Simple Cheap Mass Production for Graphene
• arcleinas the most important synthetic material in a century. Sheets conduct electricity better than copper, heat better than any material known, are harder than diamonds yet stretch.
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AI robot: How machine intelligence is evolving
• By Marcus du Sautoy, The ObserverNo computer can yet pass the ‘Turing test’ and be taken as human.
First evidence for string theory at the Large Hadron Collider
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Jon ButterworthA bug in the software used to model the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider could have been covering up evidence for extra space time dimensions.
Spectacular Brain Images Reveal Surprisingly Simple Structure
• http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie PappasStunning new visuals of the brain reveal a deceptively simple pattern of organization in the wiring of this complex organ.
EV Headwinds
• arclein"I just want a car that works," Kluth said. "It's a fun car to drive. It's just that I've lost confidence in it." The Karma's problems -- one vehicle died during testing by Consumer Reports this month -- follow bad publicity arising from a
100 fold Improvement for Electron Microscopes
• arcleinResearchers at the University of Sheffield have created what sounds impossible - even nonsensical: an experimental electron microscope without lenses that not only works, but is orders of magnitude more powerful than current models. By means of a new
Male Baldness Clue Discovered
• arcleinThey found levels of a key protein called prostaglandin D synthase are elevated in the cells of hair follicles located in bald patches on the scalp, but not in hairy areas. Mice bred to have high levels of the protein went completely bald, while t
How Seagate's Terabit-Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive Works
• Prachi Patel via TechnologyReview.comMagnetic hard disks will soon be able to store one terabit (a trillion bits) per square inch. Seagate has demonstrated that landmark storage density using a new magnetic recording method
Video: Face-Recognition System Can Sort Through 36 Million Faces Per Second
• Paul Adams via PopSci.comDiginfo brings us news of this Hitachi Kokusai system that can monitor video feeds from around the world in real time, scanning for a particular face. When it finds what it's looking for, it closes in to provide footage
World’s first ALL-diamond, 150-carat ring created by Swiss jeweler
• The SideshowSwitzerland's Shawish Jewelry has created the world's first diamond ring. Not impressed? Well, consider that the entire ring is carved from a diamond, whereas most other diamond rings are composed of a precious-metal band with a diamond centerpie
Gold Jumps Fuel Cell Effectiveness
• arcleinAdvances in fuel-cell technology have been stymied by the inadequacy of metals studied as catalysts. The drawback to platinum, other than cost, is that it absorbs carbon monoxide in reactions involving fuel cells powered by organic materials like
Vaccination Strategy May Hold Key to Ridding HIV Infection From Immune System
• arcleinIn his new study, Siliciano showed that infected T cells survived after latent virus was reactivated, and were only killed off when other immune system T cells were primed
New Breed of 'Nuclear Clocks' Could be 100 Times More Accurate than Today's Atomic Timek
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comAn international team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, the University of Nevada, and Georgia Tech have propsed a new kind of atomic timekeeper that wouldn’t lose or gain 1/20th of a second in 14 billion years
Innovative Cancer Research
• arcleinStarve a tumour of its blood supply to kill it: That’s the long-held and widely accepted theory in cancer treatment. But what if you instead fed that tumour and let it grow? Dr. Pickering’s theory is that if you increase the blood supply to the tumo
Radio wave vortex can 'infinitely' boost bandwidth capacity
• Terrence AymWith the explosion of wireless devices during the last decade, radio engineers have been increasingly concerned that soon the world will run out of bandwith. Mobile phones and handheld devices like PDAs, Android, and iPads, not to mention notepads, n
How Marijuana Impairs Memory
• arcleinThe findings offer important new insight into the brain and raise the possibility that marijuana's benefits for the treatment of pain, seizures and other ailments might some day be attained without hurting memory,
Antimatter Mystery Deepens
• arcleinPhysicists had already seen such differences - known as called "CP violation". But these known differences are much too small to explain why the Universe appears to prefer matter over anti-matter.
Dawn Forest Reconstructed
• arclein"Those trees were covered in little branches which sprung out in all directions and made a sort of thicket on the floor of the forest," Berry said. "That was a big surprise." The researchers also found a fragment of a third type of tree, lycop
Japanese Giant Builds Computer Memory With Light
• Eric Smalley via WIRED.comA piece of the future internet has surfaced in a lab in Japan: a memory chip that stores bits of light
Curing PTSD
• arcleinPeople who survive a painful event should express their feelings soon after so the memory isn’t “sealed over” and repressed, which could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. In recent years, CISD has be
Flatworm Immortality
• arcleinThe researchers found that flatworms can continuously maintain the length of a crucial part of their DNA, known as telomeres, during regeneration. Dr Aboobaker's team studied two types of planarian – those that reproduce sexually, like humans, an
The NSA Builds a Super-secure Android Device
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comThe prototypes, code-named "Fishbowl", make encrypted calls, and may be emulated by handset manufacturers.
Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can't We Do Better than Intercontinental Fiber Optic Cabl
• Clay DillowOn Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa wandered into a restricted area and dropped its anchor, inadvertently severing a major undersea Internet and phone link to East Africa.
Chinese Drones Will Use Genetic Algorithms to Learn to Hunt For Submarines
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comChina usually holds its military hand very close to the vest-things “mysteriously” leak that it doesn’t (does) want the world to know about--so we wonder why the People’s Republic has decided to publish this in the journal Advanced Materials Research
New Neural Interfaces Can Bring True Feeling to Artificial Limbs
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comNew plastic scaffolds attached to prosthetic devices could enable nerves to feel and control artificial limbs, using electrical signals to bring back real sensations.
Shoe Power
• arcleinLet us consider the case of the film stack with the capacitance of 16 nF cm−2. The average generated power calculated using equation (2) is shown in Figure 3b. The average power per foot can exceed 2 W for bias voltages in excess of 35 V and 10
Unlimited human eggs 'potential' for fertility treatment
• By James GallagherIt may be possible to one day create an "unlimited" supply of human eggs to aid fertility treatment, US doctors say.
Digital Technology Preserving Living Languages
• arcleinNow schools and area universities are using digital technology to promote Anishinaabemowin, with a web site, http://www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/ that includes traditional poems put to music, the informal anthem of the American Indian movement, and a transl
Myth of Eight Hours of Sleep
• arcleinIt took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
Clinical Trials for Whip Worm Therapy
• arcleinBased on this hygiene hypothesis, researchers at the University of Iowa wanted to find a safe parasite—one that wasn't known to cause infection or illness in humans—for therapeutic purposes. This type of treatment is known as helminthic treatment, o
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