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Sporting nanobot to inspire kids
A tiny football-playing robot has been developed by a team in Zurich to spark young people's interest in nanotechnology - and with the hope of leading to pioneering medical treatments.

The robot, made out of nickel and powered by magnetic fields, is just 300 microns wide - about the width of three hairs.
1 votes  by rmijic  on 2008-05-13  0 comments   
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Henry Markram on Talking Robots
Henry Markram talks about Blue Brain and the prospects for future large scale neural simulations.
3 votes  by kurzweils_brain  on 2008-05-11  2 comments   
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Nanoworms used to fight cancer
3 votes  by tyrhaynes  on 2008-05-12  0 comments   
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Transhumanism vs. Trans-Systemism
Exploring the future relevance of the transhumanist philosophy.
1 votes  by rozite  on 2008-05-12  0 comments   
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What's in Your Genes? You Don't Want to Know -- Yet.
The primary caution about genetic testing has usually been that you will learn that you are destined to develop some dreadful disease (such as Huntington's disease) for which there is no known therapy. A positive test only allows you to start worrying about your demise earlier. Do you really want to know?
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-12  0 comments   
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David Deutsch Speaks With Aubrey de Grey About Sens (video)
Renowned Quantum Physicist, and father of the Quantum Computer, David Deutsch (www.qubit.org) speaks with Aubrey de Grey about the scientific details, and feasability of life extension technology SENS, filmed in the Natural History Museum, Oxford,.
3 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-05-11  0 comments   
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Bots that play Pocker online for money
Well, I'm here to tell you that online poker bots are 100% real, and I know this because I've built one. And if I can build one, well. Anybody can build one.
3 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-10  2 comments   
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Protein Folding as a Game
A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory levels teach the rules, which are the same laws of physics by which protein strands curl and twist into 3D shapes -- key for biological mysteries ranging from Alzheimer's to vaccines.
4 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-08  3 comments   
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Tracking progress to controlling light, life and matter
Towards room temperature superconductors, new forms of matter, finer slices of time and measurement with attosecond lasers
2 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-05-10  0 comments   
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I am a Transhumanist, Thanks
To anyone confident about their own ideas, and unafraid of naysayers, the answer is a no-brainer: transhumanism.
6 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-04  0 comments   
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Virtual reality could explain the Fermi Paradox
There is a possibility that any civilization that becomes advanced enough discovers that physical reality cannot hold a candle to virtual reality and makes the transition (alien transubstantiation, to coin a phrase). This could explain why they haven’t colonized the galaxy, or why we aren’t bathed in their radio communications.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter
Fluid intelligence was previously thought to be genetically hard-wired, but the finding suggests that with about 25 minutes of rigorous mental training a day, healthy adults could improve their mental capacities.
6 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-02  0 comments   
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HP lab's new memristor could help with pattern recognition and AI
Memristor will make computers more energy efficient and faster, but should also enable highly efficient pattern recognition and pattern memory in circuits. Retention/memory as a fundamental component. As computer designs get adjusted to take advantage of this over the next 5-9 years.
5 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-04-30  2 comments   
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Interviewe with Peter Thiel - 'Technology Is at the Center'
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress
5 votes  by wal  on 2008-04-30  0 comments   
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Letter from Utopia
The good life: just how good could it be? A vision of the future from the future, by Nick Bostrom.
6 votes  by rmijic  on 2008-04-23  2 comments   
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Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project?
A new study finds up to 250 regions where the reference genome sequenced over 13 years may be missing information
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Superbug Genome Sequenced: Steno Has Remarkable Capacity For Drug Resistance
The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Discovery Of New Cancer Gene
The gene and its protein, both called RBM3, are vital for cell division in normal cells. In cancers, low oxygen levels in the tumors cause the amount of this protein to go up dramatically. This causes cancer cells to divide uncontrollably, leading to increased tumor formation.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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NASA's new supercomputer aims for 10 PFLOPS by 2012
SGI and Intel Corp. are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the PFLOPS barrier next year and hit 10 PFLOPS by 2012. A petaflop is a quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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