Technology

Adam Qadmon, Meet Adam Robot: He Just Made His First Discovery

Scientists, this is your future research partner.    A 'Robot Scientist' named Adam has been created and the group behind it believe it is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. Adam is a computer system that ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2009 - 4:36pm

Want To Know What Other Science Bloggers Will Be Writing About In A Few Days? Then go...

On March 30th, Josh Witten told us about a new site, The Jenny McCarthy Body Count.  He's apparently not a fan of Jenny, no matter what she looks like.   I am not sure I understand that kind of thinking but whatever... On April 2nd, uber-blogger of Di ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 6 2009 - 8:35pm

Sun Dial- Mobile Phone App Alerts Muslims About Prayer Times

If you're a Muslim and you're worried that debating your NCAA March Madness championship tie-breaker scenarios at work will cause you to miss a prayer time... well, okay, you're not doing that because designing technological devices for rel ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 12:34am

Robots Are Going To Change The Jobs Of Researchers

As science fiction plot lines go, the unintended consequences of yielding tasks too complicated or dangerous for human hands to computers and robots is a popular one. Yet real life scientists are increasingly doing just that, creating automated systems an ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 4:30pm

WASP- A Programming Language For Wireless Sensors Even Scientists Can Use

A new, simpler programming language for wireless sensor networks, written with the novice programmer in mind, can be used by geologists for monitoring volcanoes and biologists who rely on them to understand birds' nesting behaviors. Finding an embedde ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2009 - 2:06pm

Garage Biology Is Here Already

One more book to pile on my to-read list. Via Carl Zimmer (go follow the link for a bloggingheads video interview), a fascinating book on bioengineering, Learning to Fly, by Rob Carlson, is coming out this fall. He has some insightful thoughts: ...

Article - Michael White - Apr 7 2009 - 3:16pm

IBone Brings (Trom)Bone To IPhone

Spoonjack today announced iBone-- the Pocket Trombone for iPhone and iPod Touch. iBone lets users play along with music in their iTunes library and with songs from the iBone Songbook and even shows them how. iBone combines an instrument, band, and trainer ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2009 - 9:16pm

World's Largest Frickin' Laser Gets The Green Light (Next Stop- Fusion)

If we tell you the next laser in the works by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will be the size of a football stadium and will have 192 individual beams, each about 40 centimeters square, beaming into a spot about one-half millimeter in ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2009 - 10:21am

New Scientific Blogging SWAG

The first batch of newly designed Scientific Blogging logo stuff arrived today.   What do we have?   For biology writers, an excellent 'Lysis To Kill' logo.   For generally awesome people, a 'Certified Jenius' adornment let's every ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2019 - 3:36pm

No Biopsy Needed: Cancer Diagnosis Using Just A Drop Of Blood

A drop of blood or a chunk of tissue smaller than the period at the end of this sentence may one day be all that is necessary to diagnose cancers and assess their response to treatment, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In a Na ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2009 - 8:45pm