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The power of a single neuron
2007-12-21 19:54:00 Stimulating one brain cell can be enough to change behaviour. Stimulating just one neuron can be enough to affect learning and behaviour, researchers have found. The results, published this week by Nature, conflict with the long-held notion that many neurons ? in the order of thousands ? are required to generate a behavioural reaction. The findings lend ... More About: Power , Single
Lab comes one step closer to building artificial human brain
2007-12-21 19:46:00 An ambitious project in Switzerland was scoffed at - but researchers have just succeeded in simulating a rat’s brain in silicon Computer model of a single neocortical column from a rat’s brain (Photo: IBM) Clint Witchalls The Guardian, Thursday December 20 2007 In a laboratory in Switzerland, a group of neuroscientists is developing a mammalian brain - in silicon. The ... More About: Building , Human , Brain , Step , Closer
Honda robots pair up to lend a hand
2007-12-18 22:06:00 David Guttenfelder/AP Honda ’s humanoid robots named Asimo work together to serve coffee during a demonstration at Honda’s laboratories in Tokyo. As if the idea of having one robot to serve a person wasn’t unusual enough, Honda says its robots are now ready to work in pairs - and they can even serve drinks. By Carl Freire updated 10:27 ... More About: Robots , Hand , Pair , Lend
Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Co
2007-12-18 08:10:00 Japanese researchers have developed a new approach to robotics that could revolutionize the future of artificial limbs. The team, from Okinawa University, has come up with an amazing “muscle” design that is driven by compressed air and is simpler than the designs of many other prosthetic arms currently in development. More info, plus a video ... More About: Life , Robotic , Japanese , Team
Scientists Clone Glow-in-the-Dark Cats
2007-12-18 07:57:00 Dec. 13, 2007 — South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday. In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams. A team of scientists led by Kong Il-keun, a cloning expert at ... More About: Cats , Clone , Dark , The Dark , Scientists
Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
2007-12-18 07:18:00 By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 17, 2007; Page A01 It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life’s most extraordinary molecule. Until recently, however, even the most sophisticated laboratories could make only small snippets of DNA — an extra gene or ... More About: Life , Forms , New Life , Synthetic , Synth
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: The Singularity
2007-12-18 06:05:00 Ray Kurzweil speaks on Singularity at the RAS Conference 2007 in San Francisco, Feb. 7, 2007. Photo credit: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images. By Eliza Strickland Email 11.13.07 | 3:00 PM Ray Kurzweil has plenty of titles already: inventor, author, futurist, techno-optimist, artificial intelligence expert. Now he’s adding a Hollywood gloss to that ... More About: Theater
Creation ?Museum? honored
2007-12-18 00:14:00 From Pharyngula: This month’s Mad magazine has a feature on the the 20 dumbest people, events, and things of 2007, and guess what won a slot on the list? Click to see a larger image. Finally there is compelling evidence that the theory of evolution is wrong! For proof positive that man’s intelligence has not evolved in eons, ... More About: Museum , Creation
BBC Visions of the Future: The Intelligence Revolution
2007-12-17 21:05:00 This is a *really* good doc on the exponential growth of technology and where it is headed. I thought that what they had to say about robots having emotions was interesting! Maybe they will have to have emotions! And they show a depression patient who had a computer implanted into her brain called a ‘brain pacemaker’ which ... More About: Intelligence , Future , The Future , Revolution , Visions
Scientists seek to help ?locked-in? man speak
2007-12-17 20:22:00 Erik Ramsey shortly before a car crash left him “locked-in,” able to think and reason but paralyzed except for his eyes By Yvonne S. Lee CNN NEW YORK (CNN) — It’s been described as the closest thing to being buried alive — complete paralysis of the body, except for controlled movement of the eyes. That’s how 24-year-old ... More About: Locked , Speak , Scientists , Seek
Novel Nanowires for Faster Memory
2007-12-17 20:18:00 Tiny phase-change wires could serve as a key element in next-generation memory. By B. Christine Hoekenga Researchers are now one step closer to realizing the full potential of next-generation memory devices based on phase-changing material. Ritesh Agarwal, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues have pioneered a new technique ... More About: Memory , Aster
Neuronal circuits able to rewire on the fly to sharpen senses
2007-12-17 20:12:00 Researchers from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, have for the first time described a mechanism called ?dynamic connectivity,? in which neuronal circuits are rewired ?on the fly? allowing stimuli to be more keenly sensed. The process is described in ... More About: Circuits
Building blocks of life formed on Mars
2007-12-13 07:21:00 Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory have shown for the first time that building blocks of life formed on Mars early in its history. Previously, ... More About: Building , Life , Blocks
YOU GOTTA READ THE COMMENTS TO THIS GIZMODO POST!
2007-12-13 07:19:00 New Material Provides Constant Light For 12 Years Without a Power Source MPK, a company that has made a name producing glow-in-the-dark paint, has developed self-luminous micro particles called Litrospheres. The new material is said to be inexpensive (35 cents to light up a 8 ½ x 11 piece of plastic that is 1/8″ thick), non-toxic, ... More About: Post , Comments , Read , Gizmodo , Gotta
Human evolution is ?speeding up?
2007-12-13 07:06:00 Humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasingly different, a genetic study suggests. In the past 5,000 years, genetic change has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period, say scientists in the US. This is in contrast with the widely-held belief that recent human evolution has halted. The research ... More About: Evolution , Human , Speeding
Camera ?aids memory loss fight?
2007-12-13 07:03:00 A wearable digital camera may hold the key to helping people who have memory problems, experts believe. Sensecam, produced by Microsoft, takes photos of daily events every 30 seconds so they can be played back later at high-speed to jog memory. Trials showed it helped people recall the event and emotions related to it. Experts believe it could ... More About: Camera , Memory , Fight , Loss , Aids
Mars robot unearths microbe clue
2007-12-13 06:59:00 Nasa says its robot rover Spirit has made one of its most significant discoveries on the surface of Mars . Scientists believe a patch of ground disturbed by the vehicle shows evidence of a past environment that would have been perfect for microbial life. The deposits were probably produced when hot spring water or steam came into contact ... More About: Robot , Robe
Researchers Can Read Thoughts To Decipher What A Person Is Actually Seeing
2007-12-13 06:56:00 ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2007) ? Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing of this type of neuron, they can tell what a person is actually seeing. more>>> More About: Thoughts , Read , Person
Physicists perform the first ever quantum calculation
2007-12-13 06:53:00 University of Queensland researchers are part of an international team to have made the first ever execution of a quantum calculation, a major step towards building the first quantum computers. more>>> More About: Quantum , Perform
Smarter Honda ASIMO Can Self-Charge, Avoid People, Work In Groups
2007-12-13 06:51:00 When scientists in some bunker in the year 2525 are trying to determine when humanity handed over the keys to the robot overlords, December 11, 2007, may be a good date, for on this day, Honda announced it had given its ASIMO servant robots three key abilities. Here we break them down, and provide a ... More About: People , Work , Charge , Groups
Singularity Meme Growing Exponentially
2007-12-13 06:49:00 All I got to say about all of the ‘Singularity’ and ‘Transhumanist’ blogs and websites out there: one person tells two two people tell four four tell sixteen who tell 65,536 who tell 4,294,967,296 well, you get the idea…:) More About: Meme , Growing
?Exodus? to virtual worlds predicted
2007-12-13 06:38:00 The appeal of online virtual worlds such as Second Life is such that it may trigger an exodus of people seeking to “disappear from reality,” an expert on large-scale online games has said. Virtual worlds have seen huge growth since they became mainstream in the early years of this decade, developing out of Massive Multiplayer Role-Playing ... More About: Worlds , Exodus
Short Film About Robots.
2007-12-07 08:06:00 AtomFilm s.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central More About: Robots , Short , Short Film
New hypothesis for origin of life proposed
2007-12-05 08:07:00 Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis. Photo of mica from an abandoned mica mine, with water between some layers, showing edges of mica sheets [e.g., black arrows] and air bubbles in the water [red arrows] and brown bands ... More About: Life , Prop , Origin
Artificial Intelligence Enters Brave New World
2007-12-04 20:55:00 If you haven’t heard the NPR podcast about the Singularity Summit and AI from Kurzweil’s tech news yet, then be sure to listen HERE More About: World , Intelligence , Artificial Intelligence , New World
5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game
2007-12-04 20:45:00 NEW YORK (AP) — Think you’re smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won. That challenges the belief of many people, including many scientists, that “humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions,” said ... More About: Kids , College , Computer , Game , Beats
Scientist: ?Hybrid? computers will meld living brains with technology
2007-12-04 09:36:00 Sounds sci-fi, but researcher says hybrids using living brains will be in autos, desktops in 10-15 years December 03, 2007 (Computerworld) — A scientist who successfully connected a moth’s brain to a robot predicts that in 10 to 15 years we’ll be using “hybrid” computers running a combination of technology and living organic tissue. Charles Higgins, ... More About: Technology , Living , Computers , Hybrid , Scientist
Your Genes Dictate You What to Eat
2007-12-04 09:35:00 You may think that what you eat is your own choice. But a new research made at Kings College London proves that this choice depends on your genes. This was found after comparing the eating habits of thousands of pairs of twins. Identical twins presented a significantly higher share of food preference patterns, like a ... More About: Genes
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America
2007-12-04 09:34:00 Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country–those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers. They come in many forms: associations, think tanks, money-raising organizations, PACs, and even other tech-oriented industries like telecommunications. The tech issues that they’re ... More About: America , Tech , Organizations , Anti , Organ
Evolving Thoughts
More articles from this author:2007-11-26 01:13:00 Evolving Thoughts is a cool blog from an intelligent fellow. And click HERE for a full list of the BASIC CONCEPTS IN SCIENCE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
