Cloud computing involves displacing data storage and processing from the user’s computer on to remote servers. It can provide users with more storage space and computing power that they can…
A study by 150 researchers in 12 countries finds real strength and agreement across RNA genomic sequencing techniques and laboratories—as well as ways to improve what little variability exists to…
Several years ago, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers created a technology-enhanced glove that can teach beginners how to play piano melodies in 45 minutes. Now they’ve advanced the same wearable…
Smartphones may be smarter than you think. Our cellphones actually reflect the personal microbial world of their owners, with potential implications for their use as bacterial and environmental sensors, according…
Facelock, a newly-proposed password alternative, based on the psychology of face recognition, could put an end to forgotten passwords, suggests a report published in the open-access journal PeerJ on 23 June. Facelock…
While DNA profiling is typically used to identify one’s biological parents and in criminal investigations, a University of Central Florida (UCF) research team has developed a facial recognition tool that…
Referees may soon have a new way of determining whether a football team has scored a touchdown or gotten a first down with researchers from North Carolina State University and…
Researchers in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are developing a protocol they call “HTTP with Accountability,” or HTTPA, which will automatically…
On 12 June, during the opening of the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a paralyzed person wearing a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton is expected to make the first kick of…
Based on the mechanisms adopted by birds, bats, insects and snakes, 14 research teams have developed solutions to some of the common problems that flying robots, or drones, could face…