A non-invasive disease detection facility has been unveiled  for use in Leicester Royal Infirmary's A&E department.  It will detect the "sight, smell and feel" of disease without the…

To celebrate a half year of effort, this is a blog on weekly blogging. Three tangibles are created by the process: the Science20 blog, a YouTube videoblog, and a chapter in a book of blogs (still…

A research project aims to improve the control of robot movements with the help of new mathematical approaches.  New developments in the areas of motion planning, computer-aided design and…

Webometrics faces many challenges, not the least of which is a dearth of tools capable of measuring the Web with any degree of accuracy.  Most academic and professional Webometrics analysts…

A robot named MABEL was created in a University of Michigan lab but 'she' can run like a human, up to 6.8 miles per hour. Unless HYDRA and SHIELD exist in secret underground lairs, MABEL is the world…

At Science 2.0 we are not big fans of being clever just for the sake of being clever - we were smart kids and there are smart kids today and the belief by government funding agencies that STEM…

National Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs. Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy.  Supposedly the rationale was that these…

Five years into the Science 2.0 experiment I can tell you down to the eyeball how many people are involved in the communication pillar of it - but in the collaboration realm, it's not so easy.…

In the modern world, even residents of London generate more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data than human operators can collate and that can severely limit the ability of an…

What is the shape of a Website?  How does one determine "shape" from a collection of links and electronic files?  Web designers, search engineers, and marketing consultants use geometric…