Science & Technology

Photo courtesy EFF.
The Internet and Proposition 35

The constitutionality of a proposition to require registered sex offenders to disclose internet activities and identitie...

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Gene variant helps determine circadian rhythms

A new article in the scientific journal Annals of Neurology has identified a gene that controls a number of what are cal...

Photo courtesy ESA.
$12.8 billion granted to European Space Agency

In a budgetary compromise last Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) was granted 10-10.1 billion euros, the equival...

Chemotherapy involves a plethora of different drugs.  Wikimedia
Breakthrough chemotherapy treatment performed in UK

Although it claims hundreds of thousands of lives per year in the United States alone, cancer is, in many cases, a treat...

One of ORCA's functions was supposed to call citizens reminding them to vote on election day.  Wikimedia
ORCA vs. Narwhal offers lessons in campaign technology

This campaign season we saw the rise of memes and GIFs as political communicators. While it is unclear that they had any...

sandy2
Hurricane Sandy stirs up climate change debate

Hurricane Sandy has caused an estimated $50 billion in damages throughout the East Coast, stopped electrical service to ...

Photo courtesy Microsoft.
Microsoft Surface has potential, still rough around the edges

Microsoft is a software company that minted its considerable fortune producing products that ran on others’ hardware. ...

Quantum computers would surpass the capabilities of our current silicone models. File photo
Scientists win Nobel Prize for quantum leap in computing

Scientists Serge Haroche and David Wineland have won the Nobel Prize in physics for this year based on “ground-breakin...

File photo.
Space X: The next generation of flight

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are...

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Observatory Corner: King of the Planets

A poll was recently conducted of all on-campus Sci-Tech writers whose last names end with “ooten”, and in a statisti...