TheSkyNet, a community computing project dedicated to astronomy that was initiated by the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Western Australia,  is…

Robotic researchers are refining control algorithms for robotic swarms based upon data from five free online games that anyone can play. In the games, players use simple commands to move groups of…

Medicine of the 21st century is getting a hand from an idea Henry Ford had in the 19th century and implemented in 1908 - the concept of continuous mass production. Billions of tablets, capsules…

While the Plantagenets are getting all of the attention in England these days due to the discovery of Richard III's remains (though the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family currently holding the…

Bruce Schneier needs to watch the movie "Battleship" more desperately than any moron in history.  He may know a lot about security systems in technology but his efforts to undermine the US…

If you have ever been trading a flurry of text messages with someone and there was an awkward pause, don't assume they are doing some work or have a life, you probably should be suspicious. An…

A new control suite with a microprocessor, wireless radio, GPS receiver, and an attitude and heading reference system gives lazy dog owners  a way to command their pets with a remote control, or…

Syphilis has become a serious health issue (again) in Latin American countries, with 3 million cases. Every year 330,000 pregnant women with syphilis receive no treatment, resulting in 110,000…

With increased regulation, the overwhelming chance of failure and lawsuits looming for each new treatment, it's little surprise that the private sector is abandoning medical research - or at least…

A technique from Case Western Reserve University seeks to address two challenges inherent in brain-implantation technology; gaging the property changes that occur during implantation and measuring on…