martes, 2 de agosto de 2011
News and Blog Headlines
Genetic ‘conductor’ involved with new brain cell production in adults
‘Lovotics’: the new science of engineering human, robot love
The future of chip manufacturing
Are you ready for robots with sensitive skin?
Scientists use optogenetics to control reward-seeking behavior
The physics of Jackson Pollock
How electrons become entangled
Evolution of skin and ovarian cancer cells
How chronic stress causes Alzheimer’s, other brain diseases
Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers
Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI
World’s data will grow by 50X in next decade, IDC study predicts
LSD alleviates ‘suicide headaches’
Solar-powered 3-D printer prints glass from sand
Inkjet-printed solar devices promise dramatically lower cost
Drawing instant electronic circuits on paper
Singularity Summit 2011 to be held in New York City Oct. 15-16
Diabetes affects more than 300 million worldwide, but life-expectancy has increased
Brain rhythm associated with learning linked to running speed
New software advances brain image research
Ads for monkeys: sign of the end times?
Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ shields objects from sound
Pythagoras Solar turns windows into panels of energy
Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated
Hippie days
‘Orca ears’ inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone
Stealth mold genes take over human genome, jump to databases and chips!
Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging
How to make a clock run for 10,000 years
Asteroid to buzz Earth Monday, June 27th
Power grid change may disrupt clocks
Human-genome browser now available on iPad
Full-spectrum solar cells may reach 42 percent efficiency
Hand-hacking lets you pluck strings like a musical pro
Mayo Clinic developing artificial pancreas to ease diabetes burden
Volkswagen shows off self-driving autopilot technology for cars
Cerf: streaming network crunch could be eliminated
Japanese pop star created digitally fools fans
Latest News
Genetic ‘conductor’ involved with new brain cell production in adults
July 1, 2011
A team of North Carolina State University researchers has discovered more about how the Foxj1 gene — connected to the production of new brain cells in adults — does its job. The team had previously discovered that the gene was an “off switch” that told neuronal stem cells to stop reproducing and triggered the development of … more…
‘Lovotics’: the new science of engineering human, robot love
July 1, 2011 Source Link: Technology Review Mim's Bits
Bi-directional love between a human and a robot — realistic, genuine, biologically-inspired love — is the goal of Hooman Samani, an AI researcher at the Social Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore. He calls this new discipline Lovotics. He has developed a comprehensive AI simulation of the emotional and endocrine systems underpinning love … more…
The future of chip manufacturing
July 1, 2011
Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have developed a way to get the resolution of high-speed e-beam lithography (commonly used to prototype computer chips) down from 25 to just nine nanometers, allowing for smaller, faster chips. Combined with other emerging technologies, it could point the way toward making e-beam lithography practical as a … more…
Scientists use optogenetics to control reward-seeking behavior
June 30, 2011
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have manipulated brain wiring responsible for reward-seeking behaviors in mice, using optogenetic stimulation targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens. The finding represents potential treatments for addiction and other neuropsychiatric diseases, according to the researchers. With the optogenetic … more…
How electrons become entangled
June 30, 2011
An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, Princeton University and LMU Munich have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the development of quantum computers. The research brings fresh insight to the study of the Kondo problem, a phenomenon first observed in … more…
Evolution of skin and ovarian cancer cells
June 30, 2011
A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a way to uncover the evolution of human cancer cells, determining the order in which mutations emerge in them as they shift from a normal, healthy state into invasive, malignant masses. The team developed a way of teasing … more…
How chronic stress causes Alzheimer’s, other brain diseases
June 30, 2011
Chronic stress has long been linked with neurodegeneration. Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have now found a mechanism: chronic stress (physical or mental) causes overexpression of the RCAN1 gene, in turn leading to neurodegenerative disease. The mechanism involves these steps: 1. Chronic overproduction of RCAN1 causes hyperphosphorylation of tau proteins in the … more…
Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers
June 30, 2011 Source Link: Computerworld
A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say. “TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan program that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated threat today,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov in a detailed analysis Monday. TDL-4 infects … more…
Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI
June 29, 2011
Linguist Noam Chomsky has derided researchers in machine learning who use purely statistical methods to produce behavior that mimics something in the world, but who don’t try to understand the meaning of that behavior, points out Kevin Gold, an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Google’s Director of Research Peter Norvig has argued that … more…
World’s data will grow by 50X in next decade, IDC study predicts
June 29, 2011
In 2011, the amount of information created and replicated will surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes), growing by a factor of 9 in just five years, according to the fifth annual IDC Digital Universe study released Tuesday. By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of “information … more…
LSD alleviates ‘suicide headaches’
June 29, 2011 Source Link: Science Now
Six patients treated with 2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a significant reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free of the attacks for weeks or months, according to a presentation by Harvard Medical School and Hannover Medical School researchers. 2-bromo-LSD (BOL) was developed by Sandoz, the Swiss company that discovered the psychedelic … more…
Solar-powered 3-D printer prints glass from sand
June 29, 2011
Markus Kaiser’s solar sintering project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment, sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, combining natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. His work with solar-sintering aims to … more…
Inkjet-printed solar devices promise dramatically lower cost
June 29, 2011
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered how to create successful “CIGS” (copper, indium, gallium and selenium) solar devices with inkjet printing, reducing raw material waste by 90 percent and significantly lowering the cost of producing solar energy cells. The process could lead to high-performing, rapidly produced, ultra-low cost thin film solar electronics, according to … more…
Drawing instant electronic circuits on paper
June 29, 2011
University of Illinois engineers have developed a silver-inked rollerball pen capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood and other surfaces. After writing, the liquid in the ink dries to leave conductive silver pathways — in essence, paper-mounted wires. The ink maintains its conductivity through multiple bends and folds of the paper, enabling … more…
Singularity Summit 2011 to be held in New York City Oct. 15-16
June 28, 2011
Singularity Summit 2011 will be a TED-style two-day event on October 15–16 featuring futurist Ray Kurzweil and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings on IBM’s Watson, economist Tyler Cowen on the economic impacts of emerging technologies, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel on innovation and jump-starting the economy. Other speakers include neuroscientist Christof Koch, MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, … more…
Diabetes affects more than 300 million worldwide, but life-expectancy has increased
June 28, 2011
Researchers at Imperial College London and the Harvard School of Public Health have found that the number of adults worldwide with diabetes reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number in 1980. Seventy per cent of the rise was due to population growth and aging, with the other 30 per cent due to higher … more…
Brain rhythm associated with learning linked to running speed
June 28, 2011
Rhythms in the brain that are associated with learning become stronger as the body moves faster, neurophysicists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have found. The experiment was performed by measuring electrical signals from hundreds of mice neurons using microwires, the researchers said. Nearly a hundred gigabytes of data was collected every day. Analysis … more…
New software advances brain image research
June 28, 2011
A new software program that allows neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies has been developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, trimming weeks and even months from the research process. The new software can be programmed to comb scientific literature for published articles relevant to a particular topic, … more…
Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ shields objects from sound
June 28, 2011 Source Link: BBC News
Scientists at Duke University have developed a cloaking device using metamaterials that makes objects invisible to sound waves. The device uses stacked sheets of plastic with regular arrays of holes through them. The exact size and placement of the holes on each sheet, and the spacing between the sheets, has a predictable effect on incoming sound … more…
Pythagoras Solar turns windows into panels of energy
June 28, 2011
Pythagoras Solar, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, is working on creating “solar windows” that could generate power for office buildings and shield offices from sunlight, thus reducing air conditioning costs, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Thin horizontal rows of silicon cells embedded between dual panes of glass catch light from above. And through … more…
Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated
June 28, 2011
Physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Konstanz in Germany have developed a breakthrough in the use of diamond in quantum physics, marking an important step toward quantum computing. The physicists were able to coax the quantum information contained within a single electron in diamond to move into an adjacent … more…
Hippie days
June 27, 2011
Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each other from a distance? What were the implications? Many of these scientists, … more…
Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging
June 27, 2011
Researchers at MIT have discovered a gene called NDT80 that can double yeast lifespan when turned on late in life. The gene is activated when yeast cell rejuvenation occurs. When they turned on this gene in aged cells that were not reproducing, the cells lived twice as long as normal. The MIT team found that … more…
How to make a clock run for 10,000 years
June 27, 2011 Source Link: Wired
Billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has a long-term plan: to build a clock that runs for 10,000 years. The idea for the clock has been around since Danny Hillis first proposed it in WIRED magazine in 1995. Since then, Hillis and others have built prototypes and created a nonprofit, the Long Now Foundation, to work on the clock … more…
Asteroid to buzz Earth Monday, June 27th
June 26, 2011 Source Link: Sky & Telescope
Asteroid 2011 MD, a chunk of rock estimated to be 25 to 55 feet across, is estimated to pass less than 8,000 miles above the Earth’s surface around 4:30 p.m. EDT (20:30 UT) on Monday, June 27th. The actual event will be observable only from South Africa and parts of Antarctica, but the approach will … more…
Power grid change may disrupt clocks
June 26, 2011 Source Link: Associated Press
A yearlong experiment by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with the nation’s electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems, and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast. Officials say they want to try this to make the power supply more reliable, save … more…
Human-genome browser now available on iPad
June 26, 2011
Genome Wowser provides an iPad-enabled view of the human genome, according to iFreeware . The app provides a functional presentation of the popular University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser that is intuitive, highly portable, and allows a “Google Maps”-like navigation experience. Users can view genomic annotation tracks; zoom in, out, and across a … more…
Full-spectrum solar cells may reach 42 percent efficiency
June 26, 2011
University of Toronto engineering researchers have developed the first efficient tandem solar cell based on colloidal quantum dots (CQD). It may lead to inexpensive coatings that efficiently convert the sun’s rays to electricity. The device is a stack of two light-absorbing layers — one tuned to capture the sun’s visible rays, the other to harvest … more…
Hand-hacking lets you pluck strings like a musical pro
June 26, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist Tech
PossessedHand, being developed jointly by the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, electrically stimulates the muscles in the forearm that move your fingers. A belt worn around that part of the subject’s arm contains 28 electrode pads that flex the joints between the three bones of each finger and the two bones … more…
Mayo Clinic developing artificial pancreas to ease diabetes burden
June 24, 2011
Mayo Clinic endocrinologists are developing an artificial pancreas that will deliver insulin automatically and with an individualized precision never before possible. The “Closed Loop System” under development includes a blood sugar monitor, an automatic insulin pump, a set of activity monitors that attach to the body, and a central processing unit. In related research, they … more…
Volkswagen shows off self-driving autopilot technology for cars
June 24, 2011 Source Link: Motor Authority
Volkswagen has presented its “Temporary Auto Pilot” technology. Monitored by a driver, the technology can allow a car to drive semi-automatically at speeds of up to 80 mph on highways. It works using a combination of existing technology such as adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assist, rolling them all into one comprehensive function. In the … more…
Cerf: streaming network crunch could be eliminated
June 24, 2011 Source Link: Computerworld
While Internet carriers may fret about Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming media services saturating their bandwidth, Internet forefather Vint Cerf has a simple answer for this potential problem: increase bandwidth exponentially. With sufficient bandwidth, streaming video services of prerecorded content wouldn’t be necessary, explained Cerf, who is now a technology evangelist at Google. With sufficient … more…
Japanese pop star created digitally fools fans
June 24, 2011
Japan’s latest pop sensation, Aimi Eguchi — the newest member of the Japanese band AKB48 — is a virtual composite of six other band members. The fake pop star first appeared in an ad for Japanese candy, but also has an online profile and has been featured in a magazine photo shoot using faked pictures. … more…
New BLOG POSTS
Are you ready for robots with sensitive skin?
June 30, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Robots have just taken another (slightly weird) step toward becoming our overlords. Technische Universität München (TUM) scientists are developing an artificial skin for robots that will provide tactile information to the robot to supplement information from cameras, infrared scanners, and gripping hands. The idea is to let the robot know when it touches an object … more…
The physics of Jackson Pollock
June 30, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Can you tell the difference between a painting by an elephant and Jackson Pollack? (Take this test before reading further.) A mathematician at Harvard University and a physicist-art historian at Boston College think they can. Pollock was an “intuitive master” of laws that govern the flow of liquids under gravity, they believe. The researchers examined the … more…
Ads for monkeys: sign of the end times?
June 28, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
This is not an Onion story. No, really. Turns out Laurie Santos gave a TED talk last year on “monkeynomics” — the realization that monkeys understood an abstract idea like currency. Unfortunately, two advertising executives happened to be in the audience, New Scientist reports today. The result: a monkey ad campaign (shown at the Cannes Lions … more…
‘Orca ears’ inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone
June 27, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Imagine a miniature microphone that responds to ocean sounds from 1 to 100kHz (a deep inaudible rumble to ultrasonic sounds) with a dynamic range of 160 dB (a whisper in a quiet library to the sound from 1 ton of TNT exploding 60 feet away) and operates at any depth. An amazing microphone that does … more…
Stealth mold genes take over human genome, jump to databases and chips!
June 27, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
“Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples,” Technology Review‘s The Physics ArXiv blog said on Thursday. “Now, the human genome itself has become contaminated. Bill Langdon at University College London and Matthew Arno at Kings College … more…
New EVENTS
Singularity Summit 2011
Dates: Oct 15 – 16, 2011
Location: New York, New York
more...
New books
Virolution
author Frank Ryan
Amazon | From an acclaimed scientific thinker and writer comes the most exciting advance in evolution since Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene — how the extraordinary role of viruses in evolution is revolutionizing biology and medicine. Combining Darwin, the double helix, the genome project, and viruses to explain the last great mystery of evolution, this book is the … more…
Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future — and Locked Us In
author Brian X. Chen
Amazon | Even Steve Jobs didn’t know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere “three revolutionary products” — an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became … more…
War of the Worldviews: Science Vs. Spirituality
author Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow
Amazon | Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious — but respectful — clash of worldviews that grew along with their friendship.
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Genetic ‘conductor’ involved with new brain cell production in adults
‘Lovotics’: the new science of engineering human, robot love
The future of chip manufacturing
Are you ready for robots with sensitive skin?
Scientists use optogenetics to control reward-seeking behavior
The physics of Jackson Pollock
How electrons become entangled
Evolution of skin and ovarian cancer cells
How chronic stress causes Alzheimer’s, other brain diseases
Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers
Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI
World’s data will grow by 50X in next decade, IDC study predicts
LSD alleviates ‘suicide headaches’
Solar-powered 3-D printer prints glass from sand
Inkjet-printed solar devices promise dramatically lower cost
Drawing instant electronic circuits on paper
Singularity Summit 2011 to be held in New York City Oct. 15-16
Diabetes affects more than 300 million worldwide, but life-expectancy has increased
Brain rhythm associated with learning linked to running speed
New software advances brain image research
Ads for monkeys: sign of the end times?
Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ shields objects from sound
Pythagoras Solar turns windows into panels of energy
Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated
Hippie days
‘Orca ears’ inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone
Stealth mold genes take over human genome, jump to databases and chips!
Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging
How to make a clock run for 10,000 years
Asteroid to buzz Earth Monday, June 27th
Power grid change may disrupt clocks
Human-genome browser now available on iPad
Full-spectrum solar cells may reach 42 percent efficiency
Hand-hacking lets you pluck strings like a musical pro
Mayo Clinic developing artificial pancreas to ease diabetes burden
Volkswagen shows off self-driving autopilot technology for cars
Cerf: streaming network crunch could be eliminated
Japanese pop star created digitally fools fans
Latest News
Genetic ‘conductor’ involved with new brain cell production in adults
July 1, 2011
A team of North Carolina State University researchers has discovered more about how the Foxj1 gene — connected to the production of new brain cells in adults — does its job. The team had previously discovered that the gene was an “off switch” that told neuronal stem cells to stop reproducing and triggered the development of … more…
‘Lovotics’: the new science of engineering human, robot love
July 1, 2011 Source Link: Technology Review Mim's Bits
Bi-directional love between a human and a robot — realistic, genuine, biologically-inspired love — is the goal of Hooman Samani, an AI researcher at the Social Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore. He calls this new discipline Lovotics. He has developed a comprehensive AI simulation of the emotional and endocrine systems underpinning love … more…
The future of chip manufacturing
July 1, 2011
Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have developed a way to get the resolution of high-speed e-beam lithography (commonly used to prototype computer chips) down from 25 to just nine nanometers, allowing for smaller, faster chips. Combined with other emerging technologies, it could point the way toward making e-beam lithography practical as a … more…
Scientists use optogenetics to control reward-seeking behavior
June 30, 2011
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have manipulated brain wiring responsible for reward-seeking behaviors in mice, using optogenetic stimulation targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens. The finding represents potential treatments for addiction and other neuropsychiatric diseases, according to the researchers. With the optogenetic … more…
How electrons become entangled
June 30, 2011
An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, Princeton University and LMU Munich have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the development of quantum computers. The research brings fresh insight to the study of the Kondo problem, a phenomenon first observed in … more…
Evolution of skin and ovarian cancer cells
June 30, 2011
A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a way to uncover the evolution of human cancer cells, determining the order in which mutations emerge in them as they shift from a normal, healthy state into invasive, malignant masses. The team developed a way of teasing … more…
How chronic stress causes Alzheimer’s, other brain diseases
June 30, 2011
Chronic stress has long been linked with neurodegeneration. Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have now found a mechanism: chronic stress (physical or mental) causes overexpression of the RCAN1 gene, in turn leading to neurodegenerative disease. The mechanism involves these steps: 1. Chronic overproduction of RCAN1 causes hyperphosphorylation of tau proteins in the … more…
Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers
June 30, 2011 Source Link: Computerworld
A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say. “TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan program that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated threat today,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov in a detailed analysis Monday. TDL-4 infects … more…
Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI
June 29, 2011
Linguist Noam Chomsky has derided researchers in machine learning who use purely statistical methods to produce behavior that mimics something in the world, but who don’t try to understand the meaning of that behavior, points out Kevin Gold, an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Google’s Director of Research Peter Norvig has argued that … more…
World’s data will grow by 50X in next decade, IDC study predicts
June 29, 2011
In 2011, the amount of information created and replicated will surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes), growing by a factor of 9 in just five years, according to the fifth annual IDC Digital Universe study released Tuesday. By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of “information … more…
LSD alleviates ‘suicide headaches’
June 29, 2011 Source Link: Science Now
Six patients treated with 2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a significant reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free of the attacks for weeks or months, according to a presentation by Harvard Medical School and Hannover Medical School researchers. 2-bromo-LSD (BOL) was developed by Sandoz, the Swiss company that discovered the psychedelic … more…
Solar-powered 3-D printer prints glass from sand
June 29, 2011
Markus Kaiser’s solar sintering project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment, sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, combining natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. His work with solar-sintering aims to … more…
Inkjet-printed solar devices promise dramatically lower cost
June 29, 2011
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered how to create successful “CIGS” (copper, indium, gallium and selenium) solar devices with inkjet printing, reducing raw material waste by 90 percent and significantly lowering the cost of producing solar energy cells. The process could lead to high-performing, rapidly produced, ultra-low cost thin film solar electronics, according to … more…
Drawing instant electronic circuits on paper
June 29, 2011
University of Illinois engineers have developed a silver-inked rollerball pen capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood and other surfaces. After writing, the liquid in the ink dries to leave conductive silver pathways — in essence, paper-mounted wires. The ink maintains its conductivity through multiple bends and folds of the paper, enabling … more…
Singularity Summit 2011 to be held in New York City Oct. 15-16
June 28, 2011
Singularity Summit 2011 will be a TED-style two-day event on October 15–16 featuring futurist Ray Kurzweil and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings on IBM’s Watson, economist Tyler Cowen on the economic impacts of emerging technologies, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel on innovation and jump-starting the economy. Other speakers include neuroscientist Christof Koch, MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, … more…
Diabetes affects more than 300 million worldwide, but life-expectancy has increased
June 28, 2011
Researchers at Imperial College London and the Harvard School of Public Health have found that the number of adults worldwide with diabetes reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number in 1980. Seventy per cent of the rise was due to population growth and aging, with the other 30 per cent due to higher … more…
Brain rhythm associated with learning linked to running speed
June 28, 2011
Rhythms in the brain that are associated with learning become stronger as the body moves faster, neurophysicists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have found. The experiment was performed by measuring electrical signals from hundreds of mice neurons using microwires, the researchers said. Nearly a hundred gigabytes of data was collected every day. Analysis … more…
New software advances brain image research
June 28, 2011
A new software program that allows neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies has been developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, trimming weeks and even months from the research process. The new software can be programmed to comb scientific literature for published articles relevant to a particular topic, … more…
Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ shields objects from sound
June 28, 2011 Source Link: BBC News
Scientists at Duke University have developed a cloaking device using metamaterials that makes objects invisible to sound waves. The device uses stacked sheets of plastic with regular arrays of holes through them. The exact size and placement of the holes on each sheet, and the spacing between the sheets, has a predictable effect on incoming sound … more…
Pythagoras Solar turns windows into panels of energy
June 28, 2011
Pythagoras Solar, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, is working on creating “solar windows” that could generate power for office buildings and shield offices from sunlight, thus reducing air conditioning costs, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Thin horizontal rows of silicon cells embedded between dual panes of glass catch light from above. And through … more…
Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated
June 28, 2011
Physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Konstanz in Germany have developed a breakthrough in the use of diamond in quantum physics, marking an important step toward quantum computing. The physicists were able to coax the quantum information contained within a single electron in diamond to move into an adjacent … more…
Hippie days
June 27, 2011
Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each other from a distance? What were the implications? Many of these scientists, … more…
Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging
June 27, 2011
Researchers at MIT have discovered a gene called NDT80 that can double yeast lifespan when turned on late in life. The gene is activated when yeast cell rejuvenation occurs. When they turned on this gene in aged cells that were not reproducing, the cells lived twice as long as normal. The MIT team found that … more…
How to make a clock run for 10,000 years
June 27, 2011 Source Link: Wired
Billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has a long-term plan: to build a clock that runs for 10,000 years. The idea for the clock has been around since Danny Hillis first proposed it in WIRED magazine in 1995. Since then, Hillis and others have built prototypes and created a nonprofit, the Long Now Foundation, to work on the clock … more…
Asteroid to buzz Earth Monday, June 27th
June 26, 2011 Source Link: Sky & Telescope
Asteroid 2011 MD, a chunk of rock estimated to be 25 to 55 feet across, is estimated to pass less than 8,000 miles above the Earth’s surface around 4:30 p.m. EDT (20:30 UT) on Monday, June 27th. The actual event will be observable only from South Africa and parts of Antarctica, but the approach will … more…
Power grid change may disrupt clocks
June 26, 2011 Source Link: Associated Press
A yearlong experiment by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with the nation’s electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems, and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast. Officials say they want to try this to make the power supply more reliable, save … more…
Human-genome browser now available on iPad
June 26, 2011
Genome Wowser provides an iPad-enabled view of the human genome, according to iFreeware . The app provides a functional presentation of the popular University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser that is intuitive, highly portable, and allows a “Google Maps”-like navigation experience. Users can view genomic annotation tracks; zoom in, out, and across a … more…
Full-spectrum solar cells may reach 42 percent efficiency
June 26, 2011
University of Toronto engineering researchers have developed the first efficient tandem solar cell based on colloidal quantum dots (CQD). It may lead to inexpensive coatings that efficiently convert the sun’s rays to electricity. The device is a stack of two light-absorbing layers — one tuned to capture the sun’s visible rays, the other to harvest … more…
Hand-hacking lets you pluck strings like a musical pro
June 26, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist Tech
PossessedHand, being developed jointly by the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, electrically stimulates the muscles in the forearm that move your fingers. A belt worn around that part of the subject’s arm contains 28 electrode pads that flex the joints between the three bones of each finger and the two bones … more…
Mayo Clinic developing artificial pancreas to ease diabetes burden
June 24, 2011
Mayo Clinic endocrinologists are developing an artificial pancreas that will deliver insulin automatically and with an individualized precision never before possible. The “Closed Loop System” under development includes a blood sugar monitor, an automatic insulin pump, a set of activity monitors that attach to the body, and a central processing unit. In related research, they … more…
Volkswagen shows off self-driving autopilot technology for cars
June 24, 2011 Source Link: Motor Authority
Volkswagen has presented its “Temporary Auto Pilot” technology. Monitored by a driver, the technology can allow a car to drive semi-automatically at speeds of up to 80 mph on highways. It works using a combination of existing technology such as adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assist, rolling them all into one comprehensive function. In the … more…
Cerf: streaming network crunch could be eliminated
June 24, 2011 Source Link: Computerworld
While Internet carriers may fret about Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming media services saturating their bandwidth, Internet forefather Vint Cerf has a simple answer for this potential problem: increase bandwidth exponentially. With sufficient bandwidth, streaming video services of prerecorded content wouldn’t be necessary, explained Cerf, who is now a technology evangelist at Google. With sufficient … more…
Japanese pop star created digitally fools fans
June 24, 2011
Japan’s latest pop sensation, Aimi Eguchi — the newest member of the Japanese band AKB48 — is a virtual composite of six other band members. The fake pop star first appeared in an ad for Japanese candy, but also has an online profile and has been featured in a magazine photo shoot using faked pictures. … more…
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Are you ready for robots with sensitive skin?
June 30, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Robots have just taken another (slightly weird) step toward becoming our overlords. Technische Universität München (TUM) scientists are developing an artificial skin for robots that will provide tactile information to the robot to supplement information from cameras, infrared scanners, and gripping hands. The idea is to let the robot know when it touches an object … more…
The physics of Jackson Pollock
June 30, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Can you tell the difference between a painting by an elephant and Jackson Pollack? (Take this test before reading further.) A mathematician at Harvard University and a physicist-art historian at Boston College think they can. Pollock was an “intuitive master” of laws that govern the flow of liquids under gravity, they believe. The researchers examined the … more…
Ads for monkeys: sign of the end times?
June 28, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
This is not an Onion story. No, really. Turns out Laurie Santos gave a TED talk last year on “monkeynomics” — the realization that monkeys understood an abstract idea like currency. Unfortunately, two advertising executives happened to be in the audience, New Scientist reports today. The result: a monkey ad campaign (shown at the Cannes Lions … more…
‘Orca ears’ inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone
June 27, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Imagine a miniature microphone that responds to ocean sounds from 1 to 100kHz (a deep inaudible rumble to ultrasonic sounds) with a dynamic range of 160 dB (a whisper in a quiet library to the sound from 1 ton of TNT exploding 60 feet away) and operates at any depth. An amazing microphone that does … more…
Stealth mold genes take over human genome, jump to databases and chips!
June 27, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
“Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples,” Technology Review‘s The Physics ArXiv blog said on Thursday. “Now, the human genome itself has become contaminated. Bill Langdon at University College London and Matthew Arno at Kings College … more…
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Virolution
author Frank Ryan
Amazon | From an acclaimed scientific thinker and writer comes the most exciting advance in evolution since Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene — how the extraordinary role of viruses in evolution is revolutionizing biology and medicine. Combining Darwin, the double helix, the genome project, and viruses to explain the last great mystery of evolution, this book is the … more…
Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future — and Locked Us In
author Brian X. Chen
Amazon | Even Steve Jobs didn’t know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere “three revolutionary products” — an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became … more…
War of the Worldviews: Science Vs. Spirituality
author Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow
Amazon | Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious — but respectful — clash of worldviews that grew along with their friendship.
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“Singularity Summit SLC” This Weekend in Salt Lake City
Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:39 PM PDT
Coming up this June 4-5 in Salt Lake City! Register now in the lower right hand corner of the site.
The Summit will begin with Michael Vassar discussing the strange time-lag between technological invention and mainstream adoption. Deepa Kulkarni will share her story of the doctors who told her that her lost fingertip couldn’t be regained, and how she researched a known but little-used procedure for tissue regeneration. Jaan Tallinn, a founding engineer of Skype, will Skype in to speak on the lessons of his career. Dr. Zheng Cui will present his discovery of a white blood cell transfusion with a 100% success rate for cancer treatment in mice; and his collaborator Dr. Dipnarine Maharaj will talk about the clinical trial of this and other transfusion therapy at his Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Treatment Facility. After lunch, Ray Kurzweil will join us via telepresence to share his vision of the future of artificial intelligence and of mankind’s fusion with machines. Paypal Co-Founder and Founder’s Fund Partner Luke Nosek will discuss genomics investing and Halcyon Molecular’s vision of DNA sequencing. Khan Academy President Shantanu Sinha will explain how his nonprofit is using technology to revolutionize the education system. And finally Aubrey de Grey, the Chief Science Officer at the SENS Foundation, will conclude with his view of how technology can and should cure aging. We all hope to see you there soon!
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Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:39 PM PDT
Coming up this June 4-5 in Salt Lake City! Register now in the lower right hand corner of the site.
The Summit will begin with Michael Vassar discussing the strange time-lag between technological invention and mainstream adoption. Deepa Kulkarni will share her story of the doctors who told her that her lost fingertip couldn’t be regained, and how she researched a known but little-used procedure for tissue regeneration. Jaan Tallinn, a founding engineer of Skype, will Skype in to speak on the lessons of his career. Dr. Zheng Cui will present his discovery of a white blood cell transfusion with a 100% success rate for cancer treatment in mice; and his collaborator Dr. Dipnarine Maharaj will talk about the clinical trial of this and other transfusion therapy at his Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Treatment Facility. After lunch, Ray Kurzweil will join us via telepresence to share his vision of the future of artificial intelligence and of mankind’s fusion with machines. Paypal Co-Founder and Founder’s Fund Partner Luke Nosek will discuss genomics investing and Halcyon Molecular’s vision of DNA sequencing. Khan Academy President Shantanu Sinha will explain how his nonprofit is using technology to revolutionize the education system. And finally Aubrey de Grey, the Chief Science Officer at the SENS Foundation, will conclude with his view of how technology can and should cure aging. We all hope to see you there soon!
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Give to the Singularity Institute via Causes.com
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:20 PM PDT
We’ve updated our Donate page to allow giving via Causes.com, the world’s largest online activism platform.
The site is also one of the most popular applications on Facebook, with 90 million Facebook users. When you give via Causes.com, you can show your friends who you’re giving to. I just gave $50, and I only had to click one button to announce this donation on my Facebook wall.
You can also announce a ‘Birthday Wish’, which tells your Facebook friends that what you want for your birthday is for them to give to a specific charity. Causes.com also makes it easy to tell your friends about causes you support.
We’ve already raised over $11,000 through Causes.com. Click here to join the Singularity Institute’s Causes.com group!
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Singularity Summit 2011 in New York City to Explore Watson Victory in Jeopardy!
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:09 PM PDT
The press release for Singularity Summit 2011 is live!
Dates:
October 15-16, 2011
Location:
92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
You can register today here: http://www.singularitysummit.com/registration.
Current speakers are here: http://www.singularitysummit.com/program
New York, NY — This October 15-16th in New York City, a TED-style conference gathering innovators from science, industry, and the public will discuss IBM’s ‘Watson’ computer and other exciting developments in emerging technologies. Keynote speakers at Singularity Summit 2011 include Jeopardy!champion Ken Jennings and famed futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. After losing to an IBM computer in Jeopardy!, Jennings wrote, “Just as factory jobs were eliminated in the 20th century by new assembly-line robots, Brad and I were the first knowledge-industry workers put out of work by the new generation of ‘thinking’ machines. ‘Quiz show contestant’ may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.”
In February, Watson defeated two human champions in Jeopardy!, the game show famous for its mind-bending trivia questions. Surprising millions of TV viewers, Watson took down champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for the $1 million first prize. Facing defeat on the final show, competitor Ken Jennings jokingly wrote in parentheses on his last answer: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Besides Watson, the Singularity Summit 2011 will feature speakers on robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, futurism, and other cutting-edge technologies, and is the only conference to focus on the technological Singularity.
Responding to Watson’s victory, leading computer scientist Ray Kurzweil said, “Watson is a stunning example of the growing ability of computers to successfully invade this supposedly unique attribute of human intelligence.” In Kurzweil’s view, the combination of language understanding and pattern recognition that Watson displays would make its descendants “far superior to a human”. Kurzweil is known for predicting computers whose conversations will be indistinguishable from people by 2029.
Beyond artificial intelligence, the Singularity Summit will also focus on high-tech and where it is going. Economist Tyler Cowen will examine the economic impacts of emerging technologies. Cowen argued in his recent book The Great Stagnation that modern society is on a technological plateau where “a lot of our major innovations are springing up in sectors where a lot of work is done by machines, not by human beings.” Tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, who sits on the board of directors of Facebook, will share his thoughts on innovation and jumpstarting the economy.
Other speakers include MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, Allen Brain Institute chief scientist Christof Koch, co-founder of Skype Jaan Tallinn, robotics professors James McLurkin and Robin Murphy, Bionic Builders host Casey Pieretti, the MIT Media Lab’s Riley Crane, MIT polymath Alexander Wissner-Gross, filmmaker and television personality Jason Silva, and Singularity Institute artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Open conference registration is at http://www.singularitysummit.com/registration.
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:20 PM PDT
We’ve updated our Donate page to allow giving via Causes.com, the world’s largest online activism platform.
The site is also one of the most popular applications on Facebook, with 90 million Facebook users. When you give via Causes.com, you can show your friends who you’re giving to. I just gave $50, and I only had to click one button to announce this donation on my Facebook wall.
You can also announce a ‘Birthday Wish’, which tells your Facebook friends that what you want for your birthday is for them to give to a specific charity. Causes.com also makes it easy to tell your friends about causes you support.
We’ve already raised over $11,000 through Causes.com. Click here to join the Singularity Institute’s Causes.com group!
Causes.com is our recommended method for donating to the Singularity Institute because your donation is public, and you can help us become listed as one of the most successful charities on the site!
Singularity Summit 2011 in New York City to Explore Watson Victory in Jeopardy!
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:09 PM PDT
The press release for Singularity Summit 2011 is live!
Dates:
October 15-16, 2011
Location:
92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
You can register today here: http://www.singularitysummit.com/registration.
Current speakers are here: http://www.singularitysummit.com/program
New York, NY — This October 15-16th in New York City, a TED-style conference gathering innovators from science, industry, and the public will discuss IBM’s ‘Watson’ computer and other exciting developments in emerging technologies. Keynote speakers at Singularity Summit 2011 include Jeopardy!champion Ken Jennings and famed futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. After losing to an IBM computer in Jeopardy!, Jennings wrote, “Just as factory jobs were eliminated in the 20th century by new assembly-line robots, Brad and I were the first knowledge-industry workers put out of work by the new generation of ‘thinking’ machines. ‘Quiz show contestant’ may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.”
In February, Watson defeated two human champions in Jeopardy!, the game show famous for its mind-bending trivia questions. Surprising millions of TV viewers, Watson took down champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for the $1 million first prize. Facing defeat on the final show, competitor Ken Jennings jokingly wrote in parentheses on his last answer: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Besides Watson, the Singularity Summit 2011 will feature speakers on robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, futurism, and other cutting-edge technologies, and is the only conference to focus on the technological Singularity.
Responding to Watson’s victory, leading computer scientist Ray Kurzweil said, “Watson is a stunning example of the growing ability of computers to successfully invade this supposedly unique attribute of human intelligence.” In Kurzweil’s view, the combination of language understanding and pattern recognition that Watson displays would make its descendants “far superior to a human”. Kurzweil is known for predicting computers whose conversations will be indistinguishable from people by 2029.
Beyond artificial intelligence, the Singularity Summit will also focus on high-tech and where it is going. Economist Tyler Cowen will examine the economic impacts of emerging technologies. Cowen argued in his recent book The Great Stagnation that modern society is on a technological plateau where “a lot of our major innovations are springing up in sectors where a lot of work is done by machines, not by human beings.” Tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, who sits on the board of directors of Facebook, will share his thoughts on innovation and jumpstarting the economy.
Other speakers include MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, Allen Brain Institute chief scientist Christof Koch, co-founder of Skype Jaan Tallinn, robotics professors James McLurkin and Robin Murphy, Bionic Builders host Casey Pieretti, the MIT Media Lab’s Riley Crane, MIT polymath Alexander Wissner-Gross, filmmaker and television personality Jason Silva, and Singularity Institute artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Open conference registration is at http://www.singularitysummit.com/registration.
Announcing the $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge
Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:13 PM PDT
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors†, every donation to the Singularity Institute made now until August 31, 2011 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $125,000.
Donate now!
(Visit the challenge page to see a progress bar.)
Now is your chance to double your impact while supporting the Singularity Institute and helping us raise up to $250,000 to help fund our research program and stage the upcoming Singularity Summit… which you can register for now!
† $125,000 in backing for this challenge is being generously provided by Rob Zahra, Quixey, Clippy, Luke Nosek, Edwin Evans, Rick Schwall, Brian Cartmell, Mike Blume, Jeff Bone, Johan Edström, Zvi Mowshowitz, John Salvatier, Louie Helm, Kevin Fischer, Emil Gilliam, Rob and Oksana Brazell, Guy Srinivasan, John Chisholm, and John Ku.
2011 has been a huge year for Artificial Intelligence. With the IBM computer Watson defeating two top Jeopardy! champions in February, it’s clear that the field is making steady progress. Journalists like Torie Bosch of Slate have argued that “We need to move from robot-apocalypse jokes to serious discussions about the emerging technology.” We couldn’t agree more — in fact, the Singularity Institute has been thinking about how to create safe and ethical artificial intelligence since long before the Singularity landed on the front cover of TIME magazine.
The last 1.5 years were our biggest ever. Since the beginning of 2010, we have:
Held our annual Singularity Summit, in San Francisco. Speakers included Ray Kurzweil, James Randi, Irene Pepperberg, and many others.
Held the first Singularity Summit Australia and Singularity Summit Salt Lake City.
Held a wildly successful Rationality Minicamp.
Published seven research papers, including Yudkowsky’s much-awaited ‘Timeless Decision Theory‘.
Helped philosopher David Chalmers write his seminal paper ‘The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis‘, which has sparked broad discussion in academia, including an entire issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies and a book from Springer devoted to responses to Chalmers’ paper.
Launched the Research Associates program.
Brought MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark onto our advisory board, published our Singularity FAQ, and much more.
In the coming year, we plan to do the following:
Hold our annual Singularity Summit, in New York City this year.
Publish three chapters in the upcoming academic volume The Singularity Hypothesis, along with several other papers.
Improve organizational transparency by creating a simpler, easier-to-use website that includes Singularity Institute planning and policy documents.
Publish a document of open research problems related to Friendly AI, to clarify the research space and encourage other researchers to contribute to our mission.
Add additional skilled researchers to our Research Associates program.
Publish well-researched documents making the case for existential risk reduction as optimal philanthropy.
Diversify our funding sources by applying for targeted grants and advertising our affinity credit card program.
We appreciate your support for our high-impact work. As PayPal co-founder and Singularity Institute donor Peter Thiel said:
“I’m interested in facilitating a forum in which there can be… substantive research on how to bring about a world in which AI will be friendly to humans rather than hostile… [The Singularity Institute represents] a combination of very talented people with the right problem space [they’re] going after… [They’ve] done a phenomenal job… on a shoestring budget. From my perspective, the key question is always: What’s the amount of leverage you get as an investor? Where can a small amount make a big difference? This is a very leveraged kind of philanthropy.”
Donate now, and seize a better than usual chance to move our work forward. Credit card transactions are securely processed through Causes.com, Google Checkout, or PayPal. If you have questions about donating, please call Amy Willey at (586) 381-1801.
Support the Singularity Institute with Every Purchase
Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:14 AM PDT
Good news! Capital One is now offering co-branded Singularity Institute credit cards with a cash-back rewards program that automatically donates money to Singularity Institute. Now you can support Singularity Institute with every purchase you make!
$50 donation after your first purchase
2% of your gas and grocery purchases
1% of all other purchases
Up to 10% of purchases at select merchants
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Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:13 PM PDT
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors†, every donation to the Singularity Institute made now until August 31, 2011 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $125,000.
Donate now!
(Visit the challenge page to see a progress bar.)
Now is your chance to double your impact while supporting the Singularity Institute and helping us raise up to $250,000 to help fund our research program and stage the upcoming Singularity Summit… which you can register for now!
† $125,000 in backing for this challenge is being generously provided by Rob Zahra, Quixey, Clippy, Luke Nosek, Edwin Evans, Rick Schwall, Brian Cartmell, Mike Blume, Jeff Bone, Johan Edström, Zvi Mowshowitz, John Salvatier, Louie Helm, Kevin Fischer, Emil Gilliam, Rob and Oksana Brazell, Guy Srinivasan, John Chisholm, and John Ku.
2011 has been a huge year for Artificial Intelligence. With the IBM computer Watson defeating two top Jeopardy! champions in February, it’s clear that the field is making steady progress. Journalists like Torie Bosch of Slate have argued that “We need to move from robot-apocalypse jokes to serious discussions about the emerging technology.” We couldn’t agree more — in fact, the Singularity Institute has been thinking about how to create safe and ethical artificial intelligence since long before the Singularity landed on the front cover of TIME magazine.
The last 1.5 years were our biggest ever. Since the beginning of 2010, we have:
Held our annual Singularity Summit, in San Francisco. Speakers included Ray Kurzweil, James Randi, Irene Pepperberg, and many others.
Held the first Singularity Summit Australia and Singularity Summit Salt Lake City.
Held a wildly successful Rationality Minicamp.
Published seven research papers, including Yudkowsky’s much-awaited ‘Timeless Decision Theory‘.
Helped philosopher David Chalmers write his seminal paper ‘The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis‘, which has sparked broad discussion in academia, including an entire issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies and a book from Springer devoted to responses to Chalmers’ paper.
Launched the Research Associates program.
Brought MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark onto our advisory board, published our Singularity FAQ, and much more.
In the coming year, we plan to do the following:
Hold our annual Singularity Summit, in New York City this year.
Publish three chapters in the upcoming academic volume The Singularity Hypothesis, along with several other papers.
Improve organizational transparency by creating a simpler, easier-to-use website that includes Singularity Institute planning and policy documents.
Publish a document of open research problems related to Friendly AI, to clarify the research space and encourage other researchers to contribute to our mission.
Add additional skilled researchers to our Research Associates program.
Publish well-researched documents making the case for existential risk reduction as optimal philanthropy.
Diversify our funding sources by applying for targeted grants and advertising our affinity credit card program.
We appreciate your support for our high-impact work. As PayPal co-founder and Singularity Institute donor Peter Thiel said:
“I’m interested in facilitating a forum in which there can be… substantive research on how to bring about a world in which AI will be friendly to humans rather than hostile… [The Singularity Institute represents] a combination of very talented people with the right problem space [they’re] going after… [They’ve] done a phenomenal job… on a shoestring budget. From my perspective, the key question is always: What’s the amount of leverage you get as an investor? Where can a small amount make a big difference? This is a very leveraged kind of philanthropy.”
Donate now, and seize a better than usual chance to move our work forward. Credit card transactions are securely processed through Causes.com, Google Checkout, or PayPal. If you have questions about donating, please call Amy Willey at (586) 381-1801.
Support the Singularity Institute with Every Purchase
Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:14 AM PDT
Good news! Capital One is now offering co-branded Singularity Institute credit cards with a cash-back rewards program that automatically donates money to Singularity Institute. Now you can support Singularity Institute with every purchase you make!
$50 donation after your first purchase
2% of your gas and grocery purchases
1% of all other purchases
Up to 10% of purchases at select merchants
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Someday your brain could brake for you
July 29, 2011 Source Link: Technology Review
Electrical signals from the brain are seen 130 milliseconds before drivers actually hit the brakes, Technical University of Berlin researchers have found, as reported in the Journal of Neural Engineering. Seated facing three monitors in a driving simulator called The Open Source Racing Car Simulator, each subject was told to drive about 18 meters behind a … more…
New NASA data challenges global warming alarmism
July 29, 2011
NASA satellite data show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. Data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to … more…
Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries
July 29, 2011
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries. Electrochemical measurements showed very high reversible capacity and excellent cycling performance at a current density as high as 5 amperes per gram. Graphene is a single-atom-thick, “chicken-wire” lattice … more…
New tools accelerate mapping the brain’s connectome
July 29, 2011
New software tools to reconstruct neural wiring diagrams quickly and accurately have been developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research to allow neuroscientists to understand the structure of the brain’s circuits — the connectome. The researchers created two new computer programs, KNOSSOS (named for Crete’s legendary palace, renowned for its elaborate … more…
World’s first ‘printed’ aircraft
July 28, 2011
Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first “printed” aircraft, which could revolutionize the economics of aircraft design, the engineers say. The SULSA (Southampton University Laser Sintered Aircraft) plane is an unmanned air vehicle (UAV), with its entire structure printed. This includes wings, integral control surfaces, and access hatches. It … more…
Building a Subversive Grassroots Network
July 28, 2011 Source Link: IEEE Spectrum
Shutting off digital communication is a new addition to the dictator’s tool kit. Fortunately, in a world full of hackers, technology is hard to control, even for autocrats. Hackers are creating a way for citizens to build their own communication networks from the ground up, using computers, cellphones, and wireless routers. Such networks — called … more…
Bionic microrobot walks on water — perfect spybot, say Chinese scientists
July 28, 2011
A new aquatic microrobot that mimics the water-walking abilities of the water strider has been developed by researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. The robot is about the size of a quarter, with ten water-repellent, wire legs and two movable, oar-like legs propelled by two miniature motors. Because the weight of the … more…
How the brain’s ‘workspace’ allows multitasking
July 28, 2011
Cognitive neuroscientist Robert H. Logie at the University of Edinburgh has found that a “workspace” in the brain allows us to do something while other functions operate in the background or to apply ourselves to a single task involving more than one function, contrary to the “controlled attention” model. “We have a range of different … more…
Piezotronics produces electrical signals from biomechanical actions
July 28, 2011
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which the write-read access of memory cells is controlled by electromechanical modulation. Operating on flexible substrates, arrays of these devices could provide a new way to interface the mechanical actions of the biological world to conventional electronic circuitry. These … more…
How aging affects working-memory neuron firing rate and how to improve it
July 28, 2011
The neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Yale University researchers have found. “With normal aging, there are impairments in the working memory functions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC),” says Amy F. T. Arnsten, professor or neurobiology at Yale University Medical … more…
Nano-sized drug transporter targets cancer-causing oncogenes more effectively
July 28, 2011
Seeking to improve cancer treatments, Ohio State University scientists have created a tiny drug transporter (nanocarrier) design that maximizes its ability to silence damaging genes by more effectively penetrating a target cell. The researchers used small interfering RNA (siRNA), an important gene-regulation mechanism that has the potential to protect cells against invaders, such as viruses, … more…
The world’s deadliest distinction: why aren’t the oldest living people getting any older?
July 27, 2011 Source Link: Slate
Raising the upper bounds of the human lifespan is turning out to be trickier than increasing the average person’s life expectancy. In the past few years, the global count of supercentenarians — people 110 and older — has leveled off at about 80. And the maximum age hasn’t budged. Just seven people whose ages could be … more…
Can we live forever? Kaku, Fahey, de Grey, Tipler on Science Channel
July 27, 2011
“Can We Live Forever?” — Through the Worm Hole Season 2, narrated by Morgan Freeman — will air on Science Channel starting Wednesday, July 27, 10 p.m. Michio Kaku, Thermodynamics; Greg Fahey, Cryogenic Preservation;Aubrey de Grey, Forever Young; Frank Tipler, The Omega Point. “This popularization is an excellent contribution to convincing the newly arrived cognoscenti … more…
One-way sound transmission system allows for sound control, energy-harvesting
July 27, 2011
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created the first tunable acoustic diode — a device that allows acoustic information to travel only in one direction, at controllable frequencies. The researchers used experiments, simulations, and analytical predictions to demonstrate one-way transmission of sound in an audible frequency range for the first time. This … more…
Artificial nose created with carbon-nanotube transistor and DNA
July 27, 2011
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a chemical sensor that combines a carbon nanotube transistor with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors. The sensor comprises a single-walled carbon nanotube field effect transistor (swCN-FET) with a nanoscale layer of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) adsorbed to the tube’s outerwall. The … more…
Brain ‘hears’ voices when reading direct speech
July 27, 2011
When reading direct quotations, the brain “hears” the voice of the speaker, researchers at the University of Glasgow have found, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This shows that readers are likely to engage in perceptual simulations, or spontaneous imagery, of the reported speaker’s voice when reading direct speech, the researchers said. Ref.: Bo Yao, … more…
Sharper, deeper, faster optical imaging of live biological samples
July 26, 2011
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a novel approach that could redefine optical imaging of live biological samples, simultaneously achieving high resolution, high penetration depth (for seeing deep inside 3D samples), and high imaging speed. The research team employed an unconventional imaging method called light-sheet microscopy: a thin, flat sheet of … more…
Minority rules: scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
July 26, 2011
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists developed computer models of various types of social networks. One of the networks had each person connect to every other person in … more…
Stelarc: Pushing the body’s boundaries
July 26, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist CultureLab
Stelarc is a performance artist who explores the capabilities of the human body. “All of my projects explore alternate anatomical architectures — a body with a third hand, or an extra ear, or an artwork inside a bodily space instead of a public space,” he says. “We are biological bodies, but we are often accelerated, … more…
Another Earth
July 26, 2011
If you could meet your other you, what would you say? That’s the core question in Another Earth, now playing. Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is … more…
Touchscreen keyboard morphs to fit your typing style
July 26, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist One Per Cent
IBM recently filed a U.S. patent application for a morphing touchscreen keyboard interface that would automatically resize, reshape, and reposition keys based on a user’s typing style. IBM proposes a system that would alter the size, shape, and location of keys to suit an individual’s physical anatomy, such as finger size, length, and range of … more…
Wolfram launches Computable Document Format (CDF) user-created interactive documents
July 25, 2011
Interactive demonstration of insulin molecule (credit: Wolfram Research) Wolfram Research has announced the Computable Document Format (CDF), a new standard to put interactivity at the core of everyday documents and empower readers with live content they can drive. CDF is a computation-powered knowledge container. Its interactivity isn’t just pre-generated, but live. And for the first time, … more…
Using glucose meters to measure other target molecules in blood, serum, water, or food
July 25, 2011
Glucose meters can be used as simple, portable, inexpensive meters for a number of target molecules in blood, serum, water or food, researchers at the University of Illinois have found. To use glucose meters to detect a target other than glucose, the researchers coupled them with a class of molecular sensors called functional DNA sensors. Functional DNA … more…
New graphene discovery brings practical devices closer
July 25, 2011
Interactions between electrons significantly enhance the already high velocity of electrons in graphene, researchers at The University of Manchester have found. They anticipate their findings will accelerate building graphene-based devices such as touchscreens, ultrafast transistors, and photodetectors. The researchers used extremely high-quality graphene devices, prepared by suspending sheets of graphene in a vacuum. This eliminated … more…
Oversight of animals containing human material in biomedical research
July 25, 2011
Researchers at the British Academy of Medical Sciences have examined the use of animals containing human material (ACHM) in biomedical research and identified areas of sensitivity including cognition, reproduction, or creating visual characteristics perceived as uniquely human. They have called for additional oversight to ensure innovative science can flourish within clearly defined ethical boundaries with public support. The working group … more…
Researchers identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA
July 25, 2011
Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine have identified the seventh and eighth bases of DNA. For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units — adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine. In recent history, scientists have expanded that list from four to six. Much is known about the “fifth base,” … more…
Tattoo tracks sodium and glucose via an iPhone
July 25, 2011 Source Link: Technology Review
Northeastern University researchers have developed a nanosensor “tattoo” with a modified iPhone that allows users to closely monitor sodium levels (to prevent dehydration), and glucose levels. The team injected a solution containing nanoparticles into the skin. This left no visible mark, but the nanoparticles fluoresced when exposed to a target molecule, such as sodium or glucose. A … more…
Robert Ettinger 1918 – 2011
July 24, 2011
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger, a pioneer transhumanist known as the “the father of cryonics,” was cryopreserved Saturday by the organization he founded, the Cryonics Institute. His 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.and his 1972 book Man into Superman inspired many of us. “Robert Ettinger deanimated [Saturday] at around 4 p.m. Eastern Time,” said Ben Best, … more…
Robots use Kinect to understand our world
July 22, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist Tech
Researchers at Cornell University are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room. Microsoft’s Kinect sensor perceives real-world 3-D scenes by combining two visible-light cameras with depth information from an infrared sensor. The researchers’ algorithm learns to recognize particular objects by studying images … more…
New BLOG POSTS
Molecular cut and paste
July 28, 2011 by William Mcewan
A combination of cheap DNA synthesis, freely accessible databases, and our ever-expanding knowledge of protein science is conspiring to permit a revolution in creating powerful molecular tools, suggests William McEwan, Ph.D., a virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K., in this excerpt from the new book Future Science: Essays From The Cutting Edge, edited … more…
New books
Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge
author Max Brockman
Amazon | Editor Max Brockman introduces the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young scientists in this fascinating and exciting collection of writings that describe the very boundaries of our knowledge. Future Science features nineteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their innovative work and ideas to a general audience for … more…
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Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries
New tools accelerate mapping the brain’s connectome
World’s first ‘printed’ aircraft
Building a Subversive Grassroots Network
Bionic microrobot walks on water — perfect spybot, say Chinese scientists
How the brain’s ‘workspace’ allows multitasking
Piezotronics produces electrical signals from biomechanical actions
How aging affects working-memory neuron firing rate and how to improve it
Molecular cut and paste
Nano-sized drug transporter targets cancer-causing oncogenes more effectively
The world’s deadliest distinction: why aren’t the oldest living people getting any older?
Can we live forever? Kaku, Fahey, de Grey, Tipler on Science Channel
One-way sound transmission system allows for sound control, energy-harvesting
Artificial nose created with carbon-nanotube transistor and DNA
Brain ‘hears’ voices when reading direct speech
Sharper, deeper, faster optical imaging of live biological samples
Minority rules: scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
Stelarc: Pushing the body’s boundaries
Another Earth
Touchscreen keyboard morphs to fit your typing style
Wolfram launches Computable Document Format (CDF) user-created interactive documents
Using glucose meters to measure other target molecules in blood, serum, water, or food
New graphene discovery brings practical devices closer
Oversight of animals containing human material in biomedical research
Researchers identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA
Tattoo tracks sodium and glucose via an iPhone
Robert Ettinger 1918 – 2011
Robots use Kinect to understand our world
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Someday your brain could brake for you
July 29, 2011 Source Link: Technology Review
Electrical signals from the brain are seen 130 milliseconds before drivers actually hit the brakes, Technical University of Berlin researchers have found, as reported in the Journal of Neural Engineering. Seated facing three monitors in a driving simulator called The Open Source Racing Car Simulator, each subject was told to drive about 18 meters behind a … more…
New NASA data challenges global warming alarmism
July 29, 2011
NASA satellite data show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. Data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to … more…
Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries
July 29, 2011
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries. Electrochemical measurements showed very high reversible capacity and excellent cycling performance at a current density as high as 5 amperes per gram. Graphene is a single-atom-thick, “chicken-wire” lattice … more…
New tools accelerate mapping the brain’s connectome
July 29, 2011
New software tools to reconstruct neural wiring diagrams quickly and accurately have been developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research to allow neuroscientists to understand the structure of the brain’s circuits — the connectome. The researchers created two new computer programs, KNOSSOS (named for Crete’s legendary palace, renowned for its elaborate … more…
World’s first ‘printed’ aircraft
July 28, 2011
Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first “printed” aircraft, which could revolutionize the economics of aircraft design, the engineers say. The SULSA (Southampton University Laser Sintered Aircraft) plane is an unmanned air vehicle (UAV), with its entire structure printed. This includes wings, integral control surfaces, and access hatches. It … more…
Building a Subversive Grassroots Network
July 28, 2011 Source Link: IEEE Spectrum
Shutting off digital communication is a new addition to the dictator’s tool kit. Fortunately, in a world full of hackers, technology is hard to control, even for autocrats. Hackers are creating a way for citizens to build their own communication networks from the ground up, using computers, cellphones, and wireless routers. Such networks — called … more…
Bionic microrobot walks on water — perfect spybot, say Chinese scientists
July 28, 2011
A new aquatic microrobot that mimics the water-walking abilities of the water strider has been developed by researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. The robot is about the size of a quarter, with ten water-repellent, wire legs and two movable, oar-like legs propelled by two miniature motors. Because the weight of the … more…
How the brain’s ‘workspace’ allows multitasking
July 28, 2011
Cognitive neuroscientist Robert H. Logie at the University of Edinburgh has found that a “workspace” in the brain allows us to do something while other functions operate in the background or to apply ourselves to a single task involving more than one function, contrary to the “controlled attention” model. “We have a range of different … more…
Piezotronics produces electrical signals from biomechanical actions
July 28, 2011
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which the write-read access of memory cells is controlled by electromechanical modulation. Operating on flexible substrates, arrays of these devices could provide a new way to interface the mechanical actions of the biological world to conventional electronic circuitry. These … more…
How aging affects working-memory neuron firing rate and how to improve it
July 28, 2011
The neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Yale University researchers have found. “With normal aging, there are impairments in the working memory functions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC),” says Amy F. T. Arnsten, professor or neurobiology at Yale University Medical … more…
Nano-sized drug transporter targets cancer-causing oncogenes more effectively
July 28, 2011
Seeking to improve cancer treatments, Ohio State University scientists have created a tiny drug transporter (nanocarrier) design that maximizes its ability to silence damaging genes by more effectively penetrating a target cell. The researchers used small interfering RNA (siRNA), an important gene-regulation mechanism that has the potential to protect cells against invaders, such as viruses, … more…
The world’s deadliest distinction: why aren’t the oldest living people getting any older?
July 27, 2011 Source Link: Slate
Raising the upper bounds of the human lifespan is turning out to be trickier than increasing the average person’s life expectancy. In the past few years, the global count of supercentenarians — people 110 and older — has leveled off at about 80. And the maximum age hasn’t budged. Just seven people whose ages could be … more…
Can we live forever? Kaku, Fahey, de Grey, Tipler on Science Channel
July 27, 2011
“Can We Live Forever?” — Through the Worm Hole Season 2, narrated by Morgan Freeman — will air on Science Channel starting Wednesday, July 27, 10 p.m. Michio Kaku, Thermodynamics; Greg Fahey, Cryogenic Preservation;Aubrey de Grey, Forever Young; Frank Tipler, The Omega Point. “This popularization is an excellent contribution to convincing the newly arrived cognoscenti … more…
One-way sound transmission system allows for sound control, energy-harvesting
July 27, 2011
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created the first tunable acoustic diode — a device that allows acoustic information to travel only in one direction, at controllable frequencies. The researchers used experiments, simulations, and analytical predictions to demonstrate one-way transmission of sound in an audible frequency range for the first time. This … more…
Artificial nose created with carbon-nanotube transistor and DNA
July 27, 2011
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a chemical sensor that combines a carbon nanotube transistor with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors. The sensor comprises a single-walled carbon nanotube field effect transistor (swCN-FET) with a nanoscale layer of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) adsorbed to the tube’s outerwall. The … more…
Brain ‘hears’ voices when reading direct speech
July 27, 2011
When reading direct quotations, the brain “hears” the voice of the speaker, researchers at the University of Glasgow have found, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This shows that readers are likely to engage in perceptual simulations, or spontaneous imagery, of the reported speaker’s voice when reading direct speech, the researchers said. Ref.: Bo Yao, … more…
Sharper, deeper, faster optical imaging of live biological samples
July 26, 2011
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a novel approach that could redefine optical imaging of live biological samples, simultaneously achieving high resolution, high penetration depth (for seeing deep inside 3D samples), and high imaging speed. The research team employed an unconventional imaging method called light-sheet microscopy: a thin, flat sheet of … more…
Minority rules: scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
July 26, 2011
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists developed computer models of various types of social networks. One of the networks had each person connect to every other person in … more…
Stelarc: Pushing the body’s boundaries
July 26, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist CultureLab
Stelarc is a performance artist who explores the capabilities of the human body. “All of my projects explore alternate anatomical architectures — a body with a third hand, or an extra ear, or an artwork inside a bodily space instead of a public space,” he says. “We are biological bodies, but we are often accelerated, … more…
Another Earth
July 26, 2011
If you could meet your other you, what would you say? That’s the core question in Another Earth, now playing. Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is … more…
Touchscreen keyboard morphs to fit your typing style
July 26, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist One Per Cent
IBM recently filed a U.S. patent application for a morphing touchscreen keyboard interface that would automatically resize, reshape, and reposition keys based on a user’s typing style. IBM proposes a system that would alter the size, shape, and location of keys to suit an individual’s physical anatomy, such as finger size, length, and range of … more…
Wolfram launches Computable Document Format (CDF) user-created interactive documents
July 25, 2011
Interactive demonstration of insulin molecule (credit: Wolfram Research) Wolfram Research has announced the Computable Document Format (CDF), a new standard to put interactivity at the core of everyday documents and empower readers with live content they can drive. CDF is a computation-powered knowledge container. Its interactivity isn’t just pre-generated, but live. And for the first time, … more…
Using glucose meters to measure other target molecules in blood, serum, water, or food
July 25, 2011
Glucose meters can be used as simple, portable, inexpensive meters for a number of target molecules in blood, serum, water or food, researchers at the University of Illinois have found. To use glucose meters to detect a target other than glucose, the researchers coupled them with a class of molecular sensors called functional DNA sensors. Functional DNA … more…
New graphene discovery brings practical devices closer
July 25, 2011
Interactions between electrons significantly enhance the already high velocity of electrons in graphene, researchers at The University of Manchester have found. They anticipate their findings will accelerate building graphene-based devices such as touchscreens, ultrafast transistors, and photodetectors. The researchers used extremely high-quality graphene devices, prepared by suspending sheets of graphene in a vacuum. This eliminated … more…
Oversight of animals containing human material in biomedical research
July 25, 2011
Researchers at the British Academy of Medical Sciences have examined the use of animals containing human material (ACHM) in biomedical research and identified areas of sensitivity including cognition, reproduction, or creating visual characteristics perceived as uniquely human. They have called for additional oversight to ensure innovative science can flourish within clearly defined ethical boundaries with public support. The working group … more…
Researchers identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA
July 25, 2011
Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine have identified the seventh and eighth bases of DNA. For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units — adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine. In recent history, scientists have expanded that list from four to six. Much is known about the “fifth base,” … more…
Tattoo tracks sodium and glucose via an iPhone
July 25, 2011 Source Link: Technology Review
Northeastern University researchers have developed a nanosensor “tattoo” with a modified iPhone that allows users to closely monitor sodium levels (to prevent dehydration), and glucose levels. The team injected a solution containing nanoparticles into the skin. This left no visible mark, but the nanoparticles fluoresced when exposed to a target molecule, such as sodium or glucose. A … more…
Robert Ettinger 1918 – 2011
July 24, 2011
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger, a pioneer transhumanist known as the “the father of cryonics,” was cryopreserved Saturday by the organization he founded, the Cryonics Institute. His 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.and his 1972 book Man into Superman inspired many of us. “Robert Ettinger deanimated [Saturday] at around 4 p.m. Eastern Time,” said Ben Best, … more…
Robots use Kinect to understand our world
July 22, 2011 Source Link: New Scientist Tech
Researchers at Cornell University are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room. Microsoft’s Kinect sensor perceives real-world 3-D scenes by combining two visible-light cameras with depth information from an infrared sensor. The researchers’ algorithm learns to recognize particular objects by studying images … more…
New BLOG POSTS
Molecular cut and paste
July 28, 2011 by William Mcewan
A combination of cheap DNA synthesis, freely accessible databases, and our ever-expanding knowledge of protein science is conspiring to permit a revolution in creating powerful molecular tools, suggests William McEwan, Ph.D., a virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K., in this excerpt from the new book Future Science: Essays From The Cutting Edge, edited … more…
New books
Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge
author Max Brockman
Amazon | Editor Max Brockman introduces the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young scientists in this fascinating and exciting collection of writings that describe the very boundaries of our knowledge. Future Science features nineteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their innovative work and ideas to a general audience for … more…
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