Technology

How To Improve Internet Security- 20th Century Radio Technology

Imagine communicating with your bank, the IRS or your doctor by way of an Internet that was actually secure, where if any bad actor were to try to eavesdrop you would know immediately. Such is the promise of secure quantum communication, and has been sinc ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 12:13pm

TV A Top Source Of Political News For Caucus-Goers- And Everyone Else

Political journalists will file countless reports from Iowa in the final days leading up to the caucuses, much of based on polls. Another poll, this one by the Iowa State University/WHO-HD Iowa Caucus Poll, finds that voters rely on a variety of these rep ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2016 - 8:00am

OFF! Clip-On Device May Protect Against Mosquitoes That Transmit Zika

A product called the OFF! Clip-On repellent device could be an effective tool for preventing bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector of Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever, though DEET, a permethrin or even good old-fashioned DDT ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2016 - 4:51pm

Wiki Woes: Websites For Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Are Inaccurate And Outdated

After evaluating content on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on almost 200 websites, researchers found that the information on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) from these sites was often incomplete, inaccurate and outdated.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2016 - 7:00am

The Doctor-Less Hospital Future

Imagine your child requires a life-saving operation. You enter the hospital and are confronted with a stark choice. Do you take the traditional path with human medical staff, including doctors and nurses, where long-term trials have shown a 90% chance tha ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 9 2016 - 7:30am

Artificial Intelligence May Tell Us What's Going To Be Big In Science This Year

Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in being able to understand what the future will look like when it comes to scientific and technological emergences. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2016 - 12:04pm

The 10 catastrophic mistakes virtual reality firms are making

I HAVE A VIRTUAL REALITY machine in my fridge. It’s a banoffee pie, and when I eat two of them in the dark while listening to the Beatles’ White Album, I am far, far away on another planet, no hardware necessary.             But the global tech industry d ...

Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Feb 12 2016 - 9:20pm

Block Yik Yak? Thought Control At Colleges Should Not Be Done So Casually

Some colleges have called for the banning of Yik Yak, is a hyperloca social media application in which users centered around a geographic area can post anonymously. They want to ban it because it can be used to do a lot of positive things, but also some n ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2016 - 3:30pm

Embracing Science Would Take EU Agriculture Halfway Towards 2050 Climate Targets

Agriculture is one of the few areas where government regulations have not caused costs to boom with little value to the public. In the past few decades, American science and technology have produced more food on less land with less environmental strain th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2016 - 11:52am

Public-Friendly Open Science

In the 21st century science is growing more technical and complex, as we gaze further and further while standing on the shoulders of many generations of giants. At the same time the public has a hard time understanding research and its relevance to societ ...

Article - Matteo Cantiello - Feb 25 2016 - 12:56pm