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Scientists make bacteria behave like computers
2008-06-05 08:51:00 Bacteria have been programmed to behave like computers, assembling themselves into complex shapes based on instructions stuffed into their genes. The study is detailed in April 28 issue of the journal Nature. In a paper March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another team led by Weiss showed they could insert DNA into ... More About: Computers , Bacteria , Make , Scientists
?Bacteria as Tiny Computers? - MSNBC
2008-06-05 08:38:00 … Bacteria as tiny computers Since 2000, multiple studies have focused on the largely untapped potential for bacteria, yeast and mammalian cells to be harnessed as tiny and abundant computers. ?Ours is unique in that the operation required to solve the problem takes place in a living cell,? Haynes said. The unique in vivo system takes advantage of ... More About: Computers , Tiny , MSNBC
the world is at your fingertips
2008-06-05 00:43:00 This video shows that the pace of change is being noticed by normal, everyday, non-singulatarian individuals. It says that it is not just us Singulatarians and Transhumanists with our facts and figures explaining the acceleration of technology and how we interact with it, but that anyone plugged into the system can just…feel it. They feel it. ... More About: World , The World
Self-Replicating Machines not so Far-Fetched Afterall
2008-06-04 23:30:00 Prototype of machine that copies itself RepRap has, so far, been capable of making everyday plastic goods such as door handles, sandals and coat hooks. Now, the machine has also succeeded in copying all its own 3D-printed parts. These parts have been printed and assembled by RepRap team member, Vik Olliver, in Auckland, New Zealand, into a ... More About: Machines
An Email From the Heavens Ignites Burning Questions Regarding the Future of
2008-06-04 22:37:00 Last night on Earth, an awaiting tank of millions of gallons of gasoline received an electronic message from the heavens. It Said: “Ignite. Burn with brilliant power. Ensure the message memetically traverses various mediums. Most will be frightened. They will feel horror but will not understand it. The media will console them. One Man alone will ... More About: Email , Questions , Future , The Future , Burning
The Calm Before the Storm
2008-05-23 17:58:00 Yes, Nanotechnology is coming. It’s the most complicated science ever attempted. At this time we must wait patiently for the explosion. Something this big doesn’t happen all at once but if past trends in technology are any indication, this one will be huge. When Molecular NanoTechnology (MNT) hits the knee of the curve, the adoption ... More About: Storm , Calm
Of Stars and Family
2008-05-21 14:51:00 Iron and Nickel didn’t just bang out of the violent birth the Universe. All of the heavy elements were formed in the bursting death of a star who’s time had come. Those heavy elements are where planets, and ultimately, we came from. You were a star in the heavens at one point in time. Seeing ... More About: Stars , Family
Missing matter found in deep space
2008-05-21 14:34:00 By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Tue May 20, 3:17 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have found some matter that had been missing in deep space and say it is strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone of the universe. The ethereal strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms could account for up to ... More About: Space , Matter , Deep , Missing
Researchers Reveal the Neuronal Computations Governing Strategic Social Int
2008-05-21 14:31:00 In a strategic game, the success of any player depends not just on his or her own actions, but on the behavior of every other player in the game. To be successful, players must not only pay attention to what other players do, but also how they are thinking. Understanding how the brain functions during ... More About: Social , Strategic
We think of time the way we experience it?slowly
2008-05-18 06:55:00 Go ahead and fight for what you think is right. That is how history unfolds. Right and might engaged in a struggle to form the best solution for order. Raise your flags and say your prayers but behold the man with the gun. We all like to think we’re different. The only reason humans have ... More About: Time , Experience
Lost Is What We Are
2008-05-17 08:55:00 Lost is what we are. Lost in a world, in a Universe with no answers. Reality is just another form of dreaming. Our daily reality are dreams to the nightly mind. Weird and strange. And dreams don’t understand Conscious thought. It doesn’t make sense to them. Nightly dreams are the animal of the human mind, ... More About: Lost
Thoughts of the Day
2008-05-12 00:25:00 The Earth is a single organism of which we are a part. You are the Earth, we ARE the Universe. You are Korean, You are African. You are the rivers, the trees, the galaxies, and the fire. You are every animal, every burning star and every square inch of the vastness of space. You are ... More About: Thoughts
Lighting in a Bottle; Thoughts within a Brain
2008-05-02 05:23:00 Puff…the hazy exhale from my lips drifted upward and shimmers through the dim light from the porch light. Staring East. Lightning cracks open the sky and I see. We’ve captured lightning in a bottle. Beautiful. My mind finds focus. We have been pushed from the cliff. Momentum. ... More About: Lighting , Thoughts , Brain , Bottle
Nanoscale Printing Has Big Implications for Science and Technology
2008-04-25 19:46:00 Researchers from IBM’s Zurich Research Lab and Switzerland’s ETH Zurich science and technology university today announced the development of a dramatic new printing process that can manipulate nanosize particles to create larger images. The new technology promises to allow scientists, medical professionals and technologists to for the first time place particles smaller than 100 nanometers ... More About: Science , Technology , Nanotechnology , Science and Technology , Printing
A Brief History of Exoskeletons
2008-04-21 05:05:00 Click HERE to see the photo gallery timeline. More About: History
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
2008-04-17 14:40:00 WASHINGTON - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency ? a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people. Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from foreigners who ... More About: Arrest , Person
Ten weirdest computers
2008-04-12 05:30:00 Today’s computers use pulses of electricity and flipping magnets to manipulate and store data. But information can be processed in many other, weirder, ways? 1. Optical computing 2. Quantum computing 3. DNA computing more>>> More About: Computers
Sickest Guitar Playing?EVER!
2008-04-12 02:16:00 Even you old farts out there can enjoy this! More About: Guitar
Being Human: Human Computer Interaction in 2020
2008-04-07 19:17:00 Click on link to view Microsofts report on human computer interaction in 2020: Being Human : Human Computer Interaction in 2020
The Matrix: Coming to a Reality Near You!
2008-04-05 16:34:00 15:59 03 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service Colin Barras Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix -style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, thinks so. He says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away. In 1950, Alan Turing, the father of ... More About: Reality , The Matrix
Multiverse Demo Worlds
2008-04-04 05:06:00 We created two simple “demo worlds” to provide a live demonstration of the Multiverse platform: Times Square, primarly a demonstration of graphics capabilites that is purely for socializing, and a the Demo Fantasy World, that includes some simple gameplay elements. The demo worlds are not full-featured games, but they provide examples of the capabilities of the ... More About: Worlds
New Microsoft Technology ?SURFACE? to be used publicly for first time
2008-04-04 01:55:00 So…the Desktop will FINALLY be the top of a desk again? The way that humans interface with computers is changing. Technologies such as the Wii and Surface are moving us in a more engaging and intimate direction. No, Microsoft hasn’t suddenly transformed its 30-inch, multi-touch Surface into a big-ass cellphone. It has, however, chosen ... More About: Technology , Time , First Time
Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller Than Mp3
2008-04-04 00:49:00 ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2008) ? Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and is made possible by two innovations: recreating in a computer both the real-world ... More About: Music , File , Times
iMind: the Mind-control iPod accessory
2008-04-04 00:47:00 Toidi-Naru launches a products to hange the way consumers think about music Listening to music couldn’t be more intuitive, thanks to developments from Taiwanese electronics specialist Toidi-Naru. Launching today, their new Foops brand includes the iMind - an iPod accessory which lets you control your mp3 player using the power of your mind. iMind, a state-of-the-art, super ... More About: Ipod , Accessory , Mind Control , Control
British researchers create human-animal hybrid embryo amid political row
2008-04-04 00:33:00 For the first time in Britain, researchers at Newcastle University said Tuesday they had created human-animal hybrid embryos, amid a political row over a disputed embryo research bill in parliament. According to the northern English university, the research, which was first presented at a lecture in Tel Aviv on March 25, has yet to be ... More About: Political , Animal , Hybrid , Human , British
Nano-sized technology has super-sized effect on tumors
2008-04-04 00:31:00 Anyone facing chemotherapy would welcome an advance promising to dramatically reduce their dose of these often harsh drugs. Using nanotechnology, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken a step closer to that goal. The researchers focused a powerful drug directly on tumors in rabbits using drug-coated nanoparticles. They found that a ... More About: Technology , Super , Effect , Nano
Robot Walks Like an Animal on Four Legs - Amazing Video!
2008-03-26 05:12:00 Awww….such a cute….dog? More About: Video , Robot , Animal , Legs , Amazing
Blogging the Singularity is One Year Old!
2008-03-26 05:11:00 It was one year ago when I fell very ill during spring break. I just couldn’t bring myself to study so I started this blog instead. I hope that everyone enjoys the news and information from my blog. I am excited about what the second year may bring. I wish I could make a living ... More About: Blogging , Year
New 3-D Camera Will Have 12,616 Lenses to tell depth in a photo
2008-03-25 03:25:00 ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2008) ? The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat, two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras placed apart from each other) can take more interesting 3-D ... More About: Photo , Camera , Lenses , Depth
University creates virtual campus
More articles from this author:2008-03-22 06:35:00 Science and technology graduates at the University of Sussex have created a virtual campus which looks like the university’s real site. The virtual campus can be visited by people who are signed up to the web-based virtual world, Second Life. Each user creates a virtual version of themselves, or an avatar, which can then fly around the ... More About: Campus , Virtual 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
