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Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute are developing plastic chips that can perform the same basic functions as human organs.

Day-Glo Velocirabbit / Bacteriograph of Albasaurus, E. coli genetically modified to express GFP Zachary Copfer Bioart at first seemed to be such a novelty. [More]

It is rather odd how often I hear the expression paradigm shift during contemporary scientific presentations and seminars. The expression was popularized by Thomas Kuhn s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions .

In Raleigh, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has been building its Nature Research Center, a brand new extension to the museum focusing not just on science but on how science is done.

Recently an old colleague, Dr Andrew Rogoyski, came to lecture to our MSc students on how government deals with cyber security. Dr Rogoyski has studied the interactions between government and industry and his talk led to a key question for which there was a surprising range of views

James Cameron, who proclaimed himself the “king of the world” upon winning three Oscars for his 1997 film Titanic , can now proclaim himself king of the underworld as well. On Monday the moviemaker became the first solo aquanaut to reach the deepest recess of the Mariana Trench , touching down at the Challenger Deep site about 11 kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

[First, you may want to read The Promise & Perils of Pinterest by Glendon and Pinterest Terms of Service: Word by Terrifying Word by Kalliopi. There's also a Link Round-Up on The Flying Trilobite.] [More]

In many parts of the U.S. and here in New York City, we ve had the pleasure of experiencing above-normal temperatures, and the sunshine has brought hibernating city-dwellers outdoors to soak up the warm rays while enjoying a number of activities jogging, playing basketball, riding bicycles, or just lounging on park benches. Over the weekend, I was running along the East River when a man rolled by and caught my eye.

In many parts of the U.S. and here in New York City, we ve had the pleasure of experiencing above-normal temperatures, and the sunshine has brought hibernating city-dwellers outdoors to soak up the warm rays while enjoying a number of activities jogging, playing basketball, riding bicycles, or just lounging on park benches. Over the weekend, I was running along the East River when a man rolled by and caught my eye.

Even making this image for this blog post violates Pinterest's rules. The Promise – a bold credited, copyright future [More]

MINERvA detector. Credit: FNAL Neutrinos are having a moment.

Scanning tunnelling microscope image of a silicon surface lithographically prepared for two electrodes and a single transistor atom in the center. Credit: ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication, at UNSW The shift from fragile, bulky vacuum tubes to solid-state transistors paved the way for the information age. And the steady downsizing of transistors has made the devices of the information age ubiquitous, thanks to processors that become smaller, cheaper and faster with each passing year.

With the launch of a “national” more censored version of the Internet only a few weeks away in Iran, users are already reporting increasingly limited access to certain Web sites and Web security features. A number of Internet users in Iran have for the past few days reported difficulty connecting to Web sites housed on servers outside of that country, as well as blocked access to sites such as Google and Yahoo, and to any encrypted Internet traffic, according to Iran Media Program , a project of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. The timing coincides with potential protests to mark the first anniversary of the house arrest of lead opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.

As you know from my last post , I am staunch proponent of open access to scientific information, especially the variety that I paid for by virtue of taxation . The Research Works Act ( HR3699 ) being proposed now will lock away taxpayer funded research from the hands of those whose hard-earned wages funded the research. It’s really a no-brainer and the NIH compromise was generous, allowing publishers to make a profit from research works for a whole year, during the crucial access time for new articles

LAS VEGAS Microsoft kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday night here much as the company has done since its first CES keynote in 1998 extolling the virtues of Windows and promising big things from its operating system in the future.