Technology
- Encyclopedia Of Life Second Edition Debuts
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The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a free, online collaborative tool, is expanded in its second edition released today, offering information on more than one-third of all known species on Earth. EOLv2 has 20 times as many pages as when the EOL.org first laun ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2011 - 11:55am
- DNA Tests For Deer Poachers, Because That Is A Big Concern (If The Year Is 1228)
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The Sheriff of Nottingham will be pleased. It only took 800 years, but poachers can now be tracked down through tests for human DNA on deer remains, according to research led by scientists at the University of Strathclyde. Aside from being silly, since mos ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2011 - 3:44pm
- Tracking The Ghosts Of Surfers Past
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Deep Web Interferometry compares curves in trendlines from synchronized multiple data sources. Interferometric analysis of Web metrics data increases the clarity of meaningful data points by isolating events. For example, given two Websites that track a ...
Article - Michael Martinez - Sep 12 2011 - 11:29pm
- BioRap: Artificial Blood Cells From A Printer
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A 3-D inkjet printer can generate 3-dimensional solids from a wide variety of materials very quickly by applying the material in layers of defined shape and then bonding these layers are with UV radiation. It can create microstructures but 3-D printing te ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2011 - 12:35pm
- Not Science Fiction: The Road Map To Organ Transplants With No Waiting List
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In early July, Karolinska University Hospital issued a press release about a successful trachea transplant using synthetic tissue. It got mainstream media coverage and it was interesting, I thought, but evolutionary and not revolutionary. We had covered ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 24 2011 - 11:35pm
- Liion confusion
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Recently there appeared a Science 2.0 Article Algae-Based Polymer May Boost Li-Ion Battery Performance, and shortly afterwards I got an email drawing my attention to what I thought was the same work, but in fact is a different piece of work, from Leeds Uni ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 16 2011 - 10:41am
- Retroviral Protease Solution: A Big Win For Science 2.0
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A retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade has been solved by researchers who called on the participatory cornerstone of Science 2.0 for help. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2011 - 2:06pm
- Science 2.0: Kids Crowdsource The Search For Apollo 10's Lost Lunar Module
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Apollo 11 and giant leaps for mankind get all the love now but the missions leading up to it brought their own excitement- and a mystery. In May 1969, two months before man walked on the Moon, Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young a ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 19 2011 - 5:25pm
- New Transistor Can Communicate With Living Things
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Devices that monitor the human body's processes are being researched and tested for biological sensing or for prosthetics but materials scientists at the University of Washington have taken that a step farther. They have built a transistor that uses ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 12:09pm
- Facebook Changes: Is There A Negative Reaction Or Is It Competitor Hype?
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A poll on Mashable, unscientific but a talking point anyway, found nearly 75-percent saying they "hate" the Facebook news feed changes. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 23 2011 - 12:42pm
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