April 2012
Talking Monkeys In Space: How to hide from... →
talkingmonkeynews:
By John D. Sutter, CNN
(CNN) - If you take Adam Harvey’s advice, here’s what you might wanna wear to a party this weekend: A funny hat, asymmetrical glasses, a tuft of hair that dangles off your nose bridge and, most likely, a black-and-white triangle taped to your cheekbone. Optional:…
Do Kids Care If Their Robot Friend Gets Stuffed... →
Scientists discover enzyme that could slow part of... →
singularitarian:
New research published online in the FASEB Journal suggests that a specific enzyme, called 5-lipoxygenase, plays a key role in cell death induced by microgravity environments, and that inhibiting this enzyme will likely help prevent or lessen the severity of immune problems in astronauts caused by spaceflight. Additionally, since space conditions initiate health problems that...
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http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-rare-peek-behind-bloo... →
Bloom, a decade-old company, is usually secretive about its technology, its financials and its overall plans. But the company, in a rare video interview, tells GigaOM about its next-generation technology, which includes a 200 kW fuel cell that has double the power in the same footprint as its older 100 kW system. The new 200 kW fuel cell is 20 percent more efficient than the older...
UCSF breakthrough turns bad fat cells into good... →
Forget Graphene, Silicene Is Here to Blow Your... →
smarterplanet:
Remember how graphene, the single-atom thick layer of carbon was so slick it was going to change everything? Well it looks like silicene is here to steal the spotlight. Researchers have just made the first sheet of single-atom thick silicon.
Silicene has been a work in progress for years, but they think they’ve finally got it down now, and it represents a tremendous breakthrough....
http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-pla... →
Robot Companions For All Europeans? →
twicr:
A proposal is being put forward by the Robot Companions for Citizens (CA-RoboCom) consortium has [sic] the aim of giving a robot to every citizen in the European Union (EU).
Someone with a particular willingness to believe in conspiracy theories might see this as a plot to build a robot army and infiltrate our homes in preparation for the inevitable robot uprising, and by someone I of...
http://www.exponentialtimes.net/videos/tedxleuven-p... →
Nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem... →
Singularity University: meet the people who are... →
http://www.heatonresearch.com/content/non-mathemati... →
How Watson Works - semanticweb.com →
smarterplanet:
Ivan Herman recently offered some insight into how Watson actually works. Herman reports, “I was at Chris Welty’s keynote yesterday at the WWW2012 Conference. His talk was on Jeopardy/Watson and, although this is not the first time I heard/saw something on Watson, some things really became clear only at his keynote. Namely: what is really the central paradigm that made the...
http://www.singularityweblog.com/singularity-1-on-1... →
Laboratory Equipment: Researchers Find Possible... →
laboratoryequipment:
Physicists have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding could help scientists eliminate a major impediment to the development of fusion as a clean and abundant source of energy for producing…
The robot revolution is just beginning - MIT News... →
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/gree... →
A certain well-known engineer has a product to add to the mix. Here’s a hint: He rides a Segway. Dean Kamen, who invented the Segway and several groundbreaking medical devices, has put a decade of work into a water purifier that he calls the “Slingshot.” The name is a reference to the story of David and Goliath — to Kamen, waterborne disease is a Goliath of a problem, and...
Tech's Next Feats? Maybe On-Demand Kidneys, Cheap...
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Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies, looki…
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FutureNow! 24/7: The world first Transgenic cloned... →
futurenow321:
The world’s first transgenic sheep produced via a simplified cloning technique, known as handmade cloning (seriously), is here. Peng Peng, named for the two principal scientists doing the cloning (who happen to have the same name), was successfully delivered back on March 26 and is developing…
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases... →
Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The study appears online in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and was led by scientists at Trinity College Dublin: PhD student, Luke McNally and Assistant Professor Dr Andrew Jackson at the...
Nanotechnology can launch a new age of space... →
The Search for Alien Life: Manned Missions vs... →
Science: Bucky Balls Could Double Your... →
Buckminster fullerene molecules, the naturally occurring spheres made up of 60 carbon atoms, have long been suspected to have biological benefits. Now, a study that set out to establish if they were toxic when administered orally has proven quite the opposite—they almost doubled the lifespan…
It's the network: Ever wonder why your friends... →
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Serious Blow to Dark Matter Theories? →
The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun.
According to widely accepted theories, the solar neighborhood was expected to be filled with dark matter, a mysterious invisible substance that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational force it exerts. But a new study by a team of astronomers...
How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New... →
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2012/04/sentien... →
Laboratory Equipment: 3D Printers Could Make Drugs... →
laboratoryequipment:
A new 3D printing process developed at the Univ. of Glasgow could revolutionize the way scientists, doctors and even the general public create chemical products. Prof. Lee Cronin believes his research could lead to the development of home chemical fabricators which consumers could use to design…
Talking Monkeys In Space: Pot Legalization Could... →
talkingmonkeynews:
Your plans to celebrate 4/20 this Friday could actually make the government some money, if only such activities were legal. That’s according to a bunch of economists, and some prominent ones too.
More than 300 economists, including three nobel laureates, have signed a petitioncalling…
http://blisstree.com/live/sex/katie-roiphe-feminist... →
What Katie Roiphe (And Her Critics) Ignore: The Neuroscience Of Sexual Submission
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The wild success of the badly-written BDSM sexcapade Fifty Shades of Grey proves that what women really want is to be smacked around a bit more in bed—at least, so say certain members of the chattering class. This has (of course) prompted...
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/04/Materials-Carbon-... →
Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water. That’s one of a range of potential innovations for the material created in a single step. The team found for the first time that boron puts kinks and...
The Space Review: A new “Great Enterprise” for... →
For many space advocates, their ultimate goals go beyond reducing the cost of space access, opening new markets, and creating new uses for space. For decades, their long-term goal has been to enable humans to live in space permanently: space colonization or, more recently, space settlement (avoiding the negative historical connotations of “colonization”). It sounds fanciful and far-fetched to...
