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Space Update
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Tortoise banquet: Remains of the oldest feast found A cave in Israel has given up the secrets of humans' earliest feasts, showing that they were occurring 2500 years earlier than previously thought NewScientist.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT 'Plymouth Rock' Deep Space Asteroid Mission Idea Gains Ground Plans for sending humans to visit an asteroid are heating up, with one company already studying how to rework Orion spaceships into deep space cruisers. SPACE.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:55 EST Photos Show Strange Elongated Martian Crater Photos just released by the European Space Agency give an up-close look at the strange, elongated Mars crater known as Orcus Patera. SPACE.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:55 EST New Cosmic Photo Reveals Eye-Catching Rosette Nebula A NASA telescope has snapped a stunning photo of a huge, flower-shaped cloud of dust and gas about 5,000 light-years from Earth. SPACE.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:55 EST Climate panel must 'fundamentally reform' to survive The IPCC must change how it operates if it is to regain the public's trust, according to a major review NewScientist.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:50:00 GMT |
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Nanotech Update
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NASA funds development of nanoscale materials for high energy density lithium-ion batteries (University of California - San Diego) NanoEngineers at the university of California, San Diego are designing new types of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that could be used in a variety of NASA space exploration projects -- and in a wide range of transport... Eurekalert.org Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT Tuning transitions in quantum dots New technique could expand the potential applications of semiconducting quantum dots Nanotechweb.org Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:55:36 GMT IU chemists develop new 'light switch' chloride binder (Indiana University) Chemists at Indiana university Bloomington have designed a molecule that binds chloride ions -- but can be conveniently compelled to release the ions in the presence of ultraviolet light. Reporting in the Journal of the American Chemic... Eurekalert.org Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT Semiconductor nanocrystals make ideal optical thermometers Washington team has made a new kind of highly sensitive thermal imager Nanotechweb.org Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:35:17 GMT IU physics facility awarded $5 million for cooperative neutron research (Indiana University) The next generation of neutron research at Indiana university Bloomington has received a $5 million boost from the national institute for Standards and Technology. Eurekalert.org Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
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AI/Transhumanism Update
Free Will is not an Illusion after all
NewScientist (2009-09-23) -- New Zealand researchers have developed an experiment that delves deeper than ever before into the issue of determining whether or not we have free will. The results seem to overturn the conclusions of Libet's landmark experiment in the 1980s and imply that we do indeed have free will.
newscientist.com
The Future of Human Evolution
Bedeutung (2009-09-01) -- Oxford philosopher and transhumanism expert Nick Bostrom speculates on the future of human evolution and the failure of the Panglossian view.
bedeutung.co.uk
Man-made Organisms will be here in Four Months
Daily Mail (2009-08-22) -- Famous biologist Craig Ventner boldly predicts that his team will be able to create a synthetic organism within 4 months time.
dailymail.co.uk
Evidence fir Programmed Reality from Deep Space
NewScientist (2009-08-12) -- Differences in time between photons of various energies travelling great distances may hint at the quantized nature of space.
newscientist.com
Organelle Simulated on Microchip for First Time
Scientific American (2009-07-31) -- Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed the first working artificial prototype of an "organ" of a human cell—the Golgi apparatus."
scientificamerican.com
Artificial Brain within 10 Years?
CNET News (2009-07-24) -- Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, announces his goal to build "a functioning, artificial human brain within the next 10 years."
cnet.com
Japanese Scientists to Create Robotic Insects
PHYSORG (2009-07-14) -- Professors at Tokyo University's Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology aim to create robotic insects.
physorg.com
Computer Recognition of Human Emotions
New Scientist (2009-07-03) -- Computers with Innerscope Research's emotion sensing technology can recognize human emotions like disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and surprise 9 times out of 10.
newscientist.com
Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life.
New York Times (2009-05-13) -- UK chemists create the recipe for life.
nytimes.com
Kepler search for habitable planets begins.
NASA (2009-04-30) -- The Kepler search for habitable planets began officially at 5:01 PM PDT on May 12, 2009.
nasa.com
Could the Internet become self-aware?
New Scientist (2009-04-30) -- AI expert Francis Heylighen thinks that the Internet could become self-aware within 10 years.
newscientist.com
Medical 'microbot' to swim human arteries.
The Journal (2009-04-15) -- More than 40 years later, some of the futuristic potential of "Fantastic Voyage" has taken a step closer to realisation, thanks to a remarkable achievement in miniaturization unveiled last week.
indexcontact.com
Robot scientist makes discoveries without human help.
New Scientist (2009-04-02) -- A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries.
newscientist.com
Honda connects brain thoughts with robotics.
Comcast.net (2009-03-31) -- Honda Motor Co. has developed a way to read patterns of electric currents on a person's scalp as well as changes in cerebral blood flow when a person thinks about four simple movements.
comcast.net
Can the Human Lifespan Reach 1,000 Years?
The Daily Galaxy (2009-03-27) -- Various scientists believe that if immortality isn't around the corner, living to 1000 may be possible by some who are alive today.
dailygalaxy.com
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
PhysOrg.com (2009-03-20) -- Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order.
physorg.com
It's Easier to Observe the Failure of Local Realism than Previously Thought.
PhysOrg.com (2009-03-04) -- A team of scientists have now shown that the failure of local realism can be observed at a macroscopic level. More evidence for a grainy, or programmed reality.
physorg.com
Bionic Eye Restores Sight in Blind Man .
BBC (2009-03-04) --
A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light 7 months after being fitted with a bionic eye in London's Moorfield eye hospital.
bbc.co.uk
Adding Touch, Taste, and Smell to Virtual Reality.
Wired (2009-03-04) -- Virtual reality schemes have long tantalized geeks with unrealized visions of holodecks and long-distance cybersex. Now, a group of British researchers want to round out the experience with virtual touch, taste and smell. To simulate the real world, they argue, all five of your senses must be stimulated. Toward that end, they've mocked up a "Virtual Cocoon" with a separate glove that — at least in theory — could tickle your tongue as it, uh, nukes your nose.
wired.com
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