Unless you’ve been on Mars since the release of the iPhone 4, you surely know that they’ve had problems with the phone’s signal. The difficulty has been blamed on user error (“Dude, you’re holding…

Watch out, Jayson Blair - there's a new sheriff in town, and it's going to cross-reference your work to make sure you haven't plagiarized your material. Plagiarism, using others' work but putting it…

According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University, the Internet will do more social good than…

By optimizing magnets, hybrid and electric cars can be made economically competitive, according to a research project currently underway at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria.…

Here’s another cute gadget, shown to us in the NY Times Gadgetwise blog: Size AA rechargeable batteries with built-in USB plugs, so you can plug the batteries directly into your computer to charge…

Biotechnology in the last decade has been continually driven forward by the relentless economical desires of the ever-growing biopharmaceutical industry, creating innovative technologies that have…

Here’s an amusing little device that Eric Taub writes about in the New York Times: All of this is why a new product from Zomm may wind up hitting a nerve. A small electronic disc that fits on a key…

Despite some of the more outrageous claims to the contrary, SecondLife, while an abstract 3-D world, is not actually a teaching platform.   It had its moment and devolved rather quickly into…

I introduce the term "topological identity of computer programs" and show it in relation to halting problem and similar problems - what we need to detect in code to suspect it? I think that…

Remote access ... for lab equipment?     Labshare Australia wants to create a shared network of remote laboratories.  Yep, with costs going up - and science and hospitals are two…