Technology

2016: Streaming High-Definition Video From The Moon

It takes about 90 minutes to transmit a high-resolution image from Mars, but a new NASA optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate in 2016 will be so much faster it will even allow the streaming of high-definition video from distances be ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2011 - 4:28pm

Robo-Cerebellum: The Rat With A Robot Brain

We've all read about efforts to provide amputees with robotic limbs and we know that  deep brain stimulation can relieve a range of Parkinson and OCD symptoms- a Tel Aviv University researcher has combined those ideas and gone a step farther and succ ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2011 - 1:10pm

A Search In Time Is A Memorable Path

"Search.  The final frontier.  These are the voyages of the frustrated Web surfer.  Its five-year mission: To explore strange new content, to seek out new ideas and new expressions.  To boldly know when someone is pulling our leg or being sincere.&quo ...

Article - Michael Martinez - Oct 5 2011 - 7:08pm

Back To The Future II- Your Flying Hoverboard Arrives Four Years Early

Who says mathematics papers can't be practical?   Noah T. Jafferis, Howard A. Stone, and James C. Sturm of Princeton took a theoretical shot at a flying hoverboard and made it work- except it is a 4-inch conductive plastic sheet that “flies” using tra ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 5 2011 - 11:20am

Computational Linguistics: Figuring Out Who Wrote The Bible

In Jewish and Christian tradition, Moses wrote the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Recent evidence shows that multiple writers had a hand in composing the text of the Torah and the other books of the Hebrew Bible and of the New Testament are als ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2011 - 12:47pm

Design Not Great Priority For Laptop Users

PARIS, October 12, 2011  -- Users and reviewers of comparison site dooyoo.co.uk have given a big thumbs up to one of Samsung's biggest 2011 laptops released on the market, and indicated that laptop users are favoring substance over style in their con ...

Article - Newswire - Oct 12 2011 - 10:43am

Finding Bad Apples- Using Artificial Vision

Rotten oranges can be detected manually in dark rooms with the help of ultraviolet light that illuminates the essential oils in damaged rind through fluorescence but that type of light poses some risk on fruit quality, like a reduction in vitamin C. Scient ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2011 - 8:55am

Zombies: The Safer Terrorists

How can you test for disaster without freaking out all your co-workers?  Assume the best way to test for a disaster is to simulate it.  Now factor in that a typical co-worker, if they overhead that a chlorine tanker overturned in DC or that terrorists are ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 26 2011 - 2:31pm

Smart Skin- Low Power Electronics Get Human

Low power electronics and devices for active, modern lifestyles is getting edgy; the research is on for stuff that is wearable, epidermal, implantable- heck, even edible. Smart skin, created by MC10, is an example of an 'epidermal electronic system. I ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2011 - 1:00pm

Want To Pick Your Baby's Gender? Now You Can Enjoy A Vacation In Cyprus Too

Just can't stand the thought of having another daughter, or even a first one?  People in Europe and the Middle East who can rationalize they want to "balance" their family or minimize the risk of certain genetic diseases have a new option: ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2011 - 3:28pm