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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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Nanohealing Material Heads to Market
A startup is planning human trials for a nanostructured material that quickly stops bleeding.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-13  0 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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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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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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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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Information Technology and Technological Unemployment
The first premise – the correct one — is that work of low skill and low productivity will disappear.
3 votes  by arcange1m  on 2008-05-03  0 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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Where Are They?
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
By Nick Bostrom
3 votes  by wal  on 2008-04-28  0 comments   
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The man who grew a finger
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-02  1 comment   
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Warm biostasis through nanotechnology
The procedures of cryoprotectant perfusion, cryogenic cooldown, long term care, rewarming, and resuscitation may often involve (unintended) imperfections that will require advanced cell repair technologies for successful resuscitation. Advanced nanotechnology could produce a form of biostasis that avoids such consequences of contemporary chemical fixation.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-05-02  0 comments   
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Very small stem cells could help the body repair age-related damage
A new class of very small, stem-like cells scattered throughout the body could be involved in repair and rejuvenation throughout the lifespan.
2 votes  by mycophage  on 2008-05-01  0 comments   
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MySpace - Ending Aging Owner's Challenge!
I will donate a 1000 $ for SENS research under the name "A Fan of Aubrey de Grey’s work" after we receive 50 photos from myspace members from around the world!
2 votes  by wal  on 2008-04-30  0 comments   
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Future Lithography : or is Moore's Law still the law? Yes it is
Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has decided that extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography will not be production-worthy by 2011 when Intel plans to begin manufacturing 22 nm microprocessors, said Mark Bohr, director of process architecture and integration at Intel's logic technology development group.
2 votes  by wal  on 2008-04-30  0 comments   
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Nanodiamonds 100 times cheaper, track cells in the body and deliver drugs and genes
Taiwanese scientists have found a way to slash the cost of making the diamond chips by around 100 times to $300 per 10 milligrams
2 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-04-29  0 comments   
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GNA: Glycerol nucleic acid, synthetic version of DNA a new nanotechnology building block
The first self-assembled nanostructures composed entirely of glycerol nucleic acid (GNA, —a synthetic analog of DNA)have been made. New structures from alternative to DNA able to take higher temperatures and other slightly different features
2 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-04-29  0 comments   
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