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How would you like to invest in immortality?
 | | With his 2045 Initiative, Russian Internet mogul Dmitry Itskov is looking for backers for the world’s first immortality research center. The new venture sells itself: invest in his new research and development interest and the payoff could be immortality, reports Fortune. A new corporate entity that the Russian multi-millionaire will formally announce at an event … more… |
IBM scientists discover new liquid molecular technique to charge memory, logic chips
 | | IBM has announced a materials science breakthrough at the molecular level that could pave the way for a new class of non-volatile memory and logic chips that would use less power than today’s silicon devices. IBM’s scientists discovered a new way to power chips using tiny ionic currents, which are streams of charged molecules that … more… |
DARPA envisions the future of machine learning
 | | DARPA has launched a new programming paradigm for managing uncertain information called “Probabilistic Programming for Advanced Machine Learning”(PPAML). Machine learning — the ability of computers to understand data, manage results, and infer insights from uncertain information — is the force behind many recent revolutions in computing. Unfortunately, every new machine-learning application requires a Herculean effort. … more… |
New cosmic background radiation map challenges some foundations of cosmology
 | | The most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background — the relic radiation from the Big Bang — acquired by ESA’s Planck space telescope, has been released, revealing features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe and may require new physics. The fluctuations in the CMB temperatures at large … more… |
Flash memory combines graphene and molybdenite
 | | EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties — graphene and molybdenite — into a flash memory prototype that is promising in terms of superior performance, size, flexibility and energy consumption. An ideal “energy band” “For our memory model, we combined the unique electronic properties of molybdenite (MoS2) with graphene’s amazing conductivity,” explains … more… |
Full-brain waves challenge area-specific view of brain activity
 | | Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas — when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists shows that this view may be wrong. The entire cortex, not just the area responsible for a certain function, is activated when a … more… |
HP invents glasses-free 3D
 | | HP researchers have developed a glasses-free, multi-directional diffractive backlight technology that allows for rendering of high-resolution, full-parallax 3D images in a zone up to 180° and up to one meter away, HP Innovation blog reports. In other words: glasses-free 3D for your mobile device. The display technology forms 3D images by projecting different 2D images … more… |
Amazingly realistic digital screen characters are finally here
 | | Meet Zoe: a digital talking head. She can express a range of human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction, according to researchers at Toshiba’s Cambridge Research Lab and the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, who created her. Zoe, or her offspring, could be used as … more… |
Under the skin, a tiny blood-testing laboratory
 | | EPFL scientists have developed a tiny, portable personal blood testing laboratory: a minuscule device implanted just under the skin provides an immediate analysis of substances in the body, and a radio module transmits the results to a doctor over the cellular phone network. This feat of miniaturization has many potential applications, including monitoring patients undergoing … more… |
DARPA seeks more robust military wireless networks
 | | DARPA has created the Wireless Network Defense program, which aims to develop new protocols that enable military wireless networks to remain operational despite inadvertent misconfigurations or malicious compromise of individual nodes. “Current security efforts focus on individual radios or nodes, rather than the network, so a single misconfigured or compromised radio could debilitate an entire … more… |
Bringing a virtual brain to life
 | | In 2009, Dr. Henry Markram conceived of the Human Brain Project, a sprawling and controversial initiative of more than 150 institutions around the world that he hopes will bring scientists together to realize his dream, as The New York Times notes. In January, the European Union raised the stakes by awarding the project a 10-year … more… |
Can control theory make software better?
 | | Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and a colleague at Georgia Tech have developed a method for applying principles from control theory — which analyzes dynamical systems ranging from robots to power grids — to formal verification, a set of methods for mathematically proving that a computer program does what it’s … more… |
A 3D-printed Moon base baked from lunar dust
 | | Space architects have unveiled a concept for a 3D-printed Moon base called SinterHab near the lunar south pole. Modules would be constructed from lunar dust by microwave sintering and contour crafting, built by a large NASA spider robot. Unlike an earlier, more bulky concept using a mobile printing array of nozzles on a 6 meter … more… |
New system would let you take a drug by just pressing your skin
 | | An implantable gel material that can release drugs in response to pressure applied by a patient has been developed by researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. Oral administration of drugs may be difficult for patients experiencing nausea during cancer chemotherapy, for diabetics (to release insulin), and for other conditions. The idea … more… |
Whole brain cellular-level activity mapping once a second
 | | Neuroscientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have mapped the activity of nearly all the neurons in a vertebrate brain at cellular resolution, with signficant implications for neuroscience research and projects like the proposed Brain Activity Map (BAM). The researchers used high-speed light sheet microscopy to image the activity of 80% of the neurons in the … more… |
Seeing a chemical reaction in real time
 | | The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have enabled unprecedented views of a catalyst in action, an important step in the effort to develop cleaner and more efficient energy sources. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used LCLS, together with computerized simulations, to reveal … more… |
DNA tool kit goes live online
 | | BIOFAB, based in Emeryville, California, which calls itself “the world’s first biological design-build facility,” has announced availability of DNA sequences that allow precise control of gene activity in the bacterium Escherichia coli, Nature News reports. Launched in 2009 with a US$1.4-million grant from the National Science Foundation, BIOFAB aims to advance synthetic biology by creating … more… |
Scientists transplant neural stem cells from a monkey’s skin into its brain
| University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from stem cells from a monkey’s skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells. After six months, the cells looked entirely normal, and were only detectable because they initially were tagged with a fluorescent protein. The transplanted cells … more… |
Engineered artificial human livers for drug testing and discovery
 | | Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) researchers have engineered an artificial human liver that mimics the natural tissue environment closely. The development makes it possible for companies to predict the toxicity of new drugs earlier, potentially speeding up the drug development process and reducing the cost of manufacturing. The liver is an important target organ … more… |
Boyden to share prestigious brain prize
 | | Ed Boyden, a faculty member in the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, was named a recipient of the 2013 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize. The 1 million Euro prize is awarded for the development of optogenetics, a technology that makes it possible to control brain activity using light. The Brain … more… |
Hey, at least you can be virtually immortal
 | | Where their grandparents may have left behind a few grainy photos, a death certificate or a record from Ellis Island, retirees today have the ability to leave a cradle-to-grave record of their lives, The New York Times reports. Two major forces are driving virtual immortality. The first and most obvious: inexpensive video cameras and editing programs, … more… |
A cancer gene therapy activated by a pill
 | | A unique new cancer treatment uses gene therapy to induce a cancer-fighting immune response whose intensity can then be controlled with a pill. The combination could help tailor treatment to a patient’s individual response, MIT Technology Review reports. The treatment uses the body’s own cells or tumor cells to produce extra copies of a naturally … more… |
Paramount acquires science-fiction novel ‘Nexus’
 | | Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to Nexus, the science fiction novel by Ramez Naam, to be produced by Mary Parent of Disruption for Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa. The author, former CEO of Apex Nanotechnology, is the author of the nonfiction book More Than Human: Embracing The Promise Of Biological Enhancement. Here’s the plot from Amazon: … more… |
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 | | With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in … more… |
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