Jay Loeffler and Edward Halperin ponder the growing trend of naming medical schools after funding donors. (JAMA)
“We were pedalling pretty hard.”
The University of Maine’s Department of Computer Science powered one of its super-computers by rigging it up to ten cyclists. (The Maine Campus)
“The number of occasions they have been used and the circumstances I can not go into in this forum.”
Brig Chapman, director of counter-terrorism at the UK’s ministry of defence, says scientists from the nuclear and biological warfare labs at Porton Down have been deployed in the UK. He could tell you why; but then he’d have to kill you… (BBC)
“Small robots that are able to work together could explore the planet.”
Robotics researcher Marc Szymanski is part of Europe’s I-Swarm project to create miniature autonomous robots that can co-operate with each other. (PhysOrg)