Futurists: Superhuman 'Man-machines' coming soon
• Terrence AymFuturists see a new humanity on the horizon. The next stage of evolution, they claim, will not be decided by nature, but by Mankind itself.
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A Military Robot that Does It All
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comiRobot's Warrior is strong enough to tow a car and dexterous enough to open its trunk using the handle.
Attacks on Android Devices Intensify
• David Talbot via TechnologyReview.comRising security incidents and poorly defended phones suggest 2012 could be a risky year for smart-phone users.
Amyris Gives Up Making Biofuels
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comHumbled by production challenges, the company plans to scale back production goals, it told investors Thursday.
Charge Your Phone (and Your Car) from Afar
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comEric Giler points a remote control and three lamps instantly light up and a tablet computer starts charging. The funny thing is, the devices all sit several feet away from the black pad, which provides power, and aren't plugged in.
Tough Times for U.S. EV Battery Makers
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comCompanies need more consumer demand for electric vehicles to grow rapidly.
Memory Strengthened by Stimulating Key Site in Brain
• arcleinThe UCLA team focused on a brain site called the entorhinal cortex. Considered the doorway to the hippocampus, which helps form and store memories, the entorhinal cortex plays a crucial role in transforming daily experience into lasting memories.
Omega 3 and Psychiatric Disorders
• arcleinand Prevention (RAP) Program who have worked with teenagers at risk for serious mental illness for the past decade are now studying the effectiveness of Omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) for treating psychiatric symptoms. This new study is a National In
Severed Nerves Repaired and Restoring Function
• arclein"We have developed a procedure which can repair severed nerves within minutes so that the behavior they control can be partially restored within days and often largely restored within two to four weeks," said Professor George Bittner from the Unive
Flesh Eating Disease Cured with Colloidal Silver
• arcleinWill colloidal silver provide an effective medicinal agent for killing noxious bacterial infections, life-threatening flu viruses and systemic fungal infections? Most likely it will, based on the evidence of the past. Ind
Fracture Putty for Rapid Bone Repair
• arcleinTo start the bone regeneration process, the RBC used adult stem cells that produce a protein involved in bone healing and generation. They then incorporated them into a gel, combining the healing properties into something Stice calls "fracture putty
Making Memories Last
• arcleinHardy, self-copying clusters or oligomers of a synapse protein are an essential ingredient for the formation of long-term memory.
DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
• www.popsci.comBut via technology developed in part with a certain government agency, Washington-based Innovega has created a unique contact lens technology that allows the eye to focus on images projected very close to the eyes as well as objects in the real world
Club Drug Ketamine Cures Depression Instantly
• arcleinglutamate. It blocks the receptors critical for receiving glutamate's signals which quickly improves the brain cell's electrical flow. That in turn reduces depression, according to the NIMH.
Brain Wave Decoding
• arcleinThese scientists have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in the brain's temporal lobe - the seat of the auditory system - as a person listens to normal conversation. Based on this correlation between sound and brain activity, they then were a
Russians drill into previously untouched Lake Vostok below Antarctic glacier
• Washington PostRussian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica. “Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the subglacial lak
10-year-old girl creates new molecule
• Terrence AymScientific breakthroughs seem to be coming faster and from younger people. The latest advance to rock the world of science—molecular research to be exact—comes from Clara Lazen a 10-year-old student at the Border Star Montessori School in Kansas City
The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, January 30-February 3, 2012
• www.popsci.comThis week's Images of the Week gallery includes a cocktail that looks, according to the person who made it, like an "alien brain hemorrhage," we've got the other side of that amazing "blue marble" picture of Earth, we've got a handmade net fort we ar
10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
• www.popsci.comLittle Clara's tetranitratoxycarbon is brand new and explosive
Unraveling Malaria's Genetics
• arcleine it is particularly rich in A's and T's. Because of this A-T-rich nature, P. falciparum genes generally do not function when they are inserted into other organisms. As a result, scientists have been largely stymied when trying to understand the fu
Alzheimer’s Spreads Like a Virus in the Brain, Studies Find
• New York TimesAlzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell, two new studies find. But instead of viruses or bacteria, what is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. The surprising finding answers a longstanding que
White Roof Study in Melbourne
• arcleincommercial buildings in the City of Melbourne would benefit most from this tool. "White roofs can cool commercial buildings by three per cent on hot days, which helps reduce the urban heat island effect and improve the health of city users," Cr
Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea
• Yahoo! News blogSonar readings show that the mysterious object is about 60 meters across, or, about the size of a jumbo jet. And it's not alone. Nearby on the sea floor is another, smaller object with a similar shape. Even more fascinating, both objects have "drag m
Study of freakish mystery illness finds no cause
• APImagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20
Researchers Engineering a Switch to Tame Aggressive Cancers
• arclein"Using 3D time-lapse imaging, the impact of this protein can be visualized and the subsequent effects on cancer cell structure, function and aggressiveness can be monitored in real time for up to 48 hours."
Monkeys Provide Human Malaria Reservoir
• arcleinResearchers led by Professor Balbir Singh at the Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, collaborating with Sarawak State Health Department, St George's University of London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, exa
Fundamental Malaria Discovery
• arcleinstitute discovered that for host-targeted malaria proteins the very first step is binding to the lipid phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, PIP, in the ER.
Unveiling Malaria's Invisibility Cloak
• arcleinThe discovery by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a molecule that is key to malaria's 'invisibility cloak' will help to better understand how the parasite causes disease and escapes from the defenses mounted by the immune sy
Printed Sensors Could Help Save You From Spoiled Food
• Christina Bonnington via WIRED.comWhenever I pick up a package of frozen raw meat from the grocery store, I wonder, “Has this been frozen the whole time? How many times did it thaw and re-freeze?” It’s a disquieting thought, especially because there’s currently no easy way to tell.
iPhone sales drive record quarter for Apple
• The RawStory.comApple blew past forecasts and reported record quarterly net profit and revenue in the first quarter since the death of founder Steve Jobs, driven by strong sales of the new iPhone.
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