Software as Service: The Next Generation - part 1
Sometime last year, it became clear that ClearChoice had a problem. The company’s chain of dental-implant centers was at 29 and counting, testing the elasticity of its disparate IT systems. Each location had its own database fed by site-specific...
When Scientists Fail, It's Time To Call In The Gamers
Proteins are incredibly complex, yet tiny — so tiny that conventional imaging techniques often...
Flying Telescope Makes An Out-Of-This-World Find
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, known as SOFIA, is a modified Boeing 747 airplane...
iPhone Microscope Diagnoses Disease
Pollen (left) and plant stems (middle, right) are shown from an expensive microscope (top) and with an inexpensive...
Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing
Oran Weitzberg has a form of high-functioning autism, called Asperger's syndrome, which enables him to happily spend...
Providing Reliable Wireless Communications for First Responders
The Rocket mobile communications appliance.
Space Observatory Provides Clues to Creation of Earth's Oceans
New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered water with the same chemical signature as our...
Fossils Help Rev Hard-Hit Newfoundland Fishing Area
Guy Narbonne, a paleontologist at Queen's University in Ontario, inspects a fossil at the Mistaken Point Ecological...
