Under new stewardship, the venerable technology conference switches focus from high-profile networking to a powerhouse of philanthropy. By Kim Zetter.
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By some quirk, the U.S. culture of individualism is unfriendly to people who are alone in public; while Japan’s group society happily accommodates singles. Commentary by Momus. This column is available as a .
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A new facial recognition technology could make club-going safer. But privacy groups worry that innocent patrons could get permanently 86′d. By Rachel Metz.
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The new M1 battery beefs up the lithium-ion technology in cell phones and laptops to a duration and power density that can handle power tools, lawn mowers and hybrid cars. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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Build templates for your website with Master Pages. Adam DuVander shows us the easy way to make massive site changes in ASP.NET 2.0. In Webmonkey.
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A bot in a denim skirt could keep your lawn free of ticks and help prevent Lyme disease. By Prachi Patel-Predd.
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The MRSA ’superbug’ evades many of the measures introduced to combat its spread by infecting a common single-celled organism found almost everywhere in hospital wards, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Microbiology.
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An international research team has provided the first conclusive evidence that neurodevelopmental disorders such as mental retardation and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and ataxias can be caused, at least in part, by specific gene defects that interfere with the electrical impulses of rapid-firing brain nerve cells called bursting neurons.
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Researchers from Berkeley Lab’s National Center for Electron Microscopy and the University of Kiel have found a completely new way to form complex networks of nanotubes. Extensive hexagonal networks of tubes, intricately branched and connected and having the cross section of a pitched roof, form spontaneously on the surface of certain layered crystals. Applications may include networks of pipes for transporting minute quantities of materials or templates for the fabrication of nanowire networks.
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A new study shows that patients whose colorectal cancer has spread to the liver who received an approach called hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) — the administration of chemotherapy directly to the liver through a pump in the abdomen — fare better than those who received traditional, intravenous chemotherapy. Researchers found that the patients on the HAI therapy lived longer and had better quality of life than those receiving systemic therapy. The study will be published online February 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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