What we can learn about cities from social network chatter Data from social networks can reveal some very interesting things. One technologist, Dave Troy, has started to draw upon that large... Read more
Democratic movements can flourish online, but just as easily get censored. A group of researchers is developing solutions to the vulnerabilities and privacy problems with using big social me... Read more
Now, with his latest start-up, Medium, he is trying to figure out how we will write in the future. As a founder of both Blogger and Twitter, Evan Williams helped change the way people write... Read more
A publishing giant goes after the authors of its journals’ papers ONCE upon a time, it was common for scientists to receive letters from researchers working in other institutions, asking for... Read more
A global internet puzzle that requires advanced computer skills to solve has reopened online. It is the third year running that the mysterious Cicada 3301 has appeared, with no clues as to w... Read more
It started over a poker game. Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff and his students were playing cards (for chips) last summer, chatting about Facebook. They wondered: If there were time travelers... Read more
Scientists have tagged about 320 sharks including great whites with acoustic transmitters whose signals are picked up by satellite-connected buoys close to the beach. A new shark monitoring... Read more
The Alert4All solution is a new public warning system Since 2011, eleven research teams from six European countries have been looking into the fastest and most effective ways of warning the... Read more
Clicking a ‘Like’ button on Facebook can make people less likely to donate to a cause in the future, says research from UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Would-be donors skip giving when offe... Read more
Maybe digital technology is a neutral medium, conveying all our thoughts and feelings equally well. Or maybe, as tech hype tells us, our apps and gadgets skew positive, liberating us to do g... Read more
Funding agencies allocate funds for scientific research mainly based on peer-review of research proposals. In 2010, more than 15,000 researchers peer-reviewed more than 55,000 proposals. I... Read more
If anything, this latest announcement is proof that nothing is too far-fetched to come into existence. Elon Musk recently tweeted that he’d “figured out how to design rocket parts just w[ith... Read more
Making sense of the ever-increasing mounds of data is one of the great challenges facing researchers today. At Missouri University of Science and Technology, staff and students in the inform... Read more
As medical treatment is impacted by technology, consumerization, and the mobile revolution, we may see a world where your doctor already knows why you’re sick and can treat you over the phon... Read more
The Toyota Prius is one of the most high-tech cars on the consumer market. So many of its processes are linked up to the car’s onboard computer that you almost don’t even have to... Read more
