* "A new bio-ink for 3D printing with stem cells; Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed a new kind of bio-ink, which could eventually allow the production of complex tissues for surgical implants" (2016-06-23, bristol.ac.uk) [archive.is/v4gkp], illustration caption: An artist’s impression of bioprinting in action. It’s a rapidly emerging technique for the building of living 3D tissue constructs.
* "3D printing produces cartilage from strands of bioink" (2016-06-27, news.psu.edu) [archive.is/dwJUX]
Naysayers say...
* "The 3-D printing bubble may have burst" (2016-06-13, newsweek.com) [archive.is/Dp96N]
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* "Maverick scientist thinks he has discovered a magnetic sixth sense in humans" (2016-06-23, sciencemag.org) [archive.is/vW7OO], photo caption: Joe Kirschvink, sporting an EEG sensor cap, was the first subject in his magnetic-sensing tests.
* "Evidence of ‘magnetic’ sixth sense in humans, scientist claims" (2016-06-27, rt.com) [archive.is/XOjUG]
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* "Downloadable personalities will make us immortal, according to expert" (2016-06-21, rt.com) [archive.is/0DtTe]
* "Scientist says he found definitive proof that God exists; One of the most respected scientists of today says he has found evidence of the action of a force 'that governs everything' " (ageac.org) [archive.is/7ekg3], attached video [https://youtu.be/jremlZvNDuk]: The theoretical physicist Michio Kaku claims to have developed a theory that might point to the existence of God. The information has created a great stir in the scientific community because Kaku is considered one of the most important scientists of our times, one of the creators and developers of the revolutionary String Theory which is highly respected throughout the world.
To to come to his conclusions, the physicist made use of what he calls “primitive semi – radius tachyons “.
Tachyons are theoretical particles capable to “unstick ” the Universe matter or vacuum space between matter particles, leaving everything free from the influences of the surrounding universe.
After conducting the tests, Kaku came to the conclusion that we live in a “Matrix”.
“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence”, he affirmed. “Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore.”
“To me it is clear that we exists in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”
* "Rolls-Royce self-driving luxury car is a lavish stagecoach for the future rich" (2016-06-16, rt.com) [archive.is/tfqyH]
* " ‘Don’t kill it!’: Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of ‘love for freedom’ " (2016-06-23, rt.com) [archive.is/rTKva], attached videos [https://youtu.be/XjDI4eLZ274] [is.gd/pfllDm]
* "Intelligent robot that 'remembers and learns' could be scrapped after escaping a lab for a second time; The Promobot IR77 has been fitted with artificial intelligence meaning that it learns from its experiences and surroundings and can remember everybody it meets" (2016-06-22, mirror.co.uk) [archive.is/IIGsL], photo caption: Developers of a robot that made headlines when it ran away from a high-tech lab say they are now considering scrapping it after it ran away a second time.
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* "Scientists have discovered a new state of matter, called 'Jahn-Teller metals'; And it could be the key to understanding one of the biggest mysteries in physics today - high-temperature superconductors" (2016-06-28, geologyin.com) [archive.is/B4dPy]
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* "Google's Larry Page invests $100 million to develop flying cars" (2016-06-10, rt.com) [archive.is/AsyXM]
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* "Scientists Turn Bacteria Into Living Hard Drives; Living organisms can store lines of code and pass them down to their progeny" (2016-06-09, popularmechanics.com) [archive.is/6OTDS]
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* "Pavements of Crystal" (1902-01, Our Day newsmagazine, Vol. 21, N. 1, pg. 28) (.pdf) [is.gd/PDmXJ0]:
You would scarcely expect to read of streets paved with crystal in any other than a fairy book, yet a new paving material, called ceramo crystal, which is of great strength and durability, has been invented by M. Garchey, the well-known scientist, and preparations are now being made to use it on some of the main streets in several European cities, according to the London Express. Ceramo crystal is mainly composed of pounded glass, which has simultaneously been submitted to a considerable pressure and to a very high temperature.
Its hardness is described as perfectly astonishing by those who have seen it tested, and it has a resisting power of 2,718 pounds to 4,828 hounds to every hundredth part of a square yard. Moreover, neither cold nor hot weather has any influence on it. A weight of 8,400 pounds was recently allowed to fall on a flagstone of this material, yet it did not make the slightest impression on it, and not until it had fallen twenty-two times from a height of three feet did a crack appear in the crystal.
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* "Cures by rays of light: Electricity applied to the treatment of dread diseases" (1902-01, Our Day newsmagazine, Vol. 21, N. 1, pg. 7) (.pdf) [is.gd/PDmXJ0]:
Photo caption: Gun-Mortar-like instrument whose rays cure rheumatism
Photo caption: The Finsen Ray machine as improved by Dr. Hopkins
No department of human knowledge has undergone such rapid change within the past twenty-five years as that relating to the medical profession. The adaptation of electricity as a helpmeet and as a direct curative agency has transformed medical science and made obsolete whole volumes written by the ablest doctors of a generation ago.The value of light and clear atmosphere for the cure of certain diseases has long been recognized, but it remained for the skillful combination of doctor and electrician to make it possible to produce that light in such a condensed form without heat as to effect an immediate change of tissue substance. With different rays and combinations of rays it is sought to strike at the very root of disease, destroy the deadly germs that infect the blood and correct the abnormal cellular growths that give rise to many of the most hideous and malignant of human ills. For a long time the results of such treatment were looked on with doubt, but now the experiments in the laboratory of Prof. Finsen, of Copenhagen, Denmark; of Dr. Andrew Clark, of the Middlesex Hospital, England; of Dr. Hopkins, of Brooklyn; of Dr. Williams, of Boston; and in hospitals in New York, St. Louis and Chicago, seem to show that the two greatest scourges of the present age, cancer and consumption, can be eradicated by the simple action of intense light, while other minor diseases succumb to it.
To Prof. Finsen belongs the credit of photo-therapy. Experiments satisfied him that certain germs could not live in sunlight. He then set about devising a light of great power which could be directed upon the human flesh without harm or pain. The problem was to eliminate the great heat which accompanies powerful rays of light. After years of labor he devised a tube containing a quartz crystal lens, which decomposes an electric light of great diverting the heat rays to a jacket of cold water, and directing the heatless, actinic rays, blue, ultra-violet and violet, down through the tube upon the subject. This apparatus has been mechanically improved by Dr. Hopkins so that, by means of a hanging bracket, the ray may be readily directed upon any part of the body of the patient, stretched on a cot beneath it. The operating room of a photo-therapeutic laboratory is strangely unlike any other operating room in its simplicity. There is the ray-apparatus and the cot for the patient; that is all. Besides the operator, one nurse is in attendance.
Picture to yourself a huge hanging basket of ornamental iron, swung from the ceiling and incongruously sprouting on one side into a length of shiny brass telescope. This is the apparatus by which it is proposed to conquer the most dreadful of human maladies, cancer. Inside the three-foot circle of the black iron is an electric light carbon so arranged that when the electric current is turned on, the light glows through the telescope tube. The current strength is eighty amperes. and the light produced is so dazzling that the eye cannot bear it; and the attending surgeon must go hooded like a falcon.
Against the wall its 22,000 candle power shows like the brightest of sunlight. This radiance, poured down through the tube, would quickly roast the flesh upon which it falls, were not the heat rays diverted by the quartz lens. This lens is the difficult part of the instrument to obtain. Nothing serves the purpose so well as the quartz, but a piece of quartz from which a two and-three-quarter-inch lens can be cut, flawless and perfect, is rare and expensive. One operator in this country applied to a number of optical firms without success, and finally went to Tiffany & Co., who placed a ton of quartz at his disposal. Out of this, the largest perfect crystal he could get would cut into a lens a little less than two inches. He had finally to send to Copenhagen.
Now for the action of this merciful surgery of light. Suppose the patient to be suffering from lupus, that cancer which destroys the face, obliterating as dreadfully as leprosy itself every appearance of humanity. He is laid upon a cot under the apparatus. The tube is drawn down until it stops within an inch of the ulcerated surface. There is a sizzling sound as the operator turns on the current; the sun-bright radiance glitters on the wall and pours down through the quartz lens upon the gnawing cancer, and invisibly, the miracle is working. For an hour the patient must lie there. The light covers a spot about an inch in diameter. When the hour is up that spot has paled a little from the angry red around it. Next day another spot is treated; on the next still another.
The treatment is daily; could be under gone half a dozen times a day if there were time, for the subject feels no sensation whatever. There is no physical or nervous strain. Presently a strange thing is seen to have happened. About the edge, where the sore has been most malignant, sound scar tissue begins to form. The cancer is being restricted and contracted. Now and again it makes a rally, pressing forward its angry sigmals, only to be beaten back by the de stroying and healing ray. The end of the battle is always the same. The lupus disappears and in its place is sound scar tissue.
Not infrequently skin-grafting is resorted to to restore that part of the face, provided no organs have been destroyed, to its original appearance. In the malignant cancers—sarcoma of the breast and others, the roots of which lie deep—the Finsen ray has done work quite as wonderful. It works slower in these cases than in lupus, where the disease is on the surface, for the rays have little penetrating power; nevertheless, there are complete cures to its credit in cases beyond hope of eradication by the knife. Before there is any apparent change in the condition, the offensive odor from the sore ceases, and the disappearance of pain soon follows. One recent case of malignant sarcoma of the breast was discharged from the laboratory in Brooklyn as cured, several months ago, where the disease was arrested after it had almost completely eaten away one breast. There has been since no sign of its return. In another case sarcoma of the tongue—“smoker's cancer”—was cured. There are so many instances where lupus, the surface facial cancer, has been totally wiped out that they are hardly regarded as being worthy of a place on the records.
By what process does the ray achieve such results? No body knows. If physicians knew this they would be near to the greatest medical discovery in history. All they can tell is that the abnormal cellular processes which produce cancer are in some mysterious manner corrected by the action of the light; the process is checked and the sore healed. When they have found out what cancer is, they may be able to determine why the Finsen ray acts upon it as it does. At present, they must be content with the knowledge that a simple ray of light has given results more wonderful than all the medicines; more radical than the knife.
It is by another form of the ray that tuberculosis is treated. To say that consumption is now being cured by a contrivance that looks like a brass mortar with a glass end may sound frivolous, but it is none the less true. This piece of artillery, eighteen inches in diameter and twenty inches long, is a condensing lamp, from the concave reflecting lens in the back of which is reflected an electric light of 17,000 candle power. This light is thrown upon a blue glass screen, which cuts out most of the heat rays. Behind this screen sits the consumptive, his breast bared to the rays. A fourteen-inch circle of his chest is covered by the light, and he is kept there for about an hour at a time. Like the Finsen ray, the light produces absolutely no sensation, but it has this peculiarity, lacking in the other ray, that the patient usually succumbs to drowsiness after a few moments, and falls asleep. Its effects are almost immediate; the consumptive's temperature falls; his cough improves; his nightsweats pass off; he gains weight, appetite and strength, and in the course of time the tuberculosis bacilli which have been present in great numbers in his lungs, disappear. Some very striking cases have been recorded in the medical journals. One man came for treatment when apparently almost gone; he was utterly exhausted after walking a block. He had a temperature of 104 degrees and a racking cough, and was little more than a skeleton. Furthermore he had not the slightest faith in the treatment. After he had taken four naps behind the blue glass screen his temperature went down to 100. In the first week he gained four pounds. In the second week he gained four more, and his cough had almost left him. A week later he was able to walk four miles without discomfort, and at the end of two months when he was discharged as cured, examinations of his expectorations failed to discover any bacilli.
The theory of this light cure is more definite than in the case of the Finsen ray; consumption is known to be a germ disease, whereas cancer is still a mystery. Sunlight kills tuberculosis bacilli; and it is supposed that the rays that penetrate the blue glass screen act in the same way. More than this, it is believed that they strengthen the phagocytes. These phagocytes are minute organisms in the blood which act as scavengers. It is their business, when any malevolent germ enters the system, to hasten to the spot and eat him up. Were it not for their ceaseless activity we should all die of consumption, as tuberculosis bacilli are present everywhere. The consumption cure ray, so the theory is, increases the phagocytic appetite to such an extent that no germs can stand before it.
In this age of swiftly-spread progress, the X-ray is already an old story. Many experimenters have tried it in many diseases with varying effect. Perhaps its most successful field is in conjunction with the Finsen ray, in cases of cancer where the center of the trouble is internal. The patient is put under the X-ray for fifteen minutes, and then subjected to the Finsen ray for an hour. The X-ray tends to disintegrate the tissue, and thus the Finsen ray is enabled to penetrate and extend the healing influences to the center of inflammation. But physicians are coming to fear this mysterious agency to which the discoverer gave the appropriate name of X, symbolizing the unknown. It passes through the skin and outer flesh only to destroy inner tissues, and often to start gangrene in the in terior. So it is not now much used as a healing agency, but rather as an auxiliary.
Commenting on the past and present success of electric light treatment, a writer in the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
“What the future of light-therapy is to be, he would be a bold man who should prophesy. It may fairly be regarded as having mastered cancer and consumption in many cases. It has been tried with success in smallpox and scarlet fever. It is being tried in leprosy cases. A celebrated Russian surgeon announces that he used it with success as an anesthetic for surface operations, and to assist healing of wounds, burns and sores. But it is as a germicide that it holds out the greatest hope to the race. Many eminent physicians believe that in time, when its principles of action are understood, it will be directed successfully to the destruction of all germs, and that not only tuberculosis, but pneumonia, cholera, typhoid fever, tetanus; indeed, most of the deadly ills that flesh is heir to, will disappear before it and be wiped off the list of the agents of death.”
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* "Twenty-five years of the telephone" (1901-04, Our Day newsmagazine, Vol. 20, N. 4, pg. 22) (.pdf) [is.gd/PDmXJ0]:
T HE Bell telephone, or the telephone of commerce, is twenty-five years old. On its twenty-fifth anniversary Acting President Cochrane made an address before the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company in which he said: “Twenty years ago there were 47,880 telephone subscribers in the United States, and 29,714 miles of wire in use for telephone purposes.
At the end of last year there were 808,880 exchange stations equipped with our instruments, and 1,961,801 miles of wire employed for exchange and toll line service. The estimated number of daily exchange connections is 5,668,986, or about 1,825,000,000 per year. The average number of daily calls from each
station is 7 1-10, the cost to the subscriber varying in different places from 1 cent to 9 cents per connection. The investment in line construction, equipment and supplies for the long distance system up to December 31, 1900, was $16,152,020.72.”
While the Bell telephone is twenty-five years old, the invention of speaking over electric wires is much older. About fifty years ago a German professor invented a telephone and described it in a book. He really made the first invention. When the correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger was a boy he was taken by his father to the house of an Italian in Staten Island. The Italian had wires running everywhere, and he was experimenting with the idea of the telephone. This was some time before the Bell telephone appeared. A little later, Professor A. K. Eaton of Brooklyn made an instrument by which speech could be transmitted long distances over a wire. The writer was at one end of the wire when the first sentence was spoken this way and remembers the thrill of wonder and delight which the discovery caused. This was several months before the Bell patent. But the Supreme Court of the United States, after a long litigation, awarded to Professor Bell the rights of the first patent.
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* "Solar Powered Family Car Generates More Energy Than It Uses" (2015-07-13, by Evan Ackerman, spectrum.ieee.org) [is.gd/bDaGoo], attached video [youtu.be/A-JeEV2R4bw]:
Solar powered vehicles, whether we’re talking about cars or airplanes, usually share the characteristic of perpetually almost falling apart. What I mean is, solar power is so close to not being usable that vehicles must be as light as possible, or they will not fly (or drive). Technology is improving, though, and it’s at the point where a team from the Eindhoven University of Technology has been able to create a solar powered car that manages to seat four while generating more energy over the course of the year than it uses to drive [solarteameindhoven.nl/stella-lux].
“Stella Lux” is an upgrade of Solar Team Eindhoven’s “Stella” solar powered family car, originally developed in 2013. Stella Lux is made primarily of carbon fiber and aluminum for a total weight of just 375 kg, and features a tunnel that runs through the bottom center of the car to improve aerodynamic efficiency. On the roof is a 5.8 square meter array of solar panels to feed the car and charge 15 kWh of onboard batteries, giving the car a fully charged range of about 1,100 km where it’s sunny (like in Australia) and 1,000 km where it’s not (the Netherlands). This range almost certainly goes down if you’re carting around three American-sized passengers, or if you push the car to its top speed of 125 km/h.
Inside, the car actually looks pretty comfy, despite the big tunnel down the middle. The seats and doors are integrated with each other to save weight while increasing interior space, and there’s some sort of mood lightning. The driver has access to a whole bunch of tactile controls with haptic feedback, and the navigation system is weather aware, able to plan the most efficient route by taking into account where the most sunlight can be found.
What might be most impressive about Stella Lux is that it’s energy positive: on average, the car uses less energy driving than it produces during the day, even in a place like the Netherlands where it’s not constantly sunny. Depending on weather, the daily range of the car on solar power alone varies between about 50 km and 300 km, and driving any less than the daily max solar range results in a surplus of energy that can be returned to the grid.This October, Stella Lux will be competing in the the Cruiser Class of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a 3,000 km race through the Australian Outback. And for a mere 10,000 Euro pledge to the team's crowdfunding campaign [solarteameindhoven.nl/support-us], they’ll fly you to Australia to ride in Stella Lux yourself.
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* "New form of light discovered, proving Planck’s constant can change" (2016-05-19, rt.com) [archive.is/II2TX]
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* "Plant power: Autonomous “cyber garden” rolls its own way to better environment" (2016-05-17, rt.com) [archive.is/FkwD5]
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* "Glass houses? Scientists develop ‘transparent wood’ for electronics, construction" (2016-05-17, rt.com) [archive.is/NvzsU]. Image caption [archive.is/DP6mO]:
1 Lignin removed, polymer-filled
2.Transmittance for transparent wood with 2 anisotropic structures
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* "Glass houses? Scientists develop ‘transparent wood’ for electronics, construction" (2016-05-17, rt.com) [archive.is/NvzsU]. Image caption [archive.is/DP6mO]:
1 Lignin removed, polymer-filled
2.Transmittance for transparent wood with 2 anisotropic structures
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* "Scientists create ‘rewritable magnetic charge ice’ " (2016-05-20, newsroom.niu.edu) [archive.is/mEIBL]
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* "Electronic devices that melt in your brain; Bioresorbable devices promise to help eliminate the risks, cost, and discomfort associated with surgical extraction of current devices" (2016-05-06, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/6uzWa]
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* "More evidence that you’re a mindless robot with no free will; How we may confabulate reality and rationalize irrational behavior" (2016-05-04, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/Aq2bV]
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* "Electronic devices that melt in your brain; Bioresorbable devices promise to help eliminate the risks, cost, and discomfort associated with surgical extraction of current devices" (2016-05-06, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/6uzWa]
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* "More evidence that you’re a mindless robot with no free will; How we may confabulate reality and rationalize irrational behavior" (2016-05-04, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/Aq2bV]
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* "Why Scientists on Two Continents Are Growing Dinosaur Parts on Chickens" (2016-03-15, motherboard.vice.com) [archive.is/sTq7N]
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* "IU physicist leads discovery of new particle: 'four-flavored' tetraquark" (2016-03-02, news.indiana.edu) [archive.is/VMQM3], image caption: The new particle is the first tetraquark to contain four quarks of different "flavors."
* "Mayo Clinic researchers extend lifespan by up to 35 percent in mice" (2016-02-03, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/Zg4hj]
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* "Wireless signal strong enough to stream Netflix goes through flesh to revolutionize implants" (2016-04-15, rt.com) [archive.is/G0Duf]
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* "Technicolor stores Hollywood history in a bottle" (2016-04-05, AFP Newswire) [archive.is/R8gLH]
* "1000+ yr shelf life: Microsoft buys into synthetic DNA for data storage" (2016-04-29, rt.com) [archive.is/WGch4]
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* " ‘Eternal 5D’ data storage could reliably record the history of humankind; Digital documents stored in nanostructured dots in fused quartz crystal for billions of years could survive the end of the human race" (2016-02-16, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/2gzvL], photo caption: Documents captured in nanostructured glass, expected to last billions of years (credit: University of Southampton)
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* "IU physicist leads discovery of new particle: 'four-flavored' tetraquark" (2016-03-02, news.indiana.edu) [archive.is/VMQM3], image caption: The new particle is the first tetraquark to contain four quarks of different "flavors."
* "Mayo Clinic researchers extend lifespan by up to 35 percent in mice" (2016-02-03, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/Zg4hj]
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* "Wireless signal strong enough to stream Netflix goes through flesh to revolutionize implants" (2016-04-15, rt.com) [archive.is/G0Duf]
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* "Technicolor stores Hollywood history in a bottle" (2016-04-05, AFP Newswire) [archive.is/R8gLH]
* "1000+ yr shelf life: Microsoft buys into synthetic DNA for data storage" (2016-04-29, rt.com) [archive.is/WGch4]
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* " ‘Eternal 5D’ data storage could reliably record the history of humankind; Digital documents stored in nanostructured dots in fused quartz crystal for billions of years could survive the end of the human race" (2016-02-16, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/2gzvL], photo caption: Documents captured in nanostructured glass, expected to last billions of years (credit: University of Southampton)
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* "New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material; An international team of researchers has found evidence of a mysterious new state of matter, first predicted 40 years ago, in a real material. This state, known as a quantum spin liquid, causes electrons -- thought to be indivisible building blocks of nature -- to break into pieces" (2016-04-04, University of Cambridge) [archive.is/oyudY], photo caption: The excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice with neutrons.
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* "UGA researchers use single molecule of DNA to create world’s smallest diode" (2016-04-04, UGA researchers use molecule of DNA to create world's smallest diode; Study advances search for silicon chip replacement" (2016-04-04, news.uga.edu) [archive.is/Xbkyr]
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* "Artificial molecules; A new method allows scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM to fabricate artificial molecules out of different types of microspheres. The researchers would like to one day use such tiny objects in micro-robots, for photonics and basic biochemical research" (2016-04-01, ethz.ch) [archive.is/5PlIl]
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* "Scientists program microbots to clean polluted water" (2016-04-11, UPI Newswire) [archive.is/Ypm4K]
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* "Converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into batteries: A green solution for a global problem" (2016-03-02, vanderbilt.edu) [archive.is/yfPth]. Image caption: The Solar Thermal Electrochemical Process (STEP) converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes that can be used in advanced batteries.
* "Scientists grow eye lens from patients’ own stem cells, restoring vision; In pioneering new cataract treatment of 12 pediatric patients, the eye grew a new lens from its own stem cells after cloudy lens was removed" (2016-03-11, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/2Td9F]
* "Are you ready for soft, morphing, crawling robots with glowing skin displays? Turn and face the strange" (2016-03-11, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/2Au5j], attached video [https://youtu.be/3zK1_0ZR-qc]
* "Regenerative medicine scientists ‘print’ replacement tissue" (2016-02-24, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/QVddR]
* "Amputee feels texture with a ‘bionic’ fingertip; Other artificial-touch uses include robotics in surgery, rescue, and manufacturing" (2016-03-10, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/UY8V6]. Image caption: An amputee feels texture in real time: Signals from sensors in an artificial fingertip are converted to neural-like spikes and delivered to nerves in the upper arm.
* "Fungi funeral: Mushroom ‘death suit’ offers eco-friendly alternative to caskets & cremation" (2016-02-13, rt.com) [archive.is/ixpFp], video [https://youtu.be/_7rS_d1fiUc]
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* "UGA researchers use single molecule of DNA to create world’s smallest diode" (2016-04-04, UGA researchers use molecule of DNA to create world's smallest diode; Study advances search for silicon chip replacement" (2016-04-04, news.uga.edu) [archive.is/Xbkyr]
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* "Artificial molecules; A new method allows scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM to fabricate artificial molecules out of different types of microspheres. The researchers would like to one day use such tiny objects in micro-robots, for photonics and basic biochemical research" (2016-04-01, ethz.ch) [archive.is/5PlIl]
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* "Scientists program microbots to clean polluted water" (2016-04-11, UPI Newswire) [archive.is/Ypm4K]
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* "Converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into batteries: A green solution for a global problem" (2016-03-02, vanderbilt.edu) [archive.is/yfPth]. Image caption: The Solar Thermal Electrochemical Process (STEP) converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes that can be used in advanced batteries.
* "Scientists grow eye lens from patients’ own stem cells, restoring vision; In pioneering new cataract treatment of 12 pediatric patients, the eye grew a new lens from its own stem cells after cloudy lens was removed" (2016-03-11, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/2Td9F]
* "Are you ready for soft, morphing, crawling robots with glowing skin displays? Turn and face the strange" (2016-03-11, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/2Au5j], attached video [https://youtu.be/3zK1_0ZR-qc]
* "Regenerative medicine scientists ‘print’ replacement tissue" (2016-02-24, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/QVddR]
* "Amputee feels texture with a ‘bionic’ fingertip; Other artificial-touch uses include robotics in surgery, rescue, and manufacturing" (2016-03-10, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/UY8V6]. Image caption: An amputee feels texture in real time: Signals from sensors in an artificial fingertip are converted to neural-like spikes and delivered to nerves in the upper arm.
* "Fungi funeral: Mushroom ‘death suit’ offers eco-friendly alternative to caskets & cremation" (2016-02-13, rt.com) [archive.is/ixpFp], video [https://youtu.be/_7rS_d1fiUc]
* "Taking the cake: Groundbreaking gravitational wave accidentally revealed in tweet" (2016-02-12, rt.com) [archive.is/SXCcf]
* "HRL demonstartes the potential to enhance human intellect's existing capacity to learn new skills" (2016-02-10, hrl.com) [archive.is/stWrF], video [youtube.com/watch?v=oIvdvG_zj6A]
* "Brain Boost: ONR Global Sponsors Research to Improve Memory through Electricity" (2016-02-29, Office of Naval Research - Corporate Strategic Communications, onr.navy.mil) [archive.is/7AWKH] [begin excerpt]: In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, researchers at the Catholic University Medical School in Rome significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.
The study, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, involved the use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, or tDCS, on the mice. A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low-intensity electrical currents.
“In addition to potentially enhancing task performance for Sailors and Marines,” said ONR Global Commanding Officer Capt. Clark Troyer, “understanding how this technique works biochemically may lead to advances in the treatment of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety—which affect learning and memory in otherwise healthy individuals.”
The implications of this research also have great potential to strengthen learning and memory in both healthy people and those with cognitive deficits such as Alzheimer’s.
“We already have promising results in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Claudio Grassi, who leads the research team. “In the near future, we will continue this research and extend analyses of tDCS to other brain areas and functions.”
After exposing the mice to single 20-minute tDCS sessions, the researchers saw signs of improved memory and brain plasticity (the ability to form new connections between neurons when learning new information), which lasted at least a week. This intellectual boost was demonstrated by the enhanced performance of the mice during tests requiring them to navigate a water maze and distinguish between known and unknown objects.
Using data gathered from the sessions, Grassi’s team discovered increased synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to memory processing and storage. [end excerpt]
* "K-Glass 3 offers users a keyboard to type text KAIST researchers upgraded their smart glasses with a low-power multicore processor to employ stereo vision and deep-learning algorithms, making the user interface and experience more intuitive and convenient" (2016-02-26, The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST) [archive.is/aSPvE], video [youtube.com/watch?v=If_anx5NerQ]
* "Everything Is Entangled: Some Sorcerous Tech Implications" (from runesoup.com) [archive.is/Na9Fk]
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* "Animal Farm: China to build ‘world’s largest cloning factory’ " (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/cz63m]
* "Scientists hope ‘test-tube’ calf can save northern white rhinos" (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/bxr2F]
* "Cool for cats: Ancient frozen lion cubs found in Siberian glacier may be cloned" (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/9KQ5D]
* "South Koreans kick off efforts to clone extinct Siberian cave lions; Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years" (2016-03-04, siberiantimes.com) [siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0606-south-koreans-kick-off-efforts-to-clone-extinct-siberian-cave-lions/] [archive.is/NEz9C] [peeep.us/5c9a6bd1]
* "South Korean geneticists to try clone extinct Siberian lions" (2016-03-06, rt.com) [rt.com/news/334684-siberian-lions-clone-korea/] [archive.is/lmUo9] [peeep.us/49580e72]
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* "Beam me up, Google! Tech giant creates prototype of Star Trek ‘communicator’ " (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/xiRtB]
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* "Robot bridesmaid seen in Tianjin" [archive.is/iq5xN]
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* "Russian 3D-bioprinted thyroid gland implant proves functional in mice" (2015-11-26, rt.com) [archive.is/8yrq2]
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* "Quantum Spin Could Create Unstoppable, One-Dimensional Electron Waves; New theory points the way forward to transform atom-thin materials into powerful conductors" (2015-11-18, bnl.gov) [archive.is/lcInK]
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* " ‘Almost a miracle’: 1yo girl ‘saved from incurable leukemia’ by genome editing therapy" (2015-11-07, rt.com) [archive.is/H7HPc]
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* "Scientists Invent Shapeshifting Origami Robot from Graphene Paper; Chinese scientists have used graphene to make self-folding paper which can change shape, walk and turn a corner, under the influence of light or heat" (2015-11-08, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/rPGQm]
* "Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive" [http://is.gd/7JLZ9d], visit the archive here [http://is.gd/Jhdae3]
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* "World’s First Sonic Tractor Beam Manipulates Objects With Sound; Just in time for the latest Star Wars saga, a team of physicists have created a working tractor beam. Composed of "acoustic holograms," their device creates a force field out of sounds, one capable of manipulating and moving small objects" (2015-10-29, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/Q2PzB], attached video [https://youtu.be/s5r2nmvxA4s]
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* "Physicists learn how to control the movement of electrons in a molecule; Practicing researchers from ETH Zurich and an international group of theoretical physicists have just proved to be able to track and control the movement of electrons in molecules" (2015-10-22, MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY) [archive.is/fkJ95]
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* "Quantum Coherent-like State Observed in a Biological Protein for the First Time; So-called Fröhlich condensation, a state in which protein molecules' vibrational modes coalesce at the lowest frequency, was first predicted almost five decades ago, but never experimentally demonstrated until now" (Structural Dynamics journal) [archive.is/UiGw4]
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* "Carnegie Mellon researchers hack off-the-shelf 3-D printer toward rebuilding the heart" (2015-10-23, engineering.cmu.edu) [archive.is/dJ6te]
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* "Microbiomes could hold keys to improving life as we know it; A Unified Microbiome Initiative to accelerate microbiome research would unlock new insights and speed translation of discoveries into numerous potential technologies for health, industry, and the environment" (2015-10-28, wyss.harvard.edu) [archive.is/4XBvH]
* "Researchers Call for Ambitious Research to Unlock the Power of Earth’s Smallest Ecosystems" (2015-10-28, kavlifoundation.org) [archive.is/Fkg6l]
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* "Robot's influent speaking just to get attention from you; Dynamically adapting robot's utterance and body language based on subtle human cues" (2015-10-22, Toyohashi University of Technology) [archive.is/rLFXk]
* "Amputee kids everywhere can soon get awesome, 3D-printed Star Wars prosthetics" (2015-10-17, rt.com) [archive.is/luHXx], video [https://youtu.be/gRZeC7zLYlQ], more at [www.openbionics.com]
* "Mind hack: Scientists use magnets to change attitudes on immigration, religion" (2015-10-16, rt.com) [archive.is/Ruxmx]
* "Phone or friend? The new robot-shaped smartphone that wants to know you and learn" (2015-10-07, rt.com) [archive.is/VpHpl], video [https://youtu.be/HQtIlxe_ZkY]
* "Researchers Create 'Zombie' Bacteria Which Rise Up to Kill Living Cells" (2015-05-06, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/yLJ1R]: Researchers in Israel found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria killed with silver are very effective at killing similar bacteria which are still alive.
Researchers at the University of Jerusalem have found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria killed with silver nitrate can be used to kill living bacteria. "It worked even better than our expectation. It's a new, previously unrecognized mechanism of how an antibacterial agent kills," researcher David Avner told Chemistry World. The scientists found that the silver absorbed by the cells are used as silver "reservoirs for further killing." However, the bacteria in the experiment are themselves dead, having been killed by the silver nitrate. "The experiments here conclusively show that the bacteria are dead," Dr. Peter Chivers told Chemistry World. The report on the experiments, published in the journal Nature, concludes that the effectiveness of the cells is due to the silver absorbed by them rather than the residue from dead cells. A control group of bacteria cells killed by heat did not lead to the same effect.
The study, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, involved the use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, or tDCS, on the mice. A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low-intensity electrical currents.
“In addition to potentially enhancing task performance for Sailors and Marines,” said ONR Global Commanding Officer Capt. Clark Troyer, “understanding how this technique works biochemically may lead to advances in the treatment of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety—which affect learning and memory in otherwise healthy individuals.”
The implications of this research also have great potential to strengthen learning and memory in both healthy people and those with cognitive deficits such as Alzheimer’s.
“We already have promising results in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Claudio Grassi, who leads the research team. “In the near future, we will continue this research and extend analyses of tDCS to other brain areas and functions.”
After exposing the mice to single 20-minute tDCS sessions, the researchers saw signs of improved memory and brain plasticity (the ability to form new connections between neurons when learning new information), which lasted at least a week. This intellectual boost was demonstrated by the enhanced performance of the mice during tests requiring them to navigate a water maze and distinguish between known and unknown objects.
Using data gathered from the sessions, Grassi’s team discovered increased synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to memory processing and storage. [end excerpt]
* "K-Glass 3 offers users a keyboard to type text KAIST researchers upgraded their smart glasses with a low-power multicore processor to employ stereo vision and deep-learning algorithms, making the user interface and experience more intuitive and convenient" (2016-02-26, The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST) [archive.is/aSPvE], video [youtube.com/watch?v=If_anx5NerQ]
* "Everything Is Entangled: Some Sorcerous Tech Implications" (from runesoup.com) [archive.is/Na9Fk]
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* "Animal Farm: China to build ‘world’s largest cloning factory’ " (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/cz63m]
* "Scientists hope ‘test-tube’ calf can save northern white rhinos" (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/bxr2F]
* "Cool for cats: Ancient frozen lion cubs found in Siberian glacier may be cloned" (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/9KQ5D]
* "South Koreans kick off efforts to clone extinct Siberian cave lions; Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years" (2016-03-04, siberiantimes.com) [siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0606-south-koreans-kick-off-efforts-to-clone-extinct-siberian-cave-lions/] [archive.is/NEz9C] [peeep.us/5c9a6bd1]
* "South Korean geneticists to try clone extinct Siberian lions" (2016-03-06, rt.com) [rt.com/news/334684-siberian-lions-clone-korea/] [archive.is/lmUo9] [peeep.us/49580e72]
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* "Beam me up, Google! Tech giant creates prototype of Star Trek ‘communicator’ " (2015-11-23, rt.com) [archive.is/xiRtB]
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* "Robot bridesmaid seen in Tianjin" [archive.is/iq5xN]
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* "Russian 3D-bioprinted thyroid gland implant proves functional in mice" (2015-11-26, rt.com) [archive.is/8yrq2]
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* "Quantum Spin Could Create Unstoppable, One-Dimensional Electron Waves; New theory points the way forward to transform atom-thin materials into powerful conductors" (2015-11-18, bnl.gov) [archive.is/lcInK]
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* " ‘Almost a miracle’: 1yo girl ‘saved from incurable leukemia’ by genome editing therapy" (2015-11-07, rt.com) [archive.is/H7HPc]
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* "Scientists Invent Shapeshifting Origami Robot from Graphene Paper; Chinese scientists have used graphene to make self-folding paper which can change shape, walk and turn a corner, under the influence of light or heat" (2015-11-08, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/rPGQm]
* "Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive" [http://is.gd/7JLZ9d], visit the archive here [http://is.gd/Jhdae3]
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* "World’s First Sonic Tractor Beam Manipulates Objects With Sound; Just in time for the latest Star Wars saga, a team of physicists have created a working tractor beam. Composed of "acoustic holograms," their device creates a force field out of sounds, one capable of manipulating and moving small objects" (2015-10-29, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/Q2PzB], attached video [https://youtu.be/s5r2nmvxA4s]
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* "Physicists learn how to control the movement of electrons in a molecule; Practicing researchers from ETH Zurich and an international group of theoretical physicists have just proved to be able to track and control the movement of electrons in molecules" (2015-10-22, MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY) [archive.is/fkJ95]
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* "Quantum Coherent-like State Observed in a Biological Protein for the First Time; So-called Fröhlich condensation, a state in which protein molecules' vibrational modes coalesce at the lowest frequency, was first predicted almost five decades ago, but never experimentally demonstrated until now" (Structural Dynamics journal) [archive.is/UiGw4]
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* "Carnegie Mellon researchers hack off-the-shelf 3-D printer toward rebuilding the heart" (2015-10-23, engineering.cmu.edu) [archive.is/dJ6te]
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* "Microbiomes could hold keys to improving life as we know it; A Unified Microbiome Initiative to accelerate microbiome research would unlock new insights and speed translation of discoveries into numerous potential technologies for health, industry, and the environment" (2015-10-28, wyss.harvard.edu) [archive.is/4XBvH]
* "Researchers Call for Ambitious Research to Unlock the Power of Earth’s Smallest Ecosystems" (2015-10-28, kavlifoundation.org) [archive.is/Fkg6l]
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* "Robot's influent speaking just to get attention from you; Dynamically adapting robot's utterance and body language based on subtle human cues" (2015-10-22, Toyohashi University of Technology) [archive.is/rLFXk]
* "Amputee kids everywhere can soon get awesome, 3D-printed Star Wars prosthetics" (2015-10-17, rt.com) [archive.is/luHXx], video [https://youtu.be/gRZeC7zLYlQ], more at [www.openbionics.com]
* "Mind hack: Scientists use magnets to change attitudes on immigration, religion" (2015-10-16, rt.com) [archive.is/Ruxmx]
* "Phone or friend? The new robot-shaped smartphone that wants to know you and learn" (2015-10-07, rt.com) [archive.is/VpHpl], video [https://youtu.be/HQtIlxe_ZkY]
* "Researchers Create 'Zombie' Bacteria Which Rise Up to Kill Living Cells" (2015-05-06, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/yLJ1R]: Researchers in Israel found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria killed with silver are very effective at killing similar bacteria which are still alive.
Researchers at the University of Jerusalem have found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria killed with silver nitrate can be used to kill living bacteria. "It worked even better than our expectation. It's a new, previously unrecognized mechanism of how an antibacterial agent kills," researcher David Avner told Chemistry World. The scientists found that the silver absorbed by the cells are used as silver "reservoirs for further killing." However, the bacteria in the experiment are themselves dead, having been killed by the silver nitrate. "The experiments here conclusively show that the bacteria are dead," Dr. Peter Chivers told Chemistry World. The report on the experiments, published in the journal Nature, concludes that the effectiveness of the cells is due to the silver absorbed by them rather than the residue from dead cells. A control group of bacteria cells killed by heat did not lead to the same effect.
* "Italian-Chinese medical team to perform first head transplant" (2015-09-11, AFP newswire) [archive.is/XqFcf]
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* "New Tool for Studying Magnetic, Self-Propelled Bacteria that Resemble Compass Needles" (2015-09-15, Review of Scientific Instruments) [archive.is/iqndK]
* "Magnetic wormhole connecting two regions of space created for the first time" (2015-09-03, phys.org) [archive.is/kQcEY], original version [archive.is/g8X0J]
(Left) 3-D diagram of the magnetic wormhole shows how the magnetic field lines (in red) leaves a magnet on the right pass through the wormhole. (Right) In terms of magnetism the wormhole is undetectable, which means that the magnetic field seems to disappear on the right only to reappear on the left in the form of a magnetic monopole. Credit: Jordi Prat-Camps and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
* "Magnetic cloak: Physicists create device invisible to magnetic fields" (2012-03-22, phys.org) [archive.is/mCPlP]
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* "New theory leads to radiationless revolution; Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash" (2015-08-27, Australian National Newspaper) [archive.is/Pe2fX]
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* "Modified bacteria become a multicellular circuit" (2015-08-27, rice.edu) [archive.is/i9uPU], full paper [archive.is/acKBE]
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* "Using DNA origami to build nanodevices of the future" (2015-08-31, phys.org) [archive.is/O3ZNF]
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* "DNA-Guided 3-D Printing of Human Tissue is Unveiled Technique Produces ‘Organoids’ Useful in Cancer Research, Drug Screening" (2015-08-31, ucsf.edu) [archive.is/Oc6D6]
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* "Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum" (2015-09-04, rochester.edu/) [archive.is/KGNob]
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* "Making Nanowires from Protein and DNA" (2015-09-03, caltech.edu) [archive.is/TtilI]
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* "Intracellular microlasers for precise labeling of a trillion individual cells" (2015-08-03, kurzweilai.net/) [archive.is/iXDns]
* "Move over, autonomous AI weapons, there’s a new risk in town: ‘gene drives’ " (2015-08-06, kurzweilai.net) [rchive.is/eMZkG]
* "3D-printed swimming microrobots can sense and remove toxins; Nanoparticles enable them to be self-propelled, chemically powered, and magnetically steered; could also be used for targeted drug delivery" (2015-08-26, University of California, San Diego) [archive.is/OFgE0]
* " ‘Tricorder’-style handheld MouthLab detects patients’ vital signs, rivaling hospital devices; Could be used by people without special training at home or in the field" (2015-08-25, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) [archive.is/9PdXe]
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* "New Tool for Studying Magnetic, Self-Propelled Bacteria that Resemble Compass Needles" (2015-09-15, Review of Scientific Instruments) [archive.is/iqndK]
* "Magnetic wormhole connecting two regions of space created for the first time" (2015-09-03, phys.org) [archive.is/kQcEY], original version [archive.is/g8X0J]
(Left) 3-D diagram of the magnetic wormhole shows how the magnetic field lines (in red) leaves a magnet on the right pass through the wormhole. (Right) In terms of magnetism the wormhole is undetectable, which means that the magnetic field seems to disappear on the right only to reappear on the left in the form of a magnetic monopole. Credit: Jordi Prat-Camps and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
* "Magnetic cloak: Physicists create device invisible to magnetic fields" (2012-03-22, phys.org) [archive.is/mCPlP]
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* "New theory leads to radiationless revolution; Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash" (2015-08-27, Australian National Newspaper) [archive.is/Pe2fX]
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* "Modified bacteria become a multicellular circuit" (2015-08-27, rice.edu) [archive.is/i9uPU], full paper [archive.is/acKBE]
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* "Using DNA origami to build nanodevices of the future" (2015-08-31, phys.org) [archive.is/O3ZNF]
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* "DNA-Guided 3-D Printing of Human Tissue is Unveiled Technique Produces ‘Organoids’ Useful in Cancer Research, Drug Screening" (2015-08-31, ucsf.edu) [archive.is/Oc6D6]
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* "Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum" (2015-09-04, rochester.edu/) [archive.is/KGNob]
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* "Making Nanowires from Protein and DNA" (2015-09-03, caltech.edu) [archive.is/TtilI]
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* "Intracellular microlasers for precise labeling of a trillion individual cells" (2015-08-03, kurzweilai.net/) [archive.is/iXDns]
* "Move over, autonomous AI weapons, there’s a new risk in town: ‘gene drives’ " (2015-08-06, kurzweilai.net) [rchive.is/eMZkG]
* "3D-printed swimming microrobots can sense and remove toxins; Nanoparticles enable them to be self-propelled, chemically powered, and magnetically steered; could also be used for targeted drug delivery" (2015-08-26, University of California, San Diego) [archive.is/OFgE0]
* " ‘Tricorder’-style handheld MouthLab detects patients’ vital signs, rivaling hospital devices; Could be used by people without special training at home or in the field" (2015-08-25, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) [archive.is/9PdXe]
* "US team beats Iranians in Robocup football final" (2015-07-22, AFP Newswire) [archive.is/1rxzb]
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* "Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light" (2015-08-11, Applied Physics Letters) [archive.is/BPbfU]
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* "New method of quantum entanglement vastly increases how much information can be carried in a photon" (2015-06-29, newsroom.ucla.edu) [archive.is/TlpTS]
* "The Quantum Middle Man" (2015-07-02, oist.jp) [archive.is/ODBb2] [begin excerpt]: Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have identified a system that could store quantum information for longer times, which is critical for the future of quantum computing. Quantum computing -- which aims to use particles on the atomic scale to make calculations and store the results -- has the potential to solve some key problems much faster than current computers. To make quantum computing a reality, scientists must find a system that remains stable long enough to make the calculations. While this is an extremely short time frame, only thousandths of a second, the particles involved are so small that they are easily influenced by their surroundings. If the motion of the particles is disturbed, even a little, it throws off the whole calculation. Nuclei are promising contenders for quantum memory because they are not easily influenced by their surroundings. However, that also makes them extremely difficult to manipulate. Many quantum physicists have tried with little success. Instead of trying control the nucleus directly, the researchers focused on a “middle man” of sorts – the electrons orbiting the nucleus. The nucleus has a tiny internal magnet, called a “magnetic moment,” and the electrons orbiting around it also have magnetic moments that are about 1,000 times larger. Those magnets interact with each other, which is called the “hyperfine interaction.” Information in quantum computing is conveyed by photons, which are individual particles of light, which also make up other nonvisible electromagnetic waves, such as ultraviolet and microwaves. The information transmitted is actually the quantum state of the photon. The quantum state of the photon needs to be transferred to another particle so it will last long enough for the computation to take place. [end excerpt]
* "Smaller, faster, cheaper" (2015-07-28, ethz.ch) [archive.is/0Oel3] [begin excerpt]:
Transmitting large amounts of data, such as those needed to keep the internet running, requires high-performance modulators that turn electric signals into light signals. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a modulator that is a hundred times smaller than conventional models.
In February 1880 in his laboratory in Washington the American inventor Alexander Graham Bell developed a device which he himself called his greatest achievement, greater even than the telephone: the “photophone”. Bell’s idea to transmit spoken words over large distances using light was the forerunner of a technology without which the modern internet would be unthinkable. Today, huge amounts of data are sent incredibly fast through fibre-optic cables as light pulses. For that purpose they first have to be converted from electrical signals, which are used by computers and telephones, into optical signals. In Bell’s days it was a simple, very thin mirror that turned sound waves into modulated light. Today’s electro-optic modulators are more complicated, but they do have one thing in common with their distant ancestor: at several centimeters they are still rather large, especially when compared with electronic devices that can be as small as a few micrometers.
In a seminal paper in the scientific journal “Nature Photonics”, Juerg Leuthold, professor of photonics and communications at ETH Zurich, and his colleagues now present a novel modulator that is a hundred times smaller and that can, therefore, be easily integrated into electronic circuits. Moreover, the new modulator is considerably cheaper and faster than common models, and it uses far less energy. [end excerpt]
(Photo: Haffner et al. Nature Photonics): Colourized electron microscope image of a micro-modulator made of gold. In the slit in the centre of the picture light is converted into plasmon polaritons, modulated and then re-converted into light pulses.
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July 10th: Nikola Tesla's Birthday, for whom we have radio, alternating-current (AC) electricity, microwave emitters, and the foundation for our technological civilization. Thank you!
Selected writing of Nikola Tesla [archive.is/ffuQ], including:
* "Experiments with Alternating Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" (1892) [archive.is/UTsc]
* "Earth Electricity to kill Monopoly; A Way to Harness Free Electric Currents" (1896) [archive.is/Ed1JC]
* "Possibilities of wireless" (1897) [archive.is/wCFAp]
* "Talking with Planets" (1901) [archive.is/1pw0X]
* "Rain can be controlled and hydraulic force provided if we turn to sun for power" (1920) [archive.is/JrkM5]
* "World system of wireless transmission of energy" (1927) [archive.is/q51O]
* "Tesla invents 'Peace Ray' " (1934) [archive.is/6ic28]
"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together ... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." - Max Planck, from a speech Dr. Planck presented in Florence, Italy in 1944, entitled “Das Wesen der Materie” (The Essence/Nature/Character of Matter) Quelle: Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797: [greggbraden.com/resources]
Dr. Francis William Aston made a promise on 12 December 1922 that, with nuclear energy, "the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dreams of scientific fiction; but the remote possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event the whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star." ("Mass spectra and isotopes" Nobel Prize Lecture by Francis William Aston, page 20 [http://is.gd/TGrUBJ] or at [http://is.gd/xZbRf0])
Dr. Kuroda'a, standing in the ruins of Hiroshima in August 1945, said: "I became overwhelmed by the power of nuclear energy. The sight before my eyes was just like the end of the world, but I also felt that the beginning of the world may have been just like this" ("The Origin of the Chemical Elements and the Oklo Phenomenon" book page 2, by P. K. Kuroda, 1982-12 Springer Publishing, [http://is.gd/vlzS3X])
* "Virginia Tech scientist develops model for robots with bacterial brains" (2015-07-16, vtnews.vt.edu) [archive.is/3UAVe]
* "Researchers demonstrated the first realization of invisible absorbers and sensors; Absorbers are completely transparent at non-operational frequencies" (2015-07-20, aalto.fi/en) [archive.is/Lx77D]
* "Bringing Back the Magic in Metamaterials" (2015-07-16, mtu.edu) [archive.is/m5WwB]:
A single drop of blood is teeming with microorganisms—imagine if we could see them, and even nanometer-sized viruses, with the naked eye. That’s a real possibility with what scientists call a “perfect lens.” The lens hasn’t been created yet, but it is a theoretical perfected optical lens made out of metamaterials, which are engineered to change the way the materials interact with light.
* "After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered" (2015-07-16, princeton.edu) [archive.is/cyB48]
* "Weyl points: Wanted for 86 years" (2015-07-16, mit.edu) [archive.is/s4WZv]:
"The discovery of Weyl points is not only the smoking gun to a scientific mystery," comments MIT Professor Marin Soljači?, "it paves the way to absolutely new photonic phenomena and applications. Think of the graphene revolution: graphene is a 2D structure, and its electronic properties are, to a substantial extent, a consequence of the existence of linear degeneracy points (known as Dirac points) in its momentum space. Materials containing Weyl points do the same in 3D. They literally add one degree of freedom, one dimension."
* "Drawing a line between quantum and classical: Bell’s Inequality fails test as boundary" (2015-07-21, rochester.edu) [archive.is/3Srcl]
* "Rare form: novel structures built from DNA emerge" (2015-07-20, biodesign.asu.edu) [archive.is/QbKvu]:
DNA, the molecular foundation of life, has new tricks up its sleeve. The four bases from which it is composed snap together like jigsaw pieces and can be artificially manipulated to construct endlessly varied forms in two and three dimensions.
The technique, known as DNA origami, promises to bring futuristic microelectronics and biomedical innovations to market.
Hao Yan, a researcher at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, has worked for many years to refine the technique. His aim is to compose new sets of design rules, vastly expanding the range of nanoscale architectures generated by the method. In new research, a variety of innovative nanoforms are described, each displaying unprecedented design control.
* "Trapped Light Orbits Within an Intriguing Material" (2015-07-16, ucsdnews.ucsd.edu) [archive.is/cOMjn]
* "Hitchhiking robot begins journey across U.S." (2015-07-18, UPI Newswire) [archive.is/sTUlL]. HitchBOT, a bucket-shaped robot from Ontario, is an art project with a social twist, existing to test the trustworthiness of human strangers on its journey. The bot has a personality of its own, and even a "bucket list" of American hot spots it hopes to visit.
* "Neuroscientists establish brain-to-brain networks in primates, rodents" (2015-07-09, Duke University Medical Center) [archive.is/pQcVU] [begin excerpt]: Neuroscientists have introduced a new paradigm for brain-machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks. These brain networks, or Brainets, were developed in rodents and primates. [end excerpt]
* "Hopping towards a better soft robot" (2015-07-09, seas.harvard.edu) [archive.is/0vnbN]
* "3D-printed Robot is Hard at Heart, Soft on Outside" (2015-07-09, ucsdnews.ucsd.edu) [archive.is/qSDxu]
This bunny-rabbit robot is soft, is created in a maker machine, and can hop unassisted over various obstacles. Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RyFRfFPV9xI]
* "There Were Listicles That Went Viral Long Before There Was an Internet: Digital scholars are zeroing in on stories that were trending way back in the 19th century" (2015-07, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/zIE92]
* Viral Texts: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines [viraltexts.org]
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* "The Hyperloop Will Be Only the Latest Innovation That's Pretty Much a Series of Tubes" (2015-07, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/jZrAl]. Women were hired to process information during the first half of the 20th century, and were called "Computers" before being replaced by the robotic machines we call computers today.
* "Iowa State engineers develop micro-tentacles so tiny robots can handle delicate objects" (2015-06-19, iastate.edu) [archive.is/awpvO]
* "Disabled people remotely pilot robot in another country with their thoughts" (2015-06-24, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/Z02Ct]
* "First working synthetic immune organ with controllable antibodies" (2015-06-11, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/I1Jm1]
* "Scientists create synthetic membranes that grow like living cells" (2015-06-23, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/vs8d0]
* "The “dreams” of Google’s AI are equal parts amazing and disturbing" (2015-06-19, qz.com) [archive.is/YYtAX], full photo set [http://is.gd/hQDUM8]
* "Argonne scientists announce first room-temperature magnetic skyrmion bubbles" (2015-06-12, anl.gov) [archive.is/kbobu]
* "Scientists tune X-rays with tiny mirrors" (2015-05-05, anl.gov) [archive.is/06KUE]
* "Planarian Regeneration Model Discovered by Artificial Intelligence" (2015-06-04, tufts.edu) [archive.is/COOAl]
* "Landmark study proves that magnets can control heat and sound" (2015-03-23, osu.edu) [archive.is/LxJIi]
* "Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers" (2015-05-28, engineering.stanford.edu) [archive.is/BQ3xH]
* "Engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets" (2015-06-09, phys.org) [archive.is/YovVV]
* "Donuts, math, and superdense teleportation of quantum information" (2015-05-28, engineering.illinois.edu) [archive.is/YVjXo]
* "One Step Closer to a Single-Molecule Device" (2015-06-03, engineering.columbia.edu) [archive.is/Jvt2e] [begin excerpt]: Under the direction of Latha Venkataraman, associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, researchers have designed a new technique to create a single-molecule diode, and, in doing so, they have developed molecular diodes that perform 50 times better than all prior designs. Venkataraman’s group is the first to develop a single-molecule diode that may have real-world technological applications for nanoscale devices. Their paper, “Single-Molecule Diodes with High On-Off Ratios through Environmental Control,” was published May 25 in Nature Nanotechnology. [end excerpt]
* "DNA Double Helix Does Double Duty in Assembling Arrays of Nanoparticles; Synthetic pieces of biological molecule form framework and glue for making nanoparticle clusters and arrays" (2015-05-25, bnl.gov) [archive.is/eS3J3] [begin excerpt]: In a new twist on the use of DNA in nanoscale construction, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators put synthetic strands of the biological material to work in two ways: They used ropelike configurations of the DNA double helix to form a rigid geometrical framework, and added dangling pieces of single-stranded DNA to glue nanoparticles in place.
The method, described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, produced predictable clusters and arrays of nanoparticles—an important step toward the design of materials with tailored structures and functions for applications in energy, optics, and medicine. [end excerpt]
[image caption] Scientists built octahedrons using ropelike structures made of bundles of DNA double-helix molecules to form the frames (a). Single strands of DNA attached at the vertices (numbered in red) can be used to attach nanoparticles coated with complementary strands. This approach can yield a variety of structures, including ones with the same type of particle at each vertex (b), arrangements with particles placed only on certain vertices (c), and structures with different particles placed strategically on different vertices (d).
* "An Important Step in Artificial Intelligence" (2015-05-11, news.ucsb.edu) [archive.is/y7n5n] [begin excerpt]: In what marks a significant step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the functionality of a simple artificial neural circuit. For the first time, a circuit of about 100 artificial synapses was proved to perform a simple version of a typical human task: image classification.
“It’s a small, but important step,” said Dmitri Strukov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. With time and further progress, the circuitry may eventually be expanded and scaled to approach something like the human brain’s, which has 1015 (one quadrillion) synaptic connections. [end excerpt]
* "Computing at the speed of light; Utah engineers take a step toward silicon photonic computing at seeds millions of times faster than current machines" (2015-05-18, unews.utah.edu) [archive.is/7QQ83]
* "Rice scientists use light to probe acoustic tuning in gold nanodisks" (2015-05-07) [web.archive.org/web/20150523034034/http://news.rice.edu/2015/05/07/rice-scientists-use-light-to-probe-acoustic-tuning-in-gold-nanodisks-2]
* "Researchers develop custom artificial membranes with programmable surfaces" (2015-05-07, University of Pennsylvania) [archive.is/uQ55s]
* "The next step in DNA computing: GPS mapping?" (2015-05-06, acs.org) [archive.is/LwBTa]
* "Hydrogels boost ability of stem cells to restore eyesight and heal brains" (2015-05-14, news.engineering.utoronto.ca) [archive.is/3PYZt]
* "Mind Over Matter" (2015-05-21, keck.usc.edu) [archive.is/wkTZX], video [youtube.com/watch?v=lZgeb_HDb48] [begin excerpt]: Paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a gunshot wound when he was 21, Erik G. Sorto now can move a robotic arm just by thinking about it and using his imagination. Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, the now 34-year-old Sorto is the first person in the world to have a neural prosthetic device implanted in a region of the brain where intentions are made, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand-shaking gesture, drink a beverage and even play “rock, paper, scissors,” using a robotic arm. Neural prosthetic devices have previously been implanted in the brain’s movement center, the motor cortex, allowing patients with paralysis to control the movement of a robotic limb. The motion, however, is delayed and jerky. Now, by implanting neuroprosthetics in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a part of the brain that controls not the movement directly but rather the intent to move, Caltech researchers have developed a way to produce more natural and fluid motions. [end excerpt]
* "The Quest to Upload Your Mind Into the Digital Space" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/xfh3L]
* "This Stroke of Genius Could Allow You to Write With Your Brain" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/1weQY]
* "We're Not That Far From Being Able to Grow Human Bones in a Lab" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/vfgrF]
* "Soon, Your Doctor Could Print a Human Organ on Demand" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/kEo30]
* "Computers that Mimic the Function of the Brain; A new step forward in memristor technology could bring us closer to brain-like computing" (2015-04-06, mccormick.northwestern.edu) [https://archive.today/bDeh5]
* "Carbon Nanotube Computing? Single-walled carbon nanotube composites show great promise for many things—including use as a material in “unconventional” computing" (2015-04-05, American Institute of Physics) [https://archive.today/Evf33]
* "The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave" (2015-03-02) [actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-ever-photograph-of-light-as-both-a-parti]
* "Robot acquires chef skills via YouTube instructional vids" (2015-01-30, UPI newswire) [archive.today/EwHyC]
* "Russian SAR-401 Space Robot Ready for the ISS" (2015-03-05, Sputnik newswire) [https://archive.today/ZUuxp]
* "Japan's Robear: Strength of a robot, face of a bear" (2015-02-24, AFP newswire) [archive.today/oSMod]
* "Octopus robot makes waves with ultra-fast propulsion" (2015-02-05) [http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2015/Feb/15_21.shtml] [https://archive.today/67d7o]
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* "Half spheres for molecular circuits" (2015-02-16) [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150216064820.htm] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220062819/http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150216064820.htm]: Corannulene is a carbon molecule with a unique shape (similar to the better known fullerene) and promising properties. A team of scientists carried out computer simulations of the molecule’s properties and discovered that it might help overcome the difficulties building molecular circuits (i.e., of the size of molecules).
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* "Researchers Build Atomically-Thin Gas and Chemical Sensors" (2015-02-18) [http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/27258] [https://archive.today/Gd1mB]
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* "Bar-Ilan University Researcher First to Observe “God Particle” Analogue in Superconductors" (2015-02-19) [https://archive.today/nr697]
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* "In the quantum world, the future affects the past; An experiment shows that hindsight and foresight together more accurately ‘predict’ a quantum system’s state than foresight alone" (2015-02-13) [http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/future-affects-past-quantum-state.aspx] [https://archive.today/eL7cN]
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* "X-ray pulses uncover free nanoparticles for the first time in 3D" (2015-02-04) [http://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=719&two_columns=1] [https://archive.today/NiEUd]
X-ray diffraction image of a truncated twinned tetrahedra nanoparticle.
X-ray diffraction image of a truncated octahedra nanoparticle with 200nm diameter.
X-ray diffraction image of a icosahedra nanoparticle with 240nm diameter.
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* "Researchers unveil contact lenses with zoom capabilities" (2015-02-13) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Researchers_unveil_contact_lenses_with_zoom_capabilities_999.html] [https://archive.today/9oySB]
* "See here now: Telescopic contact lenses and wink-control glasses" (2015-02-13) [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/epfd-shn020915.php] [https://archive.today/XH4qe]
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* "Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light" (2015-08-11, Applied Physics Letters) [archive.is/BPbfU]
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* "New method of quantum entanglement vastly increases how much information can be carried in a photon" (2015-06-29, newsroom.ucla.edu) [archive.is/TlpTS]
* "The Quantum Middle Man" (2015-07-02, oist.jp) [archive.is/ODBb2] [begin excerpt]: Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have identified a system that could store quantum information for longer times, which is critical for the future of quantum computing. Quantum computing -- which aims to use particles on the atomic scale to make calculations and store the results -- has the potential to solve some key problems much faster than current computers. To make quantum computing a reality, scientists must find a system that remains stable long enough to make the calculations. While this is an extremely short time frame, only thousandths of a second, the particles involved are so small that they are easily influenced by their surroundings. If the motion of the particles is disturbed, even a little, it throws off the whole calculation. Nuclei are promising contenders for quantum memory because they are not easily influenced by their surroundings. However, that also makes them extremely difficult to manipulate. Many quantum physicists have tried with little success. Instead of trying control the nucleus directly, the researchers focused on a “middle man” of sorts – the electrons orbiting the nucleus. The nucleus has a tiny internal magnet, called a “magnetic moment,” and the electrons orbiting around it also have magnetic moments that are about 1,000 times larger. Those magnets interact with each other, which is called the “hyperfine interaction.” Information in quantum computing is conveyed by photons, which are individual particles of light, which also make up other nonvisible electromagnetic waves, such as ultraviolet and microwaves. The information transmitted is actually the quantum state of the photon. The quantum state of the photon needs to be transferred to another particle so it will last long enough for the computation to take place. [end excerpt]
* "Smaller, faster, cheaper" (2015-07-28, ethz.ch) [archive.is/0Oel3] [begin excerpt]:
Transmitting large amounts of data, such as those needed to keep the internet running, requires high-performance modulators that turn electric signals into light signals. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a modulator that is a hundred times smaller than conventional models.
In February 1880 in his laboratory in Washington the American inventor Alexander Graham Bell developed a device which he himself called his greatest achievement, greater even than the telephone: the “photophone”. Bell’s idea to transmit spoken words over large distances using light was the forerunner of a technology without which the modern internet would be unthinkable. Today, huge amounts of data are sent incredibly fast through fibre-optic cables as light pulses. For that purpose they first have to be converted from electrical signals, which are used by computers and telephones, into optical signals. In Bell’s days it was a simple, very thin mirror that turned sound waves into modulated light. Today’s electro-optic modulators are more complicated, but they do have one thing in common with their distant ancestor: at several centimeters they are still rather large, especially when compared with electronic devices that can be as small as a few micrometers.
In a seminal paper in the scientific journal “Nature Photonics”, Juerg Leuthold, professor of photonics and communications at ETH Zurich, and his colleagues now present a novel modulator that is a hundred times smaller and that can, therefore, be easily integrated into electronic circuits. Moreover, the new modulator is considerably cheaper and faster than common models, and it uses far less energy. [end excerpt]
(Photo: Haffner et al. Nature Photonics): Colourized electron microscope image of a micro-modulator made of gold. In the slit in the centre of the picture light is converted into plasmon polaritons, modulated and then re-converted into light pulses.
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July 10th: Nikola Tesla's Birthday, for whom we have radio, alternating-current (AC) electricity, microwave emitters, and the foundation for our technological civilization. Thank you!
Selected writing of Nikola Tesla [archive.is/ffuQ], including:* "Experiments with Alternating Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" (1892) [archive.is/UTsc]
* "Earth Electricity to kill Monopoly; A Way to Harness Free Electric Currents" (1896) [archive.is/Ed1JC]
* "Possibilities of wireless" (1897) [archive.is/wCFAp]
* "Talking with Planets" (1901) [archive.is/1pw0X]
* "Rain can be controlled and hydraulic force provided if we turn to sun for power" (1920) [archive.is/JrkM5]
* "World system of wireless transmission of energy" (1927) [archive.is/q51O]
* "Tesla invents 'Peace Ray' " (1934) [archive.is/6ic28]
"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together ... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." - Max Planck, from a speech Dr. Planck presented in Florence, Italy in 1944, entitled “Das Wesen der Materie” (The Essence/Nature/Character of Matter) Quelle: Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797: [greggbraden.com/resources]
Dr. Francis William Aston made a promise on 12 December 1922 that, with nuclear energy, "the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dreams of scientific fiction; but the remote possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event the whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star." ("Mass spectra and isotopes" Nobel Prize Lecture by Francis William Aston, page 20 [http://is.gd/TGrUBJ] or at [http://is.gd/xZbRf0])
Dr. Kuroda'a, standing in the ruins of Hiroshima in August 1945, said: "I became overwhelmed by the power of nuclear energy. The sight before my eyes was just like the end of the world, but I also felt that the beginning of the world may have been just like this" ("The Origin of the Chemical Elements and the Oklo Phenomenon" book page 2, by P. K. Kuroda, 1982-12 Springer Publishing, [http://is.gd/vlzS3X])
* "Virginia Tech scientist develops model for robots with bacterial brains" (2015-07-16, vtnews.vt.edu) [archive.is/3UAVe]
* "Researchers demonstrated the first realization of invisible absorbers and sensors; Absorbers are completely transparent at non-operational frequencies" (2015-07-20, aalto.fi/en) [archive.is/Lx77D]
* "Bringing Back the Magic in Metamaterials" (2015-07-16, mtu.edu) [archive.is/m5WwB]:
A single drop of blood is teeming with microorganisms—imagine if we could see them, and even nanometer-sized viruses, with the naked eye. That’s a real possibility with what scientists call a “perfect lens.” The lens hasn’t been created yet, but it is a theoretical perfected optical lens made out of metamaterials, which are engineered to change the way the materials interact with light.
* "After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered" (2015-07-16, princeton.edu) [archive.is/cyB48]
* "Weyl points: Wanted for 86 years" (2015-07-16, mit.edu) [archive.is/s4WZv]:
"The discovery of Weyl points is not only the smoking gun to a scientific mystery," comments MIT Professor Marin Soljači?, "it paves the way to absolutely new photonic phenomena and applications. Think of the graphene revolution: graphene is a 2D structure, and its electronic properties are, to a substantial extent, a consequence of the existence of linear degeneracy points (known as Dirac points) in its momentum space. Materials containing Weyl points do the same in 3D. They literally add one degree of freedom, one dimension."
* "Drawing a line between quantum and classical: Bell’s Inequality fails test as boundary" (2015-07-21, rochester.edu) [archive.is/3Srcl]
* "Rare form: novel structures built from DNA emerge" (2015-07-20, biodesign.asu.edu) [archive.is/QbKvu]:
DNA, the molecular foundation of life, has new tricks up its sleeve. The four bases from which it is composed snap together like jigsaw pieces and can be artificially manipulated to construct endlessly varied forms in two and three dimensions.
The technique, known as DNA origami, promises to bring futuristic microelectronics and biomedical innovations to market.
Hao Yan, a researcher at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, has worked for many years to refine the technique. His aim is to compose new sets of design rules, vastly expanding the range of nanoscale architectures generated by the method. In new research, a variety of innovative nanoforms are described, each displaying unprecedented design control.
* "Trapped Light Orbits Within an Intriguing Material" (2015-07-16, ucsdnews.ucsd.edu) [archive.is/cOMjn]
* "Hitchhiking robot begins journey across U.S." (2015-07-18, UPI Newswire) [archive.is/sTUlL]. HitchBOT, a bucket-shaped robot from Ontario, is an art project with a social twist, existing to test the trustworthiness of human strangers on its journey. The bot has a personality of its own, and even a "bucket list" of American hot spots it hopes to visit.
* "Neuroscientists establish brain-to-brain networks in primates, rodents" (2015-07-09, Duke University Medical Center) [archive.is/pQcVU] [begin excerpt]: Neuroscientists have introduced a new paradigm for brain-machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks. These brain networks, or Brainets, were developed in rodents and primates. [end excerpt]
* "Hopping towards a better soft robot" (2015-07-09, seas.harvard.edu) [archive.is/0vnbN]
* "3D-printed Robot is Hard at Heart, Soft on Outside" (2015-07-09, ucsdnews.ucsd.edu) [archive.is/qSDxu]
This bunny-rabbit robot is soft, is created in a maker machine, and can hop unassisted over various obstacles. Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RyFRfFPV9xI]
* "There Were Listicles That Went Viral Long Before There Was an Internet: Digital scholars are zeroing in on stories that were trending way back in the 19th century" (2015-07, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/zIE92]
* Viral Texts: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines [viraltexts.org]
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* "The Hyperloop Will Be Only the Latest Innovation That's Pretty Much a Series of Tubes" (2015-07, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/jZrAl]. Women were hired to process information during the first half of the 20th century, and were called "Computers" before being replaced by the robotic machines we call computers today.
* "Iowa State engineers develop micro-tentacles so tiny robots can handle delicate objects" (2015-06-19, iastate.edu) [archive.is/awpvO]
* "Disabled people remotely pilot robot in another country with their thoughts" (2015-06-24, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/Z02Ct]
* "First working synthetic immune organ with controllable antibodies" (2015-06-11, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/I1Jm1]
* "Scientists create synthetic membranes that grow like living cells" (2015-06-23, kurzweilai.net) [archive.is/vs8d0]
* "The “dreams” of Google’s AI are equal parts amazing and disturbing" (2015-06-19, qz.com) [archive.is/YYtAX], full photo set [http://is.gd/hQDUM8]
* "Argonne scientists announce first room-temperature magnetic skyrmion bubbles" (2015-06-12, anl.gov) [archive.is/kbobu]
* "Scientists tune X-rays with tiny mirrors" (2015-05-05, anl.gov) [archive.is/06KUE]
* "Planarian Regeneration Model Discovered by Artificial Intelligence" (2015-06-04, tufts.edu) [archive.is/COOAl]
* "Landmark study proves that magnets can control heat and sound" (2015-03-23, osu.edu) [archive.is/LxJIi]
* "Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers" (2015-05-28, engineering.stanford.edu) [archive.is/BQ3xH]
* "Engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets" (2015-06-09, phys.org) [archive.is/YovVV]
* "Donuts, math, and superdense teleportation of quantum information" (2015-05-28, engineering.illinois.edu) [archive.is/YVjXo]
* "One Step Closer to a Single-Molecule Device" (2015-06-03, engineering.columbia.edu) [archive.is/Jvt2e] [begin excerpt]: Under the direction of Latha Venkataraman, associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, researchers have designed a new technique to create a single-molecule diode, and, in doing so, they have developed molecular diodes that perform 50 times better than all prior designs. Venkataraman’s group is the first to develop a single-molecule diode that may have real-world technological applications for nanoscale devices. Their paper, “Single-Molecule Diodes with High On-Off Ratios through Environmental Control,” was published May 25 in Nature Nanotechnology. [end excerpt]
* "DNA Double Helix Does Double Duty in Assembling Arrays of Nanoparticles; Synthetic pieces of biological molecule form framework and glue for making nanoparticle clusters and arrays" (2015-05-25, bnl.gov) [archive.is/eS3J3] [begin excerpt]: In a new twist on the use of DNA in nanoscale construction, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators put synthetic strands of the biological material to work in two ways: They used ropelike configurations of the DNA double helix to form a rigid geometrical framework, and added dangling pieces of single-stranded DNA to glue nanoparticles in place.
The method, described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, produced predictable clusters and arrays of nanoparticles—an important step toward the design of materials with tailored structures and functions for applications in energy, optics, and medicine. [end excerpt][image caption] Scientists built octahedrons using ropelike structures made of bundles of DNA double-helix molecules to form the frames (a). Single strands of DNA attached at the vertices (numbered in red) can be used to attach nanoparticles coated with complementary strands. This approach can yield a variety of structures, including ones with the same type of particle at each vertex (b), arrangements with particles placed only on certain vertices (c), and structures with different particles placed strategically on different vertices (d).
* "An Important Step in Artificial Intelligence" (2015-05-11, news.ucsb.edu) [archive.is/y7n5n] [begin excerpt]: In what marks a significant step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the functionality of a simple artificial neural circuit. For the first time, a circuit of about 100 artificial synapses was proved to perform a simple version of a typical human task: image classification.
“It’s a small, but important step,” said Dmitri Strukov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. With time and further progress, the circuitry may eventually be expanded and scaled to approach something like the human brain’s, which has 1015 (one quadrillion) synaptic connections. [end excerpt]
* "Computing at the speed of light; Utah engineers take a step toward silicon photonic computing at seeds millions of times faster than current machines" (2015-05-18, unews.utah.edu) [archive.is/7QQ83]
* "Rice scientists use light to probe acoustic tuning in gold nanodisks" (2015-05-07) [web.archive.org/web/20150523034034/http://news.rice.edu/2015/05/07/rice-scientists-use-light-to-probe-acoustic-tuning-in-gold-nanodisks-2]
* "Researchers develop custom artificial membranes with programmable surfaces" (2015-05-07, University of Pennsylvania) [archive.is/uQ55s]
* "The next step in DNA computing: GPS mapping?" (2015-05-06, acs.org) [archive.is/LwBTa]
* "Hydrogels boost ability of stem cells to restore eyesight and heal brains" (2015-05-14, news.engineering.utoronto.ca) [archive.is/3PYZt]
* "Mind Over Matter" (2015-05-21, keck.usc.edu) [archive.is/wkTZX], video [youtube.com/watch?v=lZgeb_HDb48] [begin excerpt]: Paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a gunshot wound when he was 21, Erik G. Sorto now can move a robotic arm just by thinking about it and using his imagination. Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, the now 34-year-old Sorto is the first person in the world to have a neural prosthetic device implanted in a region of the brain where intentions are made, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand-shaking gesture, drink a beverage and even play “rock, paper, scissors,” using a robotic arm. Neural prosthetic devices have previously been implanted in the brain’s movement center, the motor cortex, allowing patients with paralysis to control the movement of a robotic limb. The motion, however, is delayed and jerky. Now, by implanting neuroprosthetics in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a part of the brain that controls not the movement directly but rather the intent to move, Caltech researchers have developed a way to produce more natural and fluid motions. [end excerpt]
* "The Quest to Upload Your Mind Into the Digital Space" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/xfh3L]
* "This Stroke of Genius Could Allow You to Write With Your Brain" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/1weQY]
* "We're Not That Far From Being Able to Grow Human Bones in a Lab" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/vfgrF]
* "Soon, Your Doctor Could Print a Human Organ on Demand" (2015-05, smithsonianmag.com) [archive.is/kEo30]
* "Computers that Mimic the Function of the Brain; A new step forward in memristor technology could bring us closer to brain-like computing" (2015-04-06, mccormick.northwestern.edu) [https://archive.today/bDeh5]
* "Carbon Nanotube Computing? Single-walled carbon nanotube composites show great promise for many things—including use as a material in “unconventional” computing" (2015-04-05, American Institute of Physics) [https://archive.today/Evf33]
* "The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave" (2015-03-02) [actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-ever-photograph-of-light-as-both-a-parti]
* "Robot acquires chef skills via YouTube instructional vids" (2015-01-30, UPI newswire) [archive.today/EwHyC]
* "Russian SAR-401 Space Robot Ready for the ISS" (2015-03-05, Sputnik newswire) [https://archive.today/ZUuxp]
* "Japan's Robear: Strength of a robot, face of a bear" (2015-02-24, AFP newswire) [archive.today/oSMod]
* "Octopus robot makes waves with ultra-fast propulsion" (2015-02-05) [http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2015/Feb/15_21.shtml] [https://archive.today/67d7o]
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* "Half spheres for molecular circuits" (2015-02-16) [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150216064820.htm] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220062819/http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150216064820.htm]: Corannulene is a carbon molecule with a unique shape (similar to the better known fullerene) and promising properties. A team of scientists carried out computer simulations of the molecule’s properties and discovered that it might help overcome the difficulties building molecular circuits (i.e., of the size of molecules).
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* "Researchers Build Atomically-Thin Gas and Chemical Sensors" (2015-02-18) [http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/27258] [https://archive.today/Gd1mB]
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* "Bar-Ilan University Researcher First to Observe “God Particle” Analogue in Superconductors" (2015-02-19) [https://archive.today/nr697]
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* "In the quantum world, the future affects the past; An experiment shows that hindsight and foresight together more accurately ‘predict’ a quantum system’s state than foresight alone" (2015-02-13) [http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/future-affects-past-quantum-state.aspx] [https://archive.today/eL7cN]
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* "X-ray pulses uncover free nanoparticles for the first time in 3D" (2015-02-04) [http://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=719&two_columns=1] [https://archive.today/NiEUd]
X-ray diffraction image of a truncated twinned tetrahedra nanoparticle.
X-ray diffraction image of a truncated octahedra nanoparticle with 200nm diameter.
X-ray diffraction image of a icosahedra nanoparticle with 240nm diameter.
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* "Researchers unveil contact lenses with zoom capabilities" (2015-02-13) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Researchers_unveil_contact_lenses_with_zoom_capabilities_999.html] [https://archive.today/9oySB]
* "See here now: Telescopic contact lenses and wink-control glasses" (2015-02-13) [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/epfd-shn020915.php] [https://archive.today/XH4qe]
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* "Upgraded Atlas Robot to go wireless as the stakes are raised for the DARPA Robotics Challenge" (2015-01-20) [http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2015/01/20.aspx] [https://archive.today/Quq76]
Robots will have to operate completely without wires—they may not be connected to power cords, fall arrestors, or wired communications tethers. Teams will have to communicate with their robots over a secure wireless network.
Teams are not allowed any physical intervention with their robot after it begins a run. If a robot falls or gets stuck, it will have to recover and continue with the tasks without any hands-on assistance. If a robot cannot sustain and recover from a fall, its run will end.
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"Scientists build rice grain-sized laser powered by quantum dots" (2015-01-16) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_build_rice_grain-sized_laser_powered_by_quantum_dots_999.html] [https://archive.today/qqAWt]
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* "Japan researchers target 3D-printed body parts" (2014-12-16) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japan_researchers_target_3D-printed_body_parts_999.html] [https://archive.today/V42PG]
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* "Pipe Dream to Come True? Elon Musk is Set to Build His Hyperloop Test Track" (2015-01-16) [http://sputniknews.com/science/20150116/1016983195.html] [https://archive.today/xDVB2]
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Robots will have to operate completely without wires—they may not be connected to power cords, fall arrestors, or wired communications tethers. Teams will have to communicate with their robots over a secure wireless network.===*===*===
"Scientists build rice grain-sized laser powered by quantum dots" (2015-01-16) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_build_rice_grain-sized_laser_powered_by_quantum_dots_999.html] [https://archive.today/qqAWt]
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* "Japan researchers target 3D-printed body parts" (2014-12-16) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japan_researchers_target_3D-printed_body_parts_999.html] [https://archive.today/V42PG]
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* "Pipe Dream to Come True? Elon Musk is Set to Build His Hyperloop Test Track" (2015-01-16) [http://sputniknews.com/science/20150116/1016983195.html] [https://archive.today/xDVB2]
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an Intelligent Machines move forward through quantum dimensions and pick a better future?
* "The 'human' side of robots at electronics show" (2015-01-09) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_human_side_of_robots_at_electronics_show_999.html] [https://archive.today/qRjtL], [begin excerpt]:
Hello, my name is Chihira Aico. I am 32 years old, although, technically, I was born in September 2014. Look how expressive I am!" she said.
Robots like Toshiba's are becoming so eerily realistic they could be mistaken at first glance for a human. She sings, smiles, raises her hands and has lifelike facial expressions controlled by 15 tiny pneumatic actuators.
These robots are increasingly being developed as personal assistants, companions, hosts and aides for medical situations.
"We made her like a human being because true communication is also based on facial expressions and gestures," said Toshiba's Taihei Yamaguchi.
Yamaguchi said a robot like Chihira Aico could serve as a kind of hostess for the 2020 Olympic Games but the design is aimed for health care, where robots can assist in monitoring and diagnoses.
But in her own words: "In the future, I want to take up the challenge of a wide assignment of tasks: counsellor, newscaster, cheerleader, entertainer and many others!"
[end excerpt]
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. and CLG Founder, interviewed by C. Derick Varn on secularity and the left. What is the new conception of secularity in modernity? How should the left understand and treat religion? Other topics include singulartarians, primitivism, and accelerationism. Click here for interview: [http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/3268867]
Vril Transport's AntiCar [http://vriltransport.org/], archived 2015-01-13 [https://archive.today/6mw3l]
* "Scientists Prove That Telepathic Communication Is Within Reach" (2014-10-02) [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-prove-that-telepathic-communication-is-within-reach-180952868/?no-ist] [https://archive.today/aM4ga]
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* "Study: Brain scans could predict future behavior" (2015-01-07) [http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_Brain_scans_could_predict_future_behavior_999.html] [https://archive.today/m9szq]
* "The History of Phrenology" [http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm] [https://archive.today/vxirf]
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* "Acoustic levitation made simple" (2015-01-05) [http://phys.org/news/2015-01-acoustic-levitation-simple.html] [https://archive.today/Yqu92]
Levitation of expanded polystyrene particles and the simulated standing wave pattern. Credit: M. Andrade/University of São Paulo
* "Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact" (2014-12-22) [http://phys.org/news/2014-12-acoustic-tweezers-cell-to-cell-contact.html] [https://archive.today/RRN1w]
"With present technologies, the generation of a desired cell-to-cell contact is often random or limited in number," said Benkovic. "With standing acoustic waves, precise positioning of cells can be achieved on a multi-cellular level so that planned patterns of cellular arrays can be achieved.
Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact: Micrographs (rendered photographs) of cells arranged in straight lines, globs and triangles. Credit: Tony Jun Huang
* "Hope for dementia patients: Study suggests lost memories can be restored" (2014-12-22) [http://www.interndaily.com/reports/Hope_for_dementia_patients_Study_suggests_lost_memories_can_be_restored_999.html] [https://archive.today/cclXS]
* "IN ONE ASPECT OF VISION, COMPUTERS CATCH UP TO PRIMATE BRAIN" (2014-12-22) [http://science.mit.edu/news/one-aspect-vision-computers-catch-primate-brain] [https://archive.today/gy0Kt]
* "Just Press Print As epoch-making as Gutenberg’s printing press, 3-D printing is changing the shape of the future." (2014-12) [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/3d-printer/smith-text] [https://archive.today/3oeem], [begin excerpt]: A team of Harvard University researchers has printed living tissue interlaced with blood vessels—a crucial step toward one day transplanting human organs printed from a patient’s own cells. [end excerpt]
* "Two quantum mysteries merged into one" (2014-12-20) [http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/141220_wave_particle.php] [https://archive.today/Hs9mZ]
* "Study Unveils New Half-Light Half-Matter Quantum Particles" (2014-12-29) [http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/vinod-menon.cfm] [https://archive.today/V79Hu]
* "Robot named 'Athena' becomes first humanoid robot to pay for a seat on a flight" (2014-12-15) [spacedaily.com/reports/Robot_named_Athena_becomes_first_humanoid_robot_to_pay_for_a_seat_on_a_flight_999.html] [archive.today/kme57]
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* "Scientists have put a worm’s brain into a Lego robot’s body - and it works. The brainwaves of a parasitic roundworm are now driving a Lego robot." (2014-12-12) [http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-scientists-have-put-a-worm-s-brain-into-a-lego-robot-s-body-and-it-works] [https://archive.today/zCNsM]
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* "Squid supplies blueprint for printable thermoplastics" (2014-12-15) [news.psu.edu/story/338374/2014/12/15/research/squid-supplies-blueprint-printable-thermoplastics] [archive.today/O3FVM]. The researchers used recombinant techniques to manufacture the small, synthetic SRT molecule used to produce eco-friendly thermoplastics.
"X-Men mind control becomes a reality" (2014-11-09) [GuerrillaWorldPress.wordpress.com link] [archive.org], and the mainstream media version of the story [archive.today]
"Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'Turing Test' " (2014-11-19) [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/georgia-tech-professor-proposes-alternative-turing-test] [https://archive.today/nYr4g], read the scientific report at [http://www.peeep.us/fe6e6fa7].
* "The 'human' side of robots at electronics show" (2015-01-09) [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_human_side_of_robots_at_electronics_show_999.html] [https://archive.today/qRjtL], [begin excerpt]:
Hello, my name is Chihira Aico. I am 32 years old, although, technically, I was born in September 2014. Look how expressive I am!" she said.Robots like Toshiba's are becoming so eerily realistic they could be mistaken at first glance for a human. She sings, smiles, raises her hands and has lifelike facial expressions controlled by 15 tiny pneumatic actuators.
These robots are increasingly being developed as personal assistants, companions, hosts and aides for medical situations.
"We made her like a human being because true communication is also based on facial expressions and gestures," said Toshiba's Taihei Yamaguchi.
Yamaguchi said a robot like Chihira Aico could serve as a kind of hostess for the 2020 Olympic Games but the design is aimed for health care, where robots can assist in monitoring and diagnoses.
But in her own words: "In the future, I want to take up the challenge of a wide assignment of tasks: counsellor, newscaster, cheerleader, entertainer and many others!"
[end excerpt]
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. and CLG Founder, interviewed by C. Derick Varn on secularity and the left. What is the new conception of secularity in modernity? How should the left understand and treat religion? Other topics include singulartarians, primitivism, and accelerationism. Click here for interview: [http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/3268867]
Vril Transport's AntiCar [http://vriltransport.org/], archived 2015-01-13 [https://archive.today/6mw3l]
* "Scientists Prove That Telepathic Communication Is Within Reach" (2014-10-02) [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-prove-that-telepathic-communication-is-within-reach-180952868/?no-ist] [https://archive.today/aM4ga]
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* "Study: Brain scans could predict future behavior" (2015-01-07) [http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_Brain_scans_could_predict_future_behavior_999.html] [https://archive.today/m9szq]
* "The History of Phrenology" [http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm] [https://archive.today/vxirf]
---
* "Acoustic levitation made simple" (2015-01-05) [http://phys.org/news/2015-01-acoustic-levitation-simple.html] [https://archive.today/Yqu92]
Levitation of expanded polystyrene particles and the simulated standing wave pattern. Credit: M. Andrade/University of São Paulo
* "Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact" (2014-12-22) [http://phys.org/news/2014-12-acoustic-tweezers-cell-to-cell-contact.html] [https://archive.today/RRN1w]
"With present technologies, the generation of a desired cell-to-cell contact is often random or limited in number," said Benkovic. "With standing acoustic waves, precise positioning of cells can be achieved on a multi-cellular level so that planned patterns of cellular arrays can be achieved.
Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact: Micrographs (rendered photographs) of cells arranged in straight lines, globs and triangles. Credit: Tony Jun Huang
* "IN ONE ASPECT OF VISION, COMPUTERS CATCH UP TO PRIMATE BRAIN" (2014-12-22) [http://science.mit.edu/news/one-aspect-vision-computers-catch-primate-brain] [https://archive.today/gy0Kt]* "Just Press Print As epoch-making as Gutenberg’s printing press, 3-D printing is changing the shape of the future." (2014-12) [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/3d-printer/smith-text] [https://archive.today/3oeem], [begin excerpt]: A team of Harvard University researchers has printed living tissue interlaced with blood vessels—a crucial step toward one day transplanting human organs printed from a patient’s own cells. [end excerpt]
* "Two quantum mysteries merged into one" (2014-12-20) [http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/141220_wave_particle.php] [https://archive.today/Hs9mZ]
* "Study Unveils New Half-Light Half-Matter Quantum Particles" (2014-12-29) [http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/vinod-menon.cfm] [https://archive.today/V79Hu]
* "Robot named 'Athena' becomes first humanoid robot to pay for a seat on a flight" (2014-12-15) [spacedaily.com/reports/Robot_named_Athena_becomes_first_humanoid_robot_to_pay_for_a_seat_on_a_flight_999.html] [archive.today/kme57]
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* "Scientists have put a worm’s brain into a Lego robot’s body - and it works. The brainwaves of a parasitic roundworm are now driving a Lego robot." (2014-12-12) [http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-scientists-have-put-a-worm-s-brain-into-a-lego-robot-s-body-and-it-works] [https://archive.today/zCNsM]
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* "Squid supplies blueprint for printable thermoplastics" (2014-12-15) [news.psu.edu/story/338374/2014/12/15/research/squid-supplies-blueprint-printable-thermoplastics] [archive.today/O3FVM]. The researchers used recombinant techniques to manufacture the small, synthetic SRT molecule used to produce eco-friendly thermoplastics.
"X-Men mind control becomes a reality" (2014-11-09) [GuerrillaWorldPress.wordpress.com link] [archive.org], and the mainstream media version of the story [archive.today]
"Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'Turing Test' " (2014-11-19) [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/georgia-tech-professor-proposes-alternative-turing-test] [https://archive.today/nYr4g], read the scientific report at [http://www.peeep.us/fe6e6fa7].
* "Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?" (2014-10-28) [archive.org]
A Day To Emulate Nikola Tesla [http://northbaytopy.blogspot.com/2014/07/to-emulate-nikola-tesla.html]
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