Technology

Jubilee Plastic Bag

A day or two ago, local ITV featured a news item about a man who had kept the same plastic bulk issue shopping carrier bag for 34 years, using it from time to time. The bag celebrated 50 years since the first Tesco store was opened in 1929, and he had acq ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 9 2015 - 5:41am

Call Me Muad'Dib: Generator Uses Urine To Power Wireless Transmitter

A pair of socks embedded with miniaturized microbial fuel cells and fueled with urine pumped by the wearer's footsteps has powered a wireless transmitter to send a signal to a PC., the first self-sufficient system powered by a wearable energy generat ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2015 - 11:50am

2015, The Year CRISPR Went Mainstream

If you are in science, the genome editing method called CRISPR  is not new, it has been all the rage since 2012 because of its superior ability of CRISPR to deliver a gene to the right spot compared to its genome editing competitors. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2015 - 12:03pm

Driverless Cars: Teaching Machines To See

Two newly-developed driverless cars systems can identify a user's location and orientation in places where GPS does not function, and identify the various components of a road scene in real time on a regular camera or smartphone, performing the same ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2015 - 8:00am

Wikidata For Research- Wiki4R Is Another Attempt At Open Science

Almost 10 years ago, we created the Science 2.0 movement, which was geared toward modernizing science collaboration, publication, communication and participation. And then...not much changed. Science is, at its heart, competitive and there is no benefit f ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2015 - 3:55pm

For 2016, Social Robots Unveiled

Nadine, a friendly human-like robot at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore will greet you back and shake your hand. Unlike conventional robots, the inventors say Nadine has her own personality, mood and emotions, and the next time you meet her, s ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2016 - 1:27pm

The Snowmastodon Project

While expanding a reservoir in Snowmass Village, Colorado, construction workers stumbled upon a big bone. And then another, and another, and another.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2016 - 7:31am

Electric 'Batmobile' Shows Chinese Want To Be In The Supercar Market

Despite not actually having a car in production, the firm Faraday Future has headline-writers gushing about its “Tesla-killing supercar” – an all-electric car that looks like the Batmobile. There is no doubting that the FFZero1 concept car just unveiled a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 10 2016 - 8:30am

'Spermbots'- Motorized Artificial Insemination

Sperm that don't swim well rank high among the main causes of infertility but these cells may get a boost from motorized "spermbots" that can deliver poor swimmers-- that are otherwise healthy-- to an egg.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 12:38pm

Anti-GPS: New Smartphone App 'Hides' User Location

An app that blocks third parties from identifying an individual's location based on what they search for online received a "best paper" award at the recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) GLOBECOM Conference, Sympos ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 2:41pm