Tag: SCIENTISTS

The TSA seems to think that aggressive pat-downs and full-body scans are the only way to protect America from terrorists, but a guy named Willard "Bill" Wattenburg thinks he found an alternative -- four years ago. Wattenburg says he first heard of the TSA's plans to buy new "backscatter" full-body scanners in 2006, while working as a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Library in ...

Twitter's 140-character format may limit how much users can reveal about themselves, but, according to a group of computer scientists from Northeastern University, our casual tweets may contain enough information to reveal how we're truly feeling. Between 2006 and 2009, a team of researchers, led by Dr. Alan Mislove, analyzed all public posts to Twitter, looking for key, mood-indicating words. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Remember when Science decided, willy-nilly, that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore? People went bat-guano crazy! According to Wikipedia, "The U.S. state of New Mexico's ...

Researchers at the University of Essex in Colchester, England have come up with an original and awesome way to study pollution in the Thames River: pollution-detecting schools of robotic fish. No joke. The £2.5 million (about $1.8 million US dollars) project backed by the European Union is an example of what brilliant people can do if given the right financial backing. The robo-fish will ...