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Scientists on Unparticle Hunt Give Earth a Spin February 23, 2013 
The CERN team in Switzerland uses the Large Hadron Collider to search for the elusive Higgs-Boson. A small team of researchers led by Larry Hunter, a professor of physics at
Amherst College, can top them in one aspect: It is using the entire planet as a particle detector that could open up new areas of physics.
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Canon Gets Uncannily Real With New Mixed Reality Tech February 21, 2013 
Canon officially launched its new MREAL System for Mixed Reality on Wednesday. Unlike traditional virtual reality-type systems that essentially block out the real world, this new imaging solution simultaneously merges virtual objects with those of the real world at full scale and in three dimensions.
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1-2 Celestial Punch Raises Questions About Space Object Defenses February 16, 2013 
A blazing meteor streaked across the skies of Russia on Thursday, leaving a large smoke trail in its wake before blowing up over the remote town of Chelyabinsk in the Ural mountains. More than 1,000 people reported injuries, and windows across the region were shattered by a deafening sonic boom.
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Landsat 8 Pushes the Earth-Monitoring Envelope February 12, 2013 
Landsat 8, loaded with several technological advancements for better data-gathering, blasted off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using an Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance. The latest satellite in the 41-year-old Landsat program has enhanced capabilities to record the changes happening on the planet.
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Big Blue Breaks Into Biotech With Bacteria-Blasting Hydrogel January 29, 2013 
Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed what they are calling the first antimicrobial hydrogel that is biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic. The hydrogel, which can penetrate diseased biofilms and eradicate drug-resistant bacteria upon contact, has applications ranging from antimicrobial cleaners to therapeutic delivery agents to tissue engineering.
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Google, the EU and Competition: Speaking Different Languages January 29, 2013 
Back in December, European regulators warned Google that they expected concrete proposals to allay antitrust concerns by January. Well, January is almost over, and it sounds like regulators are still convinced that Google is abusing its search engine dominance. The European Commission is also investigating Google's attempts to seek and enforce injunctions against certain Apple and Microsoft products.
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DNA Could Become the Next Big Data Warehouse January 25, 2013 
Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute on Wednesday announced their success at storing data by encoding it to DNA. The system could stand the test of time -- tens of thousands of years, perhaps. This method for archiving data could make it possible to store 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA, and given the trend toward Big Data, that could be a major breakthrough.
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Fleet of FireFlies to Probe Space for Mineral-Rich Asteroids January 24, 2013 
Deep Space Industries on Tuesday announced plans to launch a robotic fleet to scour space for asteroids that can be mined. The company will send out its FireFly spacecraft in 2015 on journeys of two-to-six months. DSI will build the 55-lb. FireFlies using CubeSat technology. The company will work with NASA and other partners to identify targets of opportunity.
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Electronic Health Records Performance Lags Behind Potential January 23, 2013 
Major programs designed to reduce costs and improve healthcare through the automation of medical records have fallen short of the potential to do either, according to a recent Rand Corp. report. The effort to convert paper health documents to electronic form got a huge boost from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
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All Things Appy: 5 Best iOS Health and Fitness Apps January 23, 2013 
Many of us have got health and fitness on the mind as the new year gets under way, and the smartphone is proving itself to be a remarkable little healthcare provider. Among the useful apps in this vein is MyFitnessPal, which stores more than 2 million types of food in its database and provides a free barcode scanner to
look up foods you've eaten -- or are about to.
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Machine Learning, TDA and the Future of Invention January 23, 2013 
Ayasdi came out of stealth mode and told the world it had a new way
to analyze big data, and I think the implications for CRM and social are very large
indeed. The new way is called "topological data analysis" and hearing about it has the feel of hearing about relativity for the first time and learning that space is curved.
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Looking Back at CES and Ahead to the Future of Tech January 21, 2013 
Part of the fun after CES is to weave the various announcements and showcases together to get a view of a future that might result from a blend of them. The goal, if you can call it that, is like imagining the cars of the 1950s and '60s, but from a 1920s perspective with then-recent developments such as compact hydraulic pumps and air conditioners in the forefront.
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The Fitness Tech Explosion January 11, 2013 
With the holidays in the rear view mirror, many who did too much indulging have begun to notice a bulge that they may want to lose in the new year. It is easy to make and subsequently break new year's resolutions -- but the convergence of technology and fitness could help make it easier to keep them.
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'Black Beauty' Meteorite Points to Mars' Kinder, Gentler Past January 05, 2013 
After a year of study, researchers have concluded that a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara desert in 2011 is a new class of meteorite -- one that adds credence to the idea that life may have existed on the Red Planet. The meteorite, Northwest Africa 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty," is black and about the size of a baseball.
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Alzheimer's Could Be the Trade-off for Deep-Space Pioneers January 03, 2013 
Cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease among astronauts, adding to the health risks it's already known to pose. Researchers at the University of Rochester looked at the effect of high-mass particles with a high charge. These so-called "HZE particles" are the nuclei of elements that include iron, silicon, titanium and calcium.
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Boeing Uses Sacks of Spuds for In-Flight WiFi Tests December 20, 2012 
Using potatoes as an analog for humans, Boeing has come up with a new way to test for in-flight wireless signal strength. Signal strength is everything when it comes to effective wireless connectivity, whether it's on the ground or 35,000 feet up in the air. Passengers on board a wireless-enabled plane want to access the network whether they're in first class or the middle seat in the back of the plane.
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Healthcare Data Has to Be Both Secure and Right December 17, 2012 
Lake Health, a regional healthcare system in northeast Ohio, has been examining its information-security practices with a maturing approach. It is shifting from deploying security technologies to becoming more of a comprehensive risk-reduction practice provider internally for its own consumers. This has caused Lake Health to look at the quality of its data.
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Test Could Reveal Which Side of the Looking Glass We're On December 15, 2012 
Science fiction buffs have long pondered whether life, the universe and everything is actually just a computer simulation. The center of this theory is that any civilization that evolves to a "post-human" stage would in turn be capable of running a simulation on the scale of the universe.
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Study: Smartphone Dieters Shed More Pounds December 11, 2012 
People anticipating weight gain over the holiday season can look toward mobile technology to help them shed those extra pounds. Patients in weight loss treatment programs lost more weight when they coupled nutritional coaching and exercise with prompts from mobile apps, reported Northwestern University researchers.
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2030: A Manned Mars Odyssey December 07, 2012 
Buoyed by the recent success of its Mars rover Curiosity, NASA announced plans to launch a new robotic science rover in 2020. It's also eyeing the possibility of a manned expedition just a decade later. "The Obama administration is committed to a robust Mars exploration program," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said.
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