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Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
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IEEE releases new standard for body area network
After five years of work, the IEEE announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6, for wireless communications supporting ultra-low power devices operating in or around the human body.
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Those silly algorithms: Book about flies goes for $23.7 million on Amazon
What happens when two algorithms get into a deathmatch over book pricing? You get a book about fly developmental biology that will run you more than $23 million plus shipping of course.
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13% of US biology teachers advocate creationism: Welcome to 2011
What happened to curricular standards? And why the heck are Creationists biology teachers?
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Art, biology, tech converge at The Lab (photos)
San Francisco art gallery, called The Lab, explores interactive art with a special emphasis on biotechnology.
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"The Singularity" and the Silicon Valley elite - futuristic beliefs on tech and salvation
"The Singularity" is collection of futuristic ideas on mortality and how our human experience will soon change dramatically...
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Bill Gates at Berkeley (photos)
Bill Gates made the first stop on his college tour on Monday, speaking at the University of California Berkeley, before touring one of its biology departments.
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Will open source biology get anywhere?
The first such "open source biology" company, Sage Bionetworks, was founded just this year and is only now beginning to solicit its first donations beyond seed money.
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Flying robots based on birds and insects
A team of engineers at the University of Maryland specializing in flight and navigation, is turning to biology for inspiration to protect troops as the military's role in international dealings...
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Drink beer to avoid cancer...
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) synthetic biology competition will be held on November 8-9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 85 teams will be part of this contest, using 'a...
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Creation in science classes? Maybe...
Professor Michael Reiss, Director of Education for the Royal Society, seriously irritated most of his fellow Royal Society members and a good chunk of the scientific community by posting a blog...
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Virtual reality frog dissection software
Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous...
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Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA
I've been following the technology industry for years now, and there's always been talk about a "revolution" or "evolution" underway. I've come to the conclusion that "revolution" has been too...
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SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms
A computer is a tool and a program is a thing, said Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT during the SC07 keynote on Tuesday. The audience was a little skeptical. "If...
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This is your doing, isn't it, Dad?
My oldest son hopped in the car today after school and said, "Guess what we're doing in Biology? We're blogging. I'm not complaining, but this sure sounds like your doing, Dad." Not...
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J. Craig Venter: The emerging biosynthetic world
I am attending the Web 2.0 Summit. It's the final day of the conference and human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is being interviewed by Tim O'Reilly. Listening to Venter, you get the feeling that...
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Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria
Synthetic biology is an emerging field which involves the engineering of biological organisms. One of the first applications has been developed by a team of researchers from the MIT and Boston...
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Misusing open source in a good cause
But mass familiarity is not open source. The idea of mass hacking of life forms, as akin to the exchange of code within open source projects, is a non-starter.
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A call to make morality part of science education
Philadelphia conference emphasizes the need to instruct students in questions of ethics and morality - starting in high school, not college.
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IEEE releases new standard for body area network
After five years of work, the IEEE announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6, for wireless communications supporting ultra-low power devices operating in or around the human body.
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In Jobs own words on 60 Minutes: Meeting his biological father (video)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs describes meeting his biological father on 60 Minutes.
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