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2007-11-25 21:39:00 otherwise, your news will be like this video. Politics is NOT about people, it’s about IDEAS. Notice how the anchor turns it into some kind of contest by asking him the same question five times after he answers her. I like how the news anchor is taken back after the congressman gives her a ... More About: Stay
Can We Survive?
2007-11-25 21:31:00 ?It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.? Charles Darwin “MOST ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE” More About: Survive
Nanotechnology Will Turn Science Fiction Into Reality.
2007-11-25 20:35:00 Nanotechnology has long left the laboratory and its discoveries and products are all around us — from longer lasting tennis balls, waterproof pants and drug delivery patches to quicker and more powerful computers, and faster burning rocket fuels. Last year alone, nano-business garnered $32 billion in sales of household products in the U.S. Using nanotechnology, ... More About: Science , Reality , Fiction , Nanotechnology , Science Fiction
Meet the Two-Faced Cat With Nine Lives
2007-11-25 20:30:00 Do you notice anything strange about the cat in the photo? At first, I didn’t believe this .. er, cat .. was alive, instead of being the product of a zit-faced basement-dwelling photoshop prankster with too much time on his hairy-palmed hands. But after poking around on the internet for a few hours, it appears ... More About: Meet , Lives
Robot claims ?world first? convertible legs
2007-11-25 20:27:00 The company’s new humanoid robot is called EMIEW 2, which stands for ‘Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate’. (AFP Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno) Posted Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:22am AEDT Japanese engineering giant Hitachi Ltd has unveiled a new lightweight robot that can converse while easily scooting around people. The company says that, in a first for a ... More About: Robot , World , Legs , Claims , Convertible
Waking brain boots up like a computer
2007-11-25 20:26:00 Nitric oxide helps to process and organize flood of sensory information By Abigail W. Leonard Special to LiveScience updated 2:16 p.m. CT, Fri., Aug. 18, 2006 As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere. Like ... More About: Computer , Boots , Brain
The View From 2500 A.D.
2007-11-25 20:22:00 Arthur C. Clarke 11.12.07, 6:00 AM ET Arthur C. Clarke Looking back on the appalling 21st century from our vantage point, 500 years later, it sometimes seems incredible that the human race could have survived such a time of troubles. The moment of greatest danger can now be pinpointed precisely–the year 2010. Fifty years earlier, the chief threat ... More About: The View , View
3-D photonic crystals will revolutionize telecommunications
2007-11-21 03:36:00 Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of telecommunications ? with the aid of three-dimensional photonic crystals. In a three-year project, BASF is researching into the development of these crystals together with partners such as Hanover Laser Center, Thales Aerospace Division, Photon Design Ltd., the Technical University of ... More About: Telecommunications
Using a Planetary Analog To Test a Prototype Inflated Habitat for NASA
2007-11-21 03:19:00 I had a chance to visit the manufacturing facilities at ILC Dover in Frederica, Delaware last week to see the new inflatable habitat that they have developed. Together, NASA, ILC Dover, and NSF will put this habitat through a one-year test at McMurdo Station in Antarctica starting in January 2008. How this team came to chose ... More About: Prototype , Test , Nasa , Analog , Abit
Scientists told to cut the gobbledygook
2007-11-21 03:17:00 OTTAWA — Tired of printing scientific gobbledygook that almost no one can read, one of the world’s top science journals has ordered its authors to write plain English. If the researchers who write for the journal Science can’t manage to do this, an editor will rewrite their work as savagely as necessary, at least for the ... More About: Scientists , Told , Bled , The Go , The G
?This is a very exciting advance?
2007-11-21 03:12:00 Fibroblast skin cells were transformed by the new technology Scientists have discovered a way to reprogramme human skin cells so that they mimic embryonic stems with the potential to become any tissue in the body. The breakthrough promises to have significant implications for medical research. Scientists are very excited by the announcement of these findings, that cells ... More About: Vance
Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones
2007-11-21 03:03:00 Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that’s far from the limit of the Internet giant’s wireless ambitions — which could include running its own mobile network. The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can ... More About: Google , Mobile , Mobile Phones , Phones , Plans
Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth?s Brain
2007-11-21 03:00:00 In a notion taken from science fiction afficionados, University of Arizona researchers presented a robot that moves by using the brain impulses of a moth at the 37th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. Charles M. Higgins, UA associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Timothy Melano presented their findings ... More About: Robot , Brain , Create
The brain processes memories six to seven times faster than real time.
2007-11-21 02:45:00 ‘Speed of Thought’ Guides Brain Memory Consolidation UA researchers find that the brain processes memories six to seven times faster than real time. By Jeff Harrison, University Communications November 15, 2007 Scientists at The University of Arizona have added another piece of the puzzle of how the brain processes memory. Bruce McNaughton, a professor of psychology and physiology, and ... More About: Time , Memories , Real , Times
Amazon debuts digital book reader
2007-11-21 02:38:00 Online retailer Amazon has unveiled an own-brand wireless electronic book reader called Kindle. The paperback-sized device is on sale immediately in the US for $399 (£195). It can store up to 200 books in its onboard memory. Kindle does not need a PC to be loaded with books, blogs or papers - instead content arrives via wireless. Amazon ... More About: Reader , Book , Digital
Virtual Eve: first in human computer interaction
2007-11-21 02:37:00 The near-human performance of a virtual teacher called Eve created by Massey researchers has drawn the attention of scientists across the computing world. Eve is what is known in the information sciences as an intelligent or affective tutoring system that can adapt its response to the emotional state of people by interaction through a computer ... More About: Computer , Human , Virtual , Interaction , Interact
Special Report: The Brain
2007-11-16 17:48:00 From New Scientist: The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. This jelly-like mass of tissue, weighing in at around 1.4 kilograms, contains a staggering one hundred billion nerve cells, or neurons. The complexity of the connectivity between these cells is ... More About: Report , Special , Brain , Special Report , The Brain
Beowolf Leads the Pack
2007-11-16 16:35:00 There are only twelve notes in western music, and only 36 dramatic situations total. There are millions of songs and films and books and all they can do is rehash, reshape, and reuse. Stylistic gimmicks like the motion capture animation in Beowolf don’t change the fact that they are just retelling a 1,000 year old ... More About: Leads , Pack , The Pack
Doomsday vault begins deep freeze
2007-11-16 15:09:00 It would have to be Europe to come up with this idea. Us in the US believe we’ll never die! The seed vaults are at the end of a 120-metre long tunnel From BBC News: Engineers have begun the two-month process of cooling down a “doomsday vault”, which will house seeds from all known varieties of key food ... More About: Vault , Deep , Freeze , Deep Freeze , Doomsday
Russia and India to Fly Lunar Mission
2007-11-16 15:05:00 Does the moon belong to anyone? Does the Earth? It’s funny that our adherence to the idea of private property is based on nothing more than the fact that we all adhere to the delusion that something can be owned. From Space.com: By Simon Saradzhyan posted: 14 November 2007 03:40 pm ET MOSCOW ? India and Russia have signed ... More About: Mission , Lunar , Missi
Laser Explodes Missles in Mid-air
2007-11-16 14:45:00 If war is important to people, it should be fought by people. From TechBlog: More About: Laser , Odes
Robotic Roaches Do the Trick
2007-11-16 14:39:00 You can get your kids one for christmas this year! From Time: The first thing Jose Halloy wants you to know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It’s true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and several other European institutions have created a ... More About: Robotic , Trick
Paralysed man?s mind is ?read?
2007-11-16 14:33:00 From BBC News: Scientists say they may be on the brink of translating into words the thoughts of a man who can no longer speak, after a pioneering experiment. Electrodes have been implanted in the brain of Eric Ramsay, who has been “locked in” - conscious but paralysed - since a car crash eight years ago. These have ... More About: Read , Mind
Giggling robot becomes one of the kids
2007-11-09 16:15:00 From New Scientist: Computers might not be clever enough to trick adults into thinking they are intelligent yet, but a new study shows that a giggling robot is sophisticated enough to get toddlers to treat it as a peer. An experiment led by Javier Movellan at the University of California San Diego, US, is the first long-term ... More About: Kids , Robot , The Kids
Fuel Cells Gearing Up to Power Auto Industry
2007-11-09 16:11:00 From ENN: The average price for all types of gasoline is holding steady around $2_95 per gallon nationwide, but the pain at the pump might be short-lived as research from the University of Houston may eliminate one of the biggest hurdles to the wide-scale production of fuel cell-powered vehicles. Peter Strasser, an assistant professor of chemical and ... More About: Power , Industry , Fuel , Auto , Fuel Cell
Babies learn to ride robots at UD
2007-11-09 16:05:00 From Physorg: Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of a cartoon series but it is actually the focus of important and innovative research being conducted at the University of Delaware that could have significant repercussions for the cognitive development of infants with special needs. Two UD researchers ? James C. (Cole) Galloway, associate professor ... More About: Robots , Ride , Learn
Pen Phone Design is Smallest Yet
2007-11-09 16:02:00 From Gizmodo: There have been pen phone concepts before, even a few working products, but none as slim and small as this one sent us by an anonymous tipster. He told us this “design A” is not a finished product yet, and added that the undisclosed company he’s working for wants to gauge interest in such ... More About: Design , Phone
In Pictures: Putting Robots To Work
2007-11-09 16:00:00 From Forbes.com: Surveying Most of the robotic cars in DARPA’s Urban Challenge use a Velodyne spinning laser scanner, which bounces 64 laser beams off all objects within a 360-degree field. The 3D images those electronic eyes provide can be used for more than robotic driving. Just as Google mounted a 360-degree camera on ... More About: Pictures , Robots , Work , Putting
Robots that know when they?ve hit you
2007-11-09 15:58:00 From EurekAlert!: Isaac Asimov must be turning in his grave. In blatant contravention of the sci-fi writer?s first law of robotics, Sami Haddadin?s robot regularly hits him in the face. The blows are no accident. Haddadin is part of a research team at the German Aerospace Centre Space Agency (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen aiming to transform industrial robots ... More About: Robots
Stem cells offer hope of Alzheimer?s cure
More articles from this author:2007-11-09 15:57:00 From Scotsman.com: RHIANNON EDWARD BRAIN diseases such as Alzheimer ’s and strokes could be treated by stem-cell therapy, a study suggests. Scientists have used the technique to repair the damaged memory of mice - and believe it could work in humans. Stem cells are the basic building-block cells that can grow and change into different types of tissue. US researchers injected ... More About: Hope , Stem Cells , Cure , Offer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
