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A Robot That Learns to Use Tools
The robot--called the UMass Mobile Manipulator, or UMan--pushes objects around on a table to see how they move. Once it identifies an object's moving parts, it begins to experiment with it, manipulating it to perform tasks.
4 votes  by wildcat  on 2008-07-04  1 comment   
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New completely nonnatural DNA created in Japan
To those who don't believe in a Tech Singularity - really ? behind schedule ? no progress ? I have to specify which artificial DNA. Stable artificial DNA (double and triple strand) that could be used to improve genetic engineering and molecular computers and memory. Different from the recent creation of GNA and two new base letters.
3 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-07-03  0 comments   
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Singular Sensations
The popularity of the term "Singularity" has undermined its narrative value. Its use in a discussion is almost guaranteed to become the focus of a debate, one that rarely changes minds. This is especially unfortunate because the underlying idea is, in my view, a useful tool for thinking about how we'll face the challenges of the 21st century.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-07-03  0 comments   
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Teaching futurism to children and teens
Talking about the future, inspires young children, stimulates their imagination—and then as they grow and become young adults, they’ll still have that foundation within to call on as they must make important and sometimes painful life decisions.
3 votes  by megapolisomancy  on 2008-07-02  0 comments   
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Gene Editing Could Make Anyone Immune to AIDS
Some people have a mutation that makes them amazingly resistant to HIV -- and now, scientists may have found a way to give that immunity to anyone.
5 votes  by wal  on 2008-07-01  0 comments   
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'Smart' materials get smarter with ability to better control shape and size
A dynamic way to alter the shape and size of microscopic three-dimensional structures built out of proteins has been developed by biological chemist Jason Shear and his former graduate student Bryan Kaehr at The University of Texas at Austin.
1 votes  by wildcat  on 2008-07-04  0 comments   
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The Fight to End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding
Less than a decade ago, de Grey was a relatively unknown computer scientist doing his own research into aging. Now, though, some scientists are beginning to view his approach looking at aging as a disease and bringing in more disciplines into gerontology as worthwhile, even if they still look askance at his claims of permanent reversible aging.
7 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-06-26  1 comment   
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Evolutionary theories of aging, as applied to lifespan extension
Multiple factors contribute to aging, including the accumulation of molecular damage, but also the failure of organisms to adapt to their age-specific "fitness landscape". A prominent evolutionary biologist and theorist of aging argues that successful lifespan extension will require attention to the factors that determine these age-specific losses in fitness.
2 votes  by mycophage  on 2008-07-02  0 comments   
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Why the Future Is Non-Algorithmic
There has been a lot of talk lately about how the use of multiple concurrent threads is considered harmful by a growing number of experts. I think the problem is much deeper than that.
2 votes  by wal  on 2008-07-01  0 comments   
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Quarter of the planet to be online by 2012
Researchers are predicting that one quarter of the world's population will be connected to the internet within the next four years..

According to the report by Jupiter Research, the total number of people online will climb to 1.8 billion by 2012, encompassing roughly 25 percent of the planet.
2 votes  by wildcat  on 2008-06-27  2 comments   
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Right and wrong lessons from biology
The right lessons for nanotechnology to learn from biology might not always be the obvious ones, but there’s no doubting their importance. Can the traffic ever go the other way – will there be lessons for biology to learn from nanotechnology?
4 votes  by megapolisomancy  on 2008-06-27  0 comments   
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Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores'
Intel currently offers quad-core processors and is expected to bring out a Nehalem processor in the fourth quarter that uses as many as eight cores.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-07-02  0 comments   
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Want to Enhance Your Brain Power?
Research hints that electrically stimulating the brain can speed learning.
3 votes  by wal  on 2008-06-28  0 comments   
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Report: Microsoft to buy Powerset
2 votes  by rmijic  on 2008-06-26  2 comments   
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Just Another Death?
As a society, we still see death as inevitable. As a result, there is just no respect for human life.
2 votes  by stuartdobson  on 2008-06-28  0 comments   
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Cheap $5 test for drug resistant tuberculosis: could save 1.5 million lives per year
A molecular test developed by Hain Lifescience and Innogenetics (INNX.BR) represents a big breakthrough in the fight against tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory ailment that kills 1.5 million people a year. The WHO is deploying to a dozen countries and has efforts to make second-line antibiotics more affordable, should increase to 15% the proportion of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis who are diagnosed and treated appropriately. (now 2%.) TB #2 infectious disease. Aids #1.
1 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-07-01  0 comments   
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DNA damage as a cause of aging
Does DNA damage cause aging, and if so, how? Two recent articles by a prominent scholar in the field conclude that a dangerous sort of DNA damage known as double-strand breaks (DSBs) are causative forces in aging -- and that the body's defenses against DSBs evolved primarily as a defense against aging, not cancer.
5 votes  by mycophage  on 2008-06-19  0 comments   
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Abstracts for the Anti-aging conference this weekend
Some of the abstracts for the 30 talks and 20 posters at the understanding aging conference at UCLA this weekend. Links go to pages with all of the abstracts.
2 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-06-27  0 comments   
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The End of the Scientific Method
"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
3 votes  by arcange1m  on 2008-06-24  0 comments   
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