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During 2011’s deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable. The events served as a reminder that most structures are still inspected by a decidedly low-tech method: the naked eye.
Read More »How Can You Worship An Entrepreneur On Sunday and Step Over One on Monday?
All week, impromptu memorials have been popping up at Apple stores throughout America to commemorate the man who gave Apple life, Steve Jobs.
Read More »Video: Choosing the best health care options
Russ Mitchell talks with Consumer Reports senior program editor, Nancy Metcalf, and Prevention Magazine contributing editor, Dr.
Read More »Spherical Eats
A few years ago the renowned chef Ferran Adri
Read More »How much can the brain recover from years of excessive alcohol consumption?
How much can the brain recover from years of excessive alcohol consumption? --Paul Howlen, London [More]
Read More »Sensors and the City: IBM Exhibit Visualizes Today’s Urban Problems–and Potential Solutions [Slide Show]
At first glance the mammoth screen running down a former parking ramp at Lincoln Center looks like something on loan from Times Square, about a dozen blocks to the south.
Read More »Heightened HIV Risk from Hormonal Contraceptives Long Suspected
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The recent finding that women in seven sub-Saharan Africa countries are nearly twice as likely to acquire HIV if they use a popular, long-acting injectable contraceptive, has incensed AIDS researchers. [More]
Read More »Heightened HIV Risk from Hormonal Contraceptives Long Suspected
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The recent finding that women in seven sub-Saharan Africa countries are nearly twice as likely to acquire HIV if they use a popular, long-acting injectable contraceptive, has incensed AIDS researchers. [More]
Read More »Rapid PCR Could Bring Quick Diagnoses
PCR--the polymerase chain reaction--is a crucial tool. The DNA amplification technique is used in genome sequencing, forensics and the diagnosis of various diseases. To give researchers more genetic material to work with, a PCR instrument repeatedly heats and cools an original biological sample
Read More »Ada Lovelace Day-Meet the founder of Bioinformatics, Margaret Dayhoff
Ada Lovelace Day allows us an opportunity to highlight the work of women in science.
Read More »Ada Lovelace Day-Meet the founder of Bioinformatics, Margaret Dayhoff
Ada Lovelace Day allows us an opportunity to highlight the work of women in science.
Read More »New iPhone Carriers Aim To Control, Or Profit From, Mobile Data Consumption
Since the iPhone first arrived on the scene, it has been used to access mobile data like no other device before it .
Read More »Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Lady Ada Lovelace was a contemporary and colleague of Charles Babbage , he innovator of the programmable
Read More »This Week In Bots: Think You Better Dance Now
ASIMO Dances Honda's child-sized android may be the world's best-known real-world robot, even though his practical white paint job isn't as snazzy as C3PO's gold-plated goodness. Over the years, ASIMO's skills have gotten ever more spohisticated as Honda's research scientists look at improving his software, drive units, and sensors to give him better control over his body, and more artificial intelligence to let him manuever under his own control and navigate around unexpected objects (the kind of task androids will need to master if they're to help us in our homes or hospitals). But now the Automaton blog has seen a demonstration that ASIMO is now smart enough to copy your dance moves
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