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Scientist captures images of life?s essence
2008-01-08 17:48:00 M.D. Anderson biochemist’s work alters our view of cell division ? and possibly disease By ERIC BERGER Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle For the first time, scientists have captured detailed images of life’s essence. The dazzling pictures reveal a key step in the process of cell division, which all organisms must undergo to survive. The moment occurs deep within ... More About: Life , Scientist , Images , Ages
Making 3D models from video clips
2008-01-08 17:46:00 This is awesome it’s just like how you can use Google Sketch-up to model 3D buildings from 2D photos. This is VERY powerful technology that I can imagine will one day be used to digitally model vast areas of the Earth. That’s because soon enough the software won’t need a human to help it trace ... More About: Video , Models , Video Clips , Clips
Our universe as virtual reality
2008-01-08 17:36:00 From Boing Boing: Posted by David Pescovitz, January 7, 2008 1:54 PM | permalink The notion that our reality is a simulation or “control system” of some kind has always intrigued me. Long before The Matrix, folks like Jacques Vallee, John Keel, Rudy Rucker, and Hans Moravec played with this idea in very smart ways. And recently, ... More About: Reality , Universe , Virtual Reality , Virtual , Univers
Moore?s Law
2008-01-08 17:31:00 Moore’s Law Made real by Intel® innovation “…(T)he first microprocessor only had 22 hundred transistors. We are looking at something a million times that complex in the next generations-a billion transistors. What that gives us in the way of flexibility to design products is phenomenal.” ?Gordon E. Moore In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore saw the future. His ... More About: Moore
Future directions in computing
2008-01-08 17:28:00 Silicon electronics are a staple of the computing industry, but researchers are now exploring other techniques to deliver powerful computers. A quantum computer is a theoretical device that would make use of the properties of quantum mechanics, the realm of physics that deals with energy and matter at atomic scales. In a quantum computer data is not ... More About: Future , Directions , Computing , Rect
Intel predicts the personal net
2008-01-08 17:26:00 Mobile devices will deliver a more personal internet within five years, using chips with the power of today’s desktop PCs, Intel ’s head has said. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show, Paul Otellini predicted mobile devices could soon “augment reality” by pulling data from the net in real time. He said the industry was on the verge of ... More About: Personal
How Blogs Are Changing the Recruiting Landscape
2008-01-08 17:25:00 January 07, 2008 (CareerJournal) Corporate recruiters have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they’re also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can’t get from resumes and interviews. Most blog-related recruits are professionals in technology and media because jobs in these fields often ... More About: Landscape , Recruiting , Blogs , Changing
Tech law issues to watch in 2008
2008-01-08 17:22:00 Jan 07, 2008 04:30 AM Michael Geist Predicting the future of Canadian technology law is challenging at the best of times, but with upcoming national elections in the United States and possibly Canada, prognostications for the next 12 months are admittedly likely to be about as accurate as a coin flip. With that caveat in mind, ... More About: Watch , Tech , Issues , Issue
U.S. last in preventable death rate
2008-01-08 17:17:00 What does this say about the Bush Regime’s priorities: BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 8 (UPI) — The United States ranks last among 19 industrialized nations when it comes to deaths that could have been prevented. The report by The Commonwealth Fund, published in the journal Health Affairs, said 101,000 deaths per year could have been prevented by access ... More About: Death , Preventable , Rate
Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study
2008-01-08 17:16:00 Wow, just think about this: ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2008) ? A new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry?s claim. The researchers? estimate is based on the systematic collection of data directly from the industry ... More About: Research , Advertising , Study , Development , Pharma
Quantum leap in technology to unravel ?cosmic web? of universe
2008-01-04 21:12:00 CHICAGO (AFP) - Scientists believe that a quantum leap in computing power and the development of powerful new telescopes will soon unravel the “cosmic web,” a theory by which the universe is bound by invisible threads of “dark matter.” In a series of articles in Friday’s edition of Science magazine, leading astrophysicists explain how new technologies ... More About: Technology , Universe , Quantum Leap , Quantum , Cosmic
Feds Offer Vouchers to Cover TV Conversion Cost
2008-01-04 21:07:00 January 3, 2008 There’s only one year left before over-the-air television signals switch from analog to digital, and many watchers who rely on “rabbit ears” or roof-top antennas will wake up to blank screens without the right equipment. To that end, the government is offering $40 coupons for anyone who needs to purchase a converter box ... More About: Cost , Cover , Conversion , Vouchers , Offer
Researchers are beginning to crack the code that gives humans our way with
2008-01-04 20:52:00 Daniel Geschwind reaches up to his office bookshelf, takes down a three-dimensional puzzle of the human brain, and begins trying to snap the plastic pieces together. A neurogeneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Geschwind hopes the puzzle will help him describe the parts of the brain that control speech and language. But for ... More About: Code , Crack , Humans
Evolution education is a ?must? says coalition of scientific and teaching o
2008-01-04 20:49:00 A coalition of 17 organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association, is calling on the scientific community to become more involved in the promotion of science education, including evolution. more>>> More About: Education , Evolution , Teaching , Coalition
NASA Dreams of an Interplanetary ?Second Life? for Mars Crew
2008-01-04 20:48:00 When NASA begins launching astronaut teams on 800-day missions to Mars , one of the greatest survival tests these explorers will face is the inevitable alienation they’ll experience with their remoteness from Earth and the harshness of the frozen Red Planet. After rocketing halfway around the solar system for 180 nights, these astronauts will start the first ... More About: Life , Dreams , Second Life , Nasa
Ten things that will change your future
2008-01-01 18:20:00 So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise? Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade. Think back to the days before the network we call the internet existed. Think back to a world before “google” became a verb, before a user-generated encyclopedia called Wikipedia ... More About: Future , Change , Things
A fully implantable hearing aid is showing promise.
2008-01-01 18:09:00 A hearing aid is a straightforward device. Its microphone collects sound, its electronics amplify it, its tiny loudspeaker sends the sound into a tube placed in the ear canal, and the power comes from a disposable battery. There’s just one problem: people hate hearing aids. They get lost. They’re hard to wear while sleeping. They ... More About: Promise , Hearing
Holographic Memory
2008-01-01 17:48:00 InPhase Technologies hopes to bring its novel 3-D storage product to market by next year–and revolutionize how you store your data. Although the offices of IBM and Hewlett-Packard are nearby, Longmont, CO, is decidedly not Silicon Valley chic. But in this Denver suburb, a radical experiment in data storage is under way. At the headquarters of ... More About: Memory , Holo
Nanotube Forest
2008-01-01 17:44:00 Nanotube height, diameter and spacing affect a ?densification? process developed by James Jian-Qiang Lü of Rensselaer Polytechnic University and his colleagues to compact carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These tightly packed bundles are efficient conductors that the reserarchers believe could one day replace copper as the primary interconnects used on computer chips and even hasten the ... More About: Forest
Singularity: Christian Answers Needed!
2007-12-30 21:55:00 EVERYONE HAS A VOICE. More About: Videos , Christian , Answers
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007
2007-12-28 00:01:00 Welcome to the first annual Wired News rundown of the year’s 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. 2007 was an amazing year for science. Unlike recent years, there were no high-profile cases of scientific fraud — none that went uncovered, anyway. Journal publishers took extra care, requiring scientists to duplicate results in an effort to avoid ...
The past 12 months have featured touch screens, context-aware gadgets, auto
2007-12-27 23:59:00 Touch Screens At Apple’s annual Macworld event last January, showman and CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. Holding it onstage, Jobs tapped on its surface to type, flicked his finger to scroll through songs, and pinched his fingers to make pictures smaller. The crowd went wild. But while the iPhone is the world’s most prominent ... More About: Gadgets , Auto , Past , Touch , Featured
Robots Taking Over The Job On Offshore Oil Drilling Platforms
2007-12-27 23:56:00 ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2007) ? In the future, offshore platforms could be run by robots alone, with human beings staying on land. ?Well, now you have seen the individual sensors and special tools. Shall I put the robots into action?? SINTEF scientist Pål Liljebäck is standing in the new NOK 80 million laboratory financed by Norsk Hydro. ... More About: Robots , Offshore , Drilling , Taking , Platforms
Invention Turns Toxic Waste into Electricity
2007-12-27 23:18:00 New technology could clean toxic messes from mines and create electricity at the same time. Contaminated water seeping from coal and metal mines is a serious environmental hazard that endangers the safety of drinking water supplies and the health of plants and animals. This caustic pollution?loaded with metals such as arsenic, lead, copper, iron and cadmium?is ... More About: Electricity , Invention , Waste , Toxic
The Top 10 New Organisms of 2007
2007-12-27 23:15:00 By Alexis Madrigal 12.26.07 Genetic engineering isn’t just for scientists in ivory towers or corporate R&D labs anymore. Researchers are still creating new mice and crops every week, but the tools and knowledge necessary to create organisms never before seen on Earth have pushed out to pet breeders, artists and college kids. A Wired News first, ... More About: Organ
New Milestone Reached for BTS!
2007-12-23 15:45:00 Blogging the Singularity has reached a new milestone. In it’s nine months of existence, over 20,000 distinct visitors have made their way here. I hope everyone enjoys the news posted here. I truly want it to be a resource of wonder and excitement. I do it for anyone who wants to know what’s happening right ... More About: Milestone
GM mice don?t fear cats
2007-12-21 20:17:00 Japanese scientists have created a genetically modified mouse that is not afraid of cats. (Tom & Jerry Playing Nicely - Chris) Researchers at Tokyo University managed to turn off the receptors in a mouse’s brain that react to the scent of its main predator. They wanted to prove that fear is genetically programmed and not, as is ... More About: Cats , Mice , Fear
Brain Cells More Powerful Than You Think
2007-12-21 20:05:00 By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay Reporter posted: 19 December 2007 05:21 pm ET (HealthDay News) — The human brain constantly sorts through its 1 trillion cells, looking for perhaps only one or a handful of neurons to carry out a particular action, a trio of new studies says. The research, conducted with rodents and published in the Dec. 20 ... More About: Brain
Cognitive Enhancers in Academic Doping
2007-12-21 20:02:00 Posted on: December 19, 2007 1:00 PM, by Shelley Batts A commentary today in Nature, by Sahakian and Morein-Zamir, poses the question: if you could take a pill which enhanced attention and cognition with few or no side effects, would you? But I ask, why wouldn’t you? Interest in potions and drugs which increase awareness and “brain ... More About: Academic , Doping
Robotic arms take home top award
More articles from this author:2007-12-21 19:58:00 A robotic firefighter and a walking android have been trumped by an industrial mechanical arm to win a Japanese government-run competition. The advanced assembly-line robotic arms, made by industry specialist Fanuc, won Robot of the Year. The arms have been built for accurately sorting items on conveyor belts use in the food and drug industries. The awards, set ... More About: Robotic , Home , Award , Arms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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