Technology

EvoCor Search Engine Identifies Gene Relationships

A team led by Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, have created a search engine called EvoCor that identifies genes that are functionally linked. EvoCor is a portmanteau of "evolution" and &qu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 6:11pm

Temporal Dominance Of Sensations: They Have Ice Cream Sensations On Computers Now?

In the last few years, a technique known as Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) has become popular for analyzing how consumer impressions evolve once they begin to taste a product.  Now, researchers at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 11:16am

Researchers Lack Confidence In Social Media For Communication

If you ask any journalist who writes a science article, or a PR person pitching one, if they would rather have a blurb about their work or get mentioned on Twitter, every single one will go for the link from Science 2.0. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2014 - 7:29pm

Without Subtitles, Her Words Make Noise And Then Vanish

Imagine a world where the tedious moments of life, cleaning or driving a car or whatever, could be spent visiting the Louvre or meeting new people or learning history.  The whole universe of information is at your fingertips. The only evidence of intellige ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 9 2014 - 9:25am

Haem02 Project: Artificial Blood Gets Third Generation Technology

Every day thousands of people around the world have their lives saved or improved thanks to someone giving blood but it has limitations. It's shelf life can be limited, blood types need to match and the public needs to be willing to do it. That's ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2014 - 8:58am

The Shape of Things to Come

As I write this impromptu post the 2nd day of a search technology conference in Seattle is closing with the usual after-hours partying.  People are happily writing blog posts and newsletters that digest the things they have learned from the conference and ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Jun 11 2014 - 11:13pm

Grindr, Scruff And Recon: Want An STD? There's An App For That

Phone dating apps used by gay men to find a sexual partner lead to a higher risk of getting common sexually transmitted infections than meeting online or in bars and clubs, suggests a new paper in Sexually Transmitted Infections. Previous research has sug ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2014 - 12:22am

Mad Cow Disease In Humans: New Test Detects Toxic Prions In Blood

The first cases of Mad Cow disease in humans- properly known as variant Creutzfeld Jakob Disease, or vCJD, though no one recognizes that name- occurred in the late 1990s and were thought to be the consequence of eating contaminated beef products. Since th ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2014 - 9:50pm

HTTP With Accountability: Tim Berners-Lee Wants To Reinvent The World Wide Web

Most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web, the cryptographic schemes that protect online banking and credit card purchases have proven their reliability over decades. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 3:34pm

Bionic Pancreas Outperforms Insulin Pump

The process of blood glucose control could improve dramatically with a bionic pancreas, according to a new study. Currently, people with type 1 diabetes maintain a constant vigil because their pancreas doesn't make the hormone insulin and so they nee ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 8:36am