Technology

Is The Tungsten Bulb On Its Way Back?

In the last few days, there has been a spate of reports that the incandescent bulb is on its way back.  This relates to work by a group of authors at MIT plus one at Purdue University in Indiana, featured in a news report from MIT: A nanophotonic comeback ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 14 2016 - 5:22pm

New Recommendations On Life Sciences Reproducibility

No one expects much of the social sciences, so a heavy reliance on undergraduate psychology student surveys to draw conclusions and resulting lack of reproducibility is dismissed, but the National Institutes of Health is nearly half of the federal governm ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2016 - 8:58am

How Consumer Computational Search is Changing the Internet

I don't like using the term "consumer" because it implies an economic function of the searcher.  There is certainly an economy (exchange of value) in the Searchable Web Ecosystem but "consumers" are really "searchers".  I ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Jan 18 2016 - 4:50pm

Fitbit Extreme: Catching Heartbeats With Millimeter-Wave Radar From A Distance

Heartbeats can now be measured without placing sensors on the body, thanks to a new way to measure heartbeats remotely, in real time, and under controlled conditions with as much accuracy as electrocardiographs. The researchers say this will allow for the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2016 - 6:18am

New Method To Test For Antibiotic Susceptibility

A new method to determine if bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics within a few hours could slow the appearance of drug resistance and allow doctors to more rapidly identify the appropriate treatment for patients with life threatening bacterial infectio ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2016 - 8:30am

Smartphones May Increase Activity- If They Nag You To Move, Anyway

A small pilot study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that using smartphone reminders to prompt people to get moving may help reduce sedentary behavior. Prior papers have corrolated sedentary time to increased risk of breast, colorectal, o ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2016 - 2:01pm

A Pen To See Cancer

Surgeons removing a malignant brain tumor don’t want to leave cancerous material behind, but they also need to protect healthy brain matter and minimize neurological harm. Once the patient’s skull is open, there’s no time to send tissue samples to a pathol ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2016 - 6:23am

Journal Publishing Seralini Paper Claiming GMO Toxicity Disappears Faster Than His Career

How do you know the paper claiming GMO toxicity is in a journal that isn't very reputable? They don't have $9 to renew their domain. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 27 2016 - 3:54pm

Biodegradable Material With Built-In Vitamin A Reduces Scarring

Scarring is a natural part of any healing process but scar formation within blood vessels can be deadly. To prevent scarring and the dangerous damage that follows, researchers writing in ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering discuss development of a ne ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 9:00am

Obfuscation: How To Hide From Online Surveillance

It’s a common assumption that being online means you’ll have to part ways with your personal data and there’s nothing you can do about it. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 8:39am