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TechCrunch: Mendeley Will Be Sold To Elsevier

The rumor mill has it that Elsevier is in advanced talks to buy Science 2.0 fave Mendeley, a platform academics use to collate PDFS and share research and collaborate via a social network (and a terrific company all the way around, in my opinion).  TechCru ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 17 2013 - 12:22pm

Eight Technologies Keeping A Carcinogen Out Of Your Food

Safe, Tasty, Nutritious Almonds We Shouldn't Take For Granted Sometimes we need to hear about things that are working well in our food system.  I'd like to describe a case where sound regulation and well-applied technology combine to protect us ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jan 22 2013 - 10:13pm

Slippery: New Finnish Ice Detector Warns Car Drivers In Advance

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an automatic ice detection system for cars  that makes use of a new, real-time method of obtaining information on a road's actual slipperiness.   Obviously, such a system helps drivers avoid pers ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2013 - 12:00pm

Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Prediction May Be Near

Predicting weather events is more mysticism than science and it's only after the fact that predictions are recalibrated to try and hone in on more accuracy.  Hurricane Sandy in the eastern United States was predicted to be a super-storm but by the ti ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2013 - 11:30am

Maglev Tech Grows Realistic Lung Tissue

In a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals, scientists from Rice University and Nano3D Biosciences have used magnetic levitation to grow some of the most realistic lung tissue ever produced in a lab ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2013 - 1:20am

"Magic Arms" WREX Exoskeleton Up For Design Of The Year Award

 Stratasys Ltd., a manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, says that the "magic arms" WREX exoskeleton, designed by Nemours/Alfred l. duPont Hospital for Children, has been nominated for the Designs ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2013 - 3:16pm

Solve A Biological Mystery, Boost Artificial Intelligence

If a numerical model simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers is to be believed, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers may have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules – a finding that will l ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2013 - 2:00pm

Open Data Figshare Announces Partnership With PLoS

figshare, a Digital Science portfolio company, has announced a new partnership with open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) to host the supplemental data for all seven PLoS journals, as well as provide a widget that will enable PLoS users t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2013 - 2:40pm

Android Phones Take Top Four Spots In User Satisfaction

Apple's iPhone success is unquestioned but the perception exceeds the reality. Instead, the more modest expectations of Android devices make people far more satisfied with them.  iPhone 5 only ranks fifth in device satisfaction in a study of 93,825 U ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2013 - 10:38am

A Rosetta Stone For Ancient Protolanguages

A group has created a new computer system that can quickly reconstruct protolanguages, the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. And their tool is already 85 percent as accurate as the manual reconstructions performed by expert ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2013 - 7:01pm