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Ever tried to get hold of a professional who can write computer code? Such is the shortage, that a recent would-be returning ex-pat Kiwi, who knew how to program, put out a general inquiry through WellRailed if anyone in Wellington … Continue reading →
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A group contends that the journal impact factor (JIF), which ranks scholarly journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, has increasingly become an obsession in science. Impact factor of articles is used in evaluating research for funding, hiring, promotion, or institutional effectiveness.
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Ancient water below Canadian gold mines may offer new clues about evolution—and new life forms here on Earth.
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Last week, someone announced that they had 3D printed a gun. Why don’t we remind ourselves how they can also inspire young inventors?
The heartwarming story of an 11-year-old and his 3D printer, via On The Media.
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An MD-200 Quadrotor Two years ago Google purchased one of these quadrotors from German manufacturer Microdrones wikimedia commons The company's venture capital arm has just made a big investment in unmanned systems. Echoing a company belief in autonomous systems, clever algorithms, and replacing fallible humans with smart machines, Google's venture capital arm announced yesterday that it is investing $10.7 million in a company that makes drone brains. The company, Airware, builds autopilots
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Thrifty Thursdays feature photographs taken with equipment costing less than $500. [HP deskjet F4280 printer/scanner - $150] This week’s inexpensive photo project makes use of a desktop scanner to translate a living plant into a digital specimen. Creating virtual natural history collections is an activity well-suited for elementary school science classrooms, for children old enough [...]
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Belatchew's STRAWSCRAPER vision for Södermalm's South Tower in Stockholm, Sweden Belatchew Arkitekter In the future, all buildings will resemble massive toilet brushes. Perhaps not, but that's the net-zero energy future of skyscrapers envisioned by Belatchew Arkitekter in an idea called STRAWSCRAPER which, in spite of the toilet brush comparison, is actually pretty cool. The general idea here is to cover tall buildings in a skin covered with piezoelectric fibers that harvest energy to
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Belatchew's STRAWSCRAPER vision for Södermalm's South Tower in Stockholm, Sweden Belatchew Arkitekter The, erm, splashy future of skyscrapers In the future, all buildings will resemble massive toilet brushes. Perhaps not, but that's the net-zero energy future of skyscrapers envisioned by Belatchew Arkitekter in an idea called STRAWSCRAPER which, in spite of the toilet brush comparison, is actually pretty cool. The general idea here is to give tall buildings a skin of piezoelectric fibers
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Remotely Piloted Jetstream ASTRAEA Up, up, and away-without a pilot. The great thing about robots is that they take boring, repetitive tasks from humans, which frees up our superior minds for more creative endeavors (like building more robots.) Flying a commercial airplane, much like driving down long stretches of undifferentiated Eurasian steppe or piloting a cargo helicopter back and forth over the same route, typically consists of a few moments of human input mixed in with long stretches of
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D-Wave Quantum Computer D-Wave Why not use a crazy sci-fi technology (quantum computing) to solve a classic crazy sci-fi problem (artificial intelligence)? Google announced today a partnership with NASA and D-Wave to launch a lab to solve artificial intelligence problems with the aid of quantum computing. Quantum computing is in its infancy, but it's still very tough to wrap one's head around. Here's one way to think of it: traditional computers complete calculations based on bits. A bit can
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Kepler Might Be On It's Last Leg NASA Scott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center, speculates on how NASA could revive the ailing space telescope. Yesterday NASA officials confirmed that the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope had suffered a mechanical failure, throwing into question the telescope's ability to continue its mission. But Kepler is not dead just yet. Speaking to Stanford News Service, consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics Scott
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Step out into the darkness a few hours after sunset. What do you see overhead? If you live in a relatively unpopulated part of the world, you might see the broad stripe of the Milky Way splashed against a backdrop of black sky punctuated by countless stars. If, on the other hand, you live in [...]
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March to the Heat Soldiers walk on a treadmill in the tropical chamber. Courtesy of the U.S. Army The Army fires up a sunshine simulator. Each year, some 20 soldiers experience Afghanistan's 118°F heat for the first time not in the field but in a lab in Natick, Massachusetts. For six decades, the Doriot Climatic Chambers has created everything from deserts to blizzards to test equipment before real-world deployment-and it's the U.S.'s only military lab that uses human volunteers to do it.
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The top 10 stories on our radar today: Scientists have created stem cells from cloned human embryos, 1.5-billion-year-old water has been found in a deep Canadian mine, and...
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Computers are everywhere these days. They play us music, tell us when to wake up, remind us that we’re late for an appointment, and provide us with entertainment. Even if we don’t realise it, so ingrained in our lives are [...]testThe post Quantum computing: Australian researchers store data on a single atom! appeared first on Australian Science.
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Computers are everywhere these days. They play us music, tell us when to wake up, remind us that we’re late for an appointment, and provide us with entertainment. Even if we don’t realise it, so ingrained in our lives are [...]testThe post Quantum computing: Australian researchers store data on a single atom! appeared first on Australian Science.
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Enjoy the newest Video of the Week! - Karen Lips – What if there is no happy ending? Science communication as a path to change - Jag Bhalla – Tools Are In Our Nature - Samuel McNerney – The Bias Within The Bias - Jason G. Goldman – Cognitive Chickens and Memorable [...]
