Technology

Titan 80-300 Cubed: The World's Most Advanced Microscope Goes To School

The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet—capable of unprecedented resolution—has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University. Introduced last year, it is called the Titan 80-300 Cubed- “c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2008 - 1:06pm

Biometric Encryption- Using Only Pictures From Your Mobile Phone

Phones can do almost anything these days- photos, music, television- but safely protecting biometric data is something new.   Ileana Buhan, a PhD student at the University of Twente, has been researching this new way of employing biometrics. She receives h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 8:44pm

'Organic' Electronics: Self-Assembling Wires May Mimic Human Tissue

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by org ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2008 - 12:52pm

I'd love to go paperless

Spending all day reading from a computer monitor is a drag. By the end of the day reading from a monitor drives me crazy, which means that I end up printing out hard copies of way too many papers. Amazon's Kindle looks like an intriguing solution, but ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 23 2008 - 3:41pm

Bite Splint Wirelessly Lets Paraplegics Play Piano With The Foot Pedals

A wish could come true for paraplegics who play the piano and are paralyzed from the hips down: Heidelberg researcher Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Rupp has developed a method with which a pianist can operate the right pedal of a concert grand wirelessly – a first in t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2008 - 10:22am

My favourite games

One of the reasons I was interested in giving some comments on the science in Spore is that I am a big fan of video games but rarely have a chance to play anymore. The discussion about Spore (which I wasn't asked to evaluate as a game per se) got me t ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 25 2008 - 7:13pm

"Science Spore?"

I came across this interesting forum on Spore. I hope SpongB6F1 won't mind if I quote this posting at length, as I think it is very insightful. "Science Spore" would be ideal.... I think many people will claim that although some kind of abst ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 26 2008 - 12:50pm

Rosetta Genomics Leverages Its MicroRNA Platform Technologies To Launch Plant Biotech Initiative

Rosetta Genomics Ltd (Nasdaq:ROSG), a developer of microRNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics, announced today it has launched Rosetta Green, a microRNA-based plant biotechnology project. Rosetta Green will leverage the extensive knowledge gained at Rose ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2008 - 12:50am

Mini 11- World's Smallest Mass Spectrometer Sniffs Out Bioterrorism And Explosives

Researchers in Indiana have completed development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), the Mini 11, a miniature version of a standard lab device (some of which would dominate a living room)  to identify tiny amounts of chemicals in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 12:04pm

Welcome To The Digital Dark Ages

If we gave you data from NASA's 1976 Viking landing on Mars, could you read it?   No, and neither can anyone else.   Some of the data collected is already unreadable and lost forever.  According to the National Archives Web site, by the mid-1970s only ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 4:05pm