Technology

Food Crises And Technological Phobia

Drought across the United States has reduced substantially the expected yield of corn and soybean fields for the fall 2012 U.S. harvests. With reduced yield, prices have risen rapidly for these crops that are widely-used food and feed ingredients, huge in ...

Article - Drew Kershen - Sep 6 2012 - 2:01am

Supercomputer Built From Lego Blocks And Raspberry Pi ARM Boxes

How cheaply can you build a supercomputer?  A group from the University of Southampton just made one using  64 Raspberry Pi ARM GNU/Linux boxes ($25 each) and Lego blocks.  The machine, named "Iridis-Pi" after the University's Iridis superco ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2012 - 7:54pm

Created: A Prosthetic Device For Decision-Making

Is your decision-making suspect?  Do you continually date strippers or bad boys who are 'getting their band together' and wish you could instead replace your own judgment with a prosthesis? Maybe one day.  Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medic ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2012 - 7:32pm

SARTRE Project: Vehicle Platooning Lets You Travel Hands Free In Your Car

The latest test drive marks the final chapter in a three year long project which has seen the development of the next step in autonomous driving technology, 'vehicle platooning'. Since 2009, Volvo Car Corporation has been the driving force behin ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2012 - 3:00pm

Health Robotics Moving Into The Blood/Plasma Automation Market

Health Robotics today announced that it has entered the Blood/Plasma Automation Industry by leveraging its technology across the Pharmaceutical and Blood/Plasma industry sectors. They also announced the general availability of embedded Radio-frequency ide ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2012 - 5:00am

Oxford University Press Joins SCOAP Transparent Open Access Model

On the road to true Open Publishing, where taxpayer money isn't used to pay to publish or to read already taxpayer-funded studies at all, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing (SCOAP) in Particle Physics has set a new waypoint, and Oxfo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2012 - 11:30am

Modern Meadow: In Vitro Leather Within 5 Years

Things have been very hush-hush over at Modern Meadow since it was disclosed in August that the company had received funding from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel’s foundation to 3-D bioprint meat and leather. But in an exclusive interview, company cofounder ...

Article - Michael Keller - Sep 21 2012 - 9:30am

Framing Concepts For Political Gain: They Do That On Computers Now?

It used to be you had to rely on human science journalists to get concepts properly framed for you and enjoy the shot of dopamine confirmation bias provides.  It still happens, just a lot less. Popular Science just went on an anti-religion rant- and you kn ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 25 2012 - 4:21pm

Science 2.0 Update: Elsevier Launches NeuroImage: Clinical As Open Access

Elsevier has announced the launch of NeuroImage: Clinical as an open access journal.  NeuroImage: Clinical will communicate advances in the study of abnormal structure-function relationships of the human nervous system based on imaging. It offers authors ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2012 - 9:30am

Care About Cancer? Want To Buy A 24-Carat Rose Gold IPad?

For the 5 people on the planet who are not 'aware' of breast cancer, Burj Al Arab, which bills itself as the world's most luxurious hotel, is launching the Pinking Burj Al Arab campaign to raise money and reach them.   The gem of the Pinkin ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2012 - 7:06pm