Technology

Facial Recognition Tech Comes Of Age- $6.5 Billion By 2018

Over the past few years, demand from the surveillance market and huge spending by governments across the globe on biometric technologies has caused the facial recognition technology market to become more accurate, less costly and significantly more mainst ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2013 - 1:30pm

Journal Impact Factor Under Attack

A group contends that the journal impact factor (JIF), which ranks scholarly journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, has increasingly become an obsession in science. Impact factor of articles is used in evaluati ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2013 - 4:34pm

The Trust Issues That Netflix Creates

Are you among the 60% of UK television viewers who admit to a Television Tryst behind your partner's back? A survey of Netflix customers found that the freedom to watch what we want, when we want can be a romantic minefield.  Netflix has 36 million m ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2013 - 9:40am

If You Like Chocolate, Embrace Science

Everyone says they care about science. And everyone says they care about developing nations. Chocolate may be instrumental in deliciously helping people care about both. Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, has a problem; young people are turning t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 29 2013 - 5:35pm

Turning Knobs In Climate Change And Socio-Economics

Can climate change be mitigated without hurting the quality of life of people?  Food and basic necessities are met before culture and other aspects. Thinking among environmentalists is that if agriculture intensifies in a particular region, it would have a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2013 - 11:03am

Can Laser Light Irradiation Influence Cloud Formation?

Karlsruhe's Institute of Technology, Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Geneva set out to determine whether and how far laser light and plasma can influence cloud formation. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2013 - 3:40pm

Mind Over Mechanics: Get Ready To Control A Flying Robot With Your Brain

It's mind over mechanics. A group in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering have developed a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using only their mind. It sounds fun but it also has the p ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2013 - 10:03am

Twitterverse Data: Making Order From Chaos

Using social media like Twitter, Facebook and others is said to be like drinking from a fire hose. A team of data scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is trying to drink from 7 billion firehoses.  They have ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2013 - 10:46am

Artificial Intelligence For Language? Programming Content And Intuition In Semantics

For a human, knowing the difference between the "charge" of a battery and being charged in a crime is easy. Any three-year-old can look at a cartoon of a chicken and say "That's a chicken" but for computers those are still dauntin ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2013 - 11:22am

Legacy Food Production Techniques Won't Feed Population Of 2050

If you support less efficient agriculture, organic food or conventional food without science optimization, crop yields will not be enough to feed the population of 2050. It's the population bomb scare of the 1950s and '60s reborn a century later ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2013 - 11:24am