Technology

Do You Get The "Violet Or Purple" Blues?

Do you find that your camera is not registering violet correctly?  Flowers that are more violet in appearance are coming out blue, while some purple flowers come out all right.  In the picture below, the daisy and the pansy to the right appear more or less ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Dec 13 2016 - 2:26pm

Bioartificial Kidney On The Horizon

At ASN Kidney Week 2016 in Chicago, investigators showed progress toward creating a functional bioartificial kidney that could replace the need for dialysis or transplantation in the millions of patients with kidney failure. A key requirement for such a de ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2016 - 9:44am

Immersive 3-D VR Visualizations Of Unborn Babies

People may soon be able to watch their unborn babies grow in realistic 3-D immersive visualizations, thanks to new technology that transforms MRI and ultrasound data into a 3-D virtual reality model of a fetus. MRI provides high-resolution fetal and place ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2016 - 9:50am

Holograms And The Future That Never Came

Stereoscopes entertained every Victorian home with their ability to produce three-dimensional pictures. Typewriters and later fax machines were once essential for business practices. Photo printers and video rentals came and went from high streets. ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 24 2016 - 6:07am

Russian scientists increase DVD storage capacity million times

Russian scientists increase DVD storage capacity million times 01.12.2016 Pravda reports- ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 2 2016 - 8:42pm

The Consumer And Privacy Risks Of Fitbit

There remain a lack of safeguards built into the health-care system for fitness trackers. Personal health wearable devices that are used to monitor heart rates, sleep patterns, calories, and even stress levels have led to new privacy and security risks. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2016 - 1:34pm

How Wind Turbines Work- A Legal Perspective

How Wind Turbines Work- A Legal Perspective If you want to know how a wind turbine works you may visit Wikipedia or the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  You would not normally look for scientific information on a case law web site, but t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 19 2017 - 1:29pm

Nanoscience: 5 Ways Science Fiction Is Becoming Science Fact

Russian author Boris Zhitkov wrote the 1931 short story Microhands, in which the narrator creates miniature hands to carry out intricate surgeries. And while that was nearly 100 years ago, the tale illustrates the real fundamentals of the nanoscience rese ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2017 - 9:34pm

How To Get Good At Games, Without Practicing For 10,000 Hours

Data from online video games has been used to study what kinds of practice and habits help people acquire skill. Basically, what does it take to get good? 10,000 hours, as Malcom Gladwell said? Nope, not even close. But there are reasons why some people a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2017 - 1:26pm

What 92 Percent Of NYT Cookbooks Fail To Tell You

Cookbooks are popular. Cookbooks are instructional. But they are woefully lacking information about a vital thing- food safety. An analysis of 1,497 recipes from 29 cookbooks that appeared on the New York Times best sellers list for food and diet books, a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2017 - 3:03pm