Recent research performed by the Centers for Disease Control and the Pew Charitable Trust has found that antibiotics are being over prescribed and that over 30% are really useless and not needed. It is one of the most intensive and thorough studies ever done on the subject and the results have been published in JAMA. In …
Watching three fictional physicists and an engineer sitting around in an episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory playing Klingon Boggle is one thing but writing a legal brief in the fictional language? It turns out that The Language Creation Society, based in California, has done just that. The society, they state, is dedicated to …
The Microsoft Corporation has recently announced that it will begin research and development in an effort to create manufactured DNA to use as a storage facility. The company announced that it will be working on the project with a recent bio-tech startup company called Twist Bioscience. Microsoft researchers have been working with a research team …
A scientific research team of German and American scientists have reported that a new antibody produced in a laboratory has protected macaques monkeys from being afflicted with a strain of simian HIV. The potential for a vaccine is highly anticipated as the monkeys who were treated with the antibody were shielded from the virus for …
Recently, the Autism Society welcomed fifty specially invited guests to a private conference in San Francisco in an effort to determine how high technology will be able to assist children with autism. The event was sponsored by the United Bank of Scotland. Scott Badesch, CEO of the Autism Society believes that such emerging technology as …
About fifteen years ago, the federal government set up one of its famous task forces. This one was to establish how vulnerable the Defense Department might be to a cyber attack. The conclusions, all 180 pages of them, declared that there were vulnerabilities all over the place. What does that have to do with the …
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has just released 300 terabytes of data that has been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider. That data has been released online through the organization’s Open Data Portal. The scientists at CERN are asking the public to analyse the data and see what they can come up with. …
Robots, it seems are here to stay. Some are, anyway. Most recent attempts at integrating robots into the everyday human world have not been all that successful. For instance, in China, several restaurants in a couple of their major cities have been experimenting with robot servers for quite some time. It just doesn’t seem to work …
Two hundred miles from the Earth, British astronaut Tim Peake ran, and finished, the London Marathon on Sunday from the International Space Station. He ran 26.2 miles in a time of 3:35:21. Not only did he accomplish the feat, but, via video link up, he officially started the race. The challenge with running the London …
Most people probably love the romantic image of being a musician and songwriter. One whose lyrics and melodies touch people in their hearts, minds and souls. But learning how to play an instrument is a lot of time, money and stress for people who work, go to school, have children or are learning other things. …