Safety Mechanisms

Targeted cancer treatments, toxicity sensors and living factories: synthetic biology has the potential to revolutionize science and medicine. But before the technology is ready for real-world applications, more attention needs to be paid to its safety and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2015 - 7:30am

Want To Invent Your Own Alar On Apples Scare? 3 Keys To Environmental Mobilization Through Social Networks

For environmental activists who want to use social networks to mobilize the public beyond the retweet, there are three keys to success, according to a paper by scholars ar Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and INGENIO, a joint center of the Universi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2015 - 7:46am

How Volkswagen Got Caught Cheating On Emissions By A U.S. Diesel Advocacy Group

Volkswagen has set aside €6.5 billion to cover the costs of the growing scandal over cheating on emissions tests in the US. Putting a number on the cost further down line will be far harder, however, as it is a crisis which calls into question the ethical ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2015 - 10:00am

MASC Artificial Teeth Are As Tough As Real Ones

Teeth and seashells are among the stronger, more durable things in nature. The secret of these materials lies in their unique fine structure: they are composed of different layers in which numerous micro-platelets are joined together, aligned in identical ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2015 - 9:00am

The Science Of Retweets

What's the best time to tweet, to ensure maximum audience engagement? Researchers at the University of Maryland have demonstrated that an algorithm that takes into account the past activity of each of your followers-- and makes predictions about futu ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 9:00am

Hand And Arm Movement To Quadriplegic Patients Restored

A pioneering surgical technique has restored some hand and arm movement to patients immobilized by spinal cord injuries in the neck, reports a new study. Like railroad switchmen, the focus is on rerouting passageways; however, instead of trains on a track ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 8:30am

'Blind Analysis' Used In Physics Could Reduce Bias In Social And Life Sciences Papers

A course on critical thinking has generated a new proposal to remove sources of bias in research and improve confidence in published studies. Social science research got a black eye recently when the authors of several studies were shown to have manipulat ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2015 - 7:30am