Category: Analysis
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Big data analysis. Infinity. One.
Hoping to tame the torrent of data churning out of biology labs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced $32 million in awards in 2014 to help researchers develop ways to analyze and use large biological data sets. The awards come out of NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, announced last year after…
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Diseases. Symptoms. Analysis. Over-analysis...
Ten finalists have been chosen in a $10m (£6m) competition to develop a real-life "tricorder" - the medical scanner used in the Star Trek series. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, launched last year, challenges anyone to develop a wireless device capable of detecting a range of diseases. The technology employs sensors and imaging to measure…
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Illusions, dimensions, beliefs...
A unique experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending questions about our universe - including whether we live in a hologram. Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D world exists only on…
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Analyzing more. Explaining less. Another plague of modern science...
Ecologists are testing more and more hypotheses, but their studies are explaining less of the world. That’s the striking conclusion of a new study that analyzes 8 decades of research papers. What exactly is driving these trends isn’t clear, but researchers fear it could undermine confidence in ecological research. Since it gained momentum as a…
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Extra sensory perceptions… One consciousness...
Ask Harvard Medical School researchers how many senses humans have and you’re bound to receive a range of answers. This lack of consensus isn’t limited to Harvard: Neurologists and others who study perception have long disagreed on the number of senses we possess to help us navigate our way through life. Researchers argue that true…
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