Bill Gates Backs "Open Science" Social Network ResearchGate In Push For Nobel Prize
Scientific social network ResearchGate wants to win a Nobel Prize and turn science on its head. Bill Gates is buying in.
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Articles tagged "Science"
Tue, 4 June 2013
Fri, 8 March 2013
Female SF Writers Look Back To The Future For Women's History Month
Female science fiction and fantasy authors talk about the genre, being a woman in the mostly male-dominated science fiction realm…
Wed, 20 February 2013
Sergey Brin & Mark Zuckerberg Team Up On $33 Million Science Prize
Facebook's boy-king and Google's visionary co-founder are working together on a $33 million science fair of sorts.
Tue, 12 February 2013
The Exploratorium's Experience Experts Deliver Awesome iPad App
It takes 40 years of user experience wizardry to build a museum app this amazing.
Tue, 22 January 2013
What Would You Look Like As An Early Hominid?
Could Mick Jagger really be a flash-frozen caveman rescued from a peat bog in the 1950s?
Fri, 18 January 2013
Would You Give Birth To A Neandertal Baby?
A Harvard scientist aims to bring the caveman back to life. He just needs a surrogate mom.
Thu, 10 January 2013
How Everyone Has Mind Control Backward - And How It Really Works
Mind control is the future - and it's way, way bigger than playing games.
Tue, 11 September 2012
Intel Dabbles In Science Fiction
Computers that simply do the sames things faster and faster are becoming boring. Been there, done that. But a device that can detect and…
Fri, 7 September 2012
How Brain Defects Increase Online Gullibility
In these enlightened times, you may think that the average Internet user is too sophisticated to be suckered in by online scams. But cyber…
Tue, 7 August 2012
NASA Expanding Into Apps, More Video Games
When Mars rover Curiosity touched down Sunday, August 5th, it was more than a technological triumph for the space agency; it was another…
Mon, 23 July 2012
Video: Now You Can Travel Back & Forth Through Time on Google Earth
Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite program. It’s the longest-running continuous program capturing satellite images…
Thu, 19 July 2012
Internet Eggheads Ready Superfast Innovation Platform
The world’s first software-defined network (SDN) is one step closer to being launched, as more than 300 network engineers gather at…
Thu, 31 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Tractor Beams & Smelly People
Today's theme is mad scientists. In covering tech, we tend to focus on the products, the problems and the money. But arguably the most…
Tue, 29 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: An Army of Robot Fish
Today's theme is R&D. Even in seemingly calamitous times, there's still mind-boggling technological progress rolling out. It hasn't…
Thu, 24 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Building the Real-Life Starship Enterprise
Today's theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun. iPads get close, but it's quite another thing to build actual space…
Mon, 21 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: The Animals Are Pwning Us
Today's theme is wild technology. We homo sapiens-type people are proud of our technology, but we'd better give credit where credit is…
Wed, 16 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Bionic Eyes That Can See Clearly
Today's theme is improving on life. Nature did a pretty good job of engineering some hardy life forms. But now we're able to tinker with…
Tue, 15 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Watch Out for Zombie Drones
Today's theme is do it yourself. You know that saying, "If you want something done right... " Well, sometimes the status quo won't bring the…
Mon, 14 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: How To Seduce a Robot
Today's theme is missing pieces. We fancy ourselves to be a pretty smart species. But when you get down to the fundamentals, we don't…
Thu, 10 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Are You Ready to Wear Your Computers?
Today's theme is future material. Before we can invent the next generation of technologies, we have to invent the materials to make…
Mon, 7 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Growing Up Cyborg
Today's theme is growing up cyborg. We hope that technology will usher in the next phase of human development, but our cyborg…
Thu, 3 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: What We Don't Know
Today's theme is what we don't know. Scientists are staring out into the vastness of space and down at the tiniest particles, trying to…
Wed, 2 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Life Forms
Today's theme is life forms. We use technology to improve ourselves, but underneath all the gadgets and wires, we're still the same…
Tue, 1 May 2012
Read/Write Daily: Creative Destruction
Today's theme is creative destruction. Unfortunately, many of the most important technological innovations start off as weapons of war…
