Mind transfer: human brains in different materials 02 November 2012 by Randal A. Koene Magazine issue 2888. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the The Big Idea , The Human Brain and Death Topic Guides HUMAN brains and the… Read More ›
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Photon Magnetism Used to Control Light breaks law of time-reversal symmetry: Nanoscale Applications That Use Light Instead of Electricity
Synthetic Magnetism Used to Control Light: Opens Door to Nanoscale Applications That Use Light Instead of Electricity Promise of harnessing light. An advance could yield a new class of nanoscale applications that use light instead of electricity. (Credit: © mrage… Read More ›
U.S. Army Sponsored Artificial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future
10/29/2012 @ 5:12AM |4,088 views In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by… Read More ›
Designer baby warning as embryos are made using TWO women and one man by Oregon scientists
Procedure would swap the nucleus of a mother’s egg containing mutated genes into a donor’s The donor’s normal mitochondria replaces the mother’s defective mitochondria containing mutated DNA Donor’s genes would amount to 1 per cent of the embryo’s genes and… Read More ›
Assembly of Nano-Machines Mimics Human Muscle
Researchers have succeeded in synthesizing an assembly of thousands of nano-machines capable of producing a coordinated contraction movement extending up to around ten micrometers, like the movements of muscular fibers. (Credit: © microcozm / Fotolia) ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2012) —… Read More ›
Robots That Perceive the World Like Humans
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2012) — Perceive first, act afterwards.The architecture of most of today’s robots is underpinned by this control strategy. The eSMCs project has set itself the aim of changing the paradigm and generating more dynamic computer models in… Read More ›
The Internet of Things will transform our everyday: Objects in the home or office will “converse”, understand each other, and share information
Contact: Heikki Ailisto heikki.ailisto@vtt.fi 358-207-222-233 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Internet of Things is the next ICT disruption Information technology and electronics are becoming entwined with our everyday lives in industry, the service sector, transport, logistics, health care, housing,… Read More ›
The Military Is Building Integrated Hybrid Living-Nonliving Robotic Organisms
Geoffrey Ingersoll|Oct. 16, 2012, 12:41 PM|1,624|7 In a request released Sept. 14 of this year, the Office Of Naval Research sought to find proposals for “Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing” — essentially hybrid, organic inorganic “sensing” robots. But… Read More ›
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Wants to Move Your Brain Into the Cloud
Oct 11, 2012 10:34 AM EST By Michael J. Miller Above: Futurist Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and a pioneer of artificial intelligence software, has always been one of the most provocative thinkers on… Read More ›
A complex logic circuit made from bacterial genes
The circuit is designed to act as the controller in synthetic bacteria that monitor and modify their environment . October 12, 2012 By Diana Lutz . . Just as electronic circuits are made from resistors, capacitors and transistors, biological circuits… Read More ›
Team builds most complex synthetic biology circuit yet
Mon, 10/08/2012 – 7:39am Using genes as interchangeable parts, synthetic biologists design cellular circuits that can perform new functions, such as sensing environmental conditions. However, the complexity that can be achieved in such circuits has been limited by a critical… Read More ›
Technology for the body on the road to cyborgs?
October 8, 2012 Sarah Bakewell Speakers at a symposium on body-enhancement technology raised the idea that we may converge with our technology to the point that a superhuman entity emerges. The Terminator … an infamous cyborg. On September 2, 2010,… Read More ›
Training Computers to Understand the Human Brain
The activation maps of the two contrasts (hot color: mammal > tool ; cool color: tool > mammal) computed from the 10 datasets of our participants. (Credit: Image courtesy of Tokyo Institute of Technology) ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2012) — Tokyo… Read More ›
What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 — or 3?
For Immediate Release:October 5, 2012 contact: Caroline McCall, MIT News Office email: cmccall5@mit.edu phone: 617-253-1682 A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ask adults… Read More ›
How synthetic biology will change us
By Alan Boyle October 4, 2012, 7:05 pm NBCNews.com Lisa Poole / AP file Harvard geneticist George Church shows off the DNA sequence of a colleague. In the future, genetically modified organisms could be making our medicines, our fuel, our… Read More ›
Robocop gets real: The remote controlled robot that could put injured police back on the beat
Project aiming to develop a robot controlled remotely by injured officers Officers would control the virtual cop through a virtual reality headset Could be used to patrol nuclear facilities, ports and even urban areas By Daniel Bates PUBLISHED:09:46 EST, 1 … Read More ›
Nanosciences: All Systems Go at the Biofactory: Should furnish a way to develop, construct and utilize designer nanomachines
In order to assemble novel biomolecular machines, individual protein molecules must be installed at their site of operation with nanometer precision. LMU researchers have now found a way to do just that. Green light on protein assembly! (Credit: Image courtesy… Read More ›
Bioengineers Introduce ‘Bi-Fi’ — The Biological ‘Internet’
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) — If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a killer. Once inside it makes itself at home,… Read More ›
Never lose your data again! Hitachi develops glass-based storage system that will last for 100 MILLION years
By John Hutchinson PUBLISHED:15:13 EST, 27 September 2012| UPDATED:15:18 EST, 27 September 2012 Breakthrough: A woman holds up Hitachi’s newly unveiled quartz glass plate technology, which can be used for the indefinite storage of data The developments in recent years… Read More ›
Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing’s centenary
Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer daniel.oppenheimer@utexas.edu 512-745-3353 University of Texas at Austin BotPrize winners score as more human than half their human competitors VIDEO:Under heavy fire from a human judge, UT^2 manages to fight his way to a nearby weapon and obliterate… Read More ›
Neural implants could spark better decisions
18:00 19 September 2012 by Douglas Heaven Magazine issue 2883. Ever wish you could make better choices? That could one day be possible thanks to an electronic brain implant that can enhance short-term memory and decision-making in primates. The implant can… Read More ›
Can we engineer love and morality?
By RICHARD WEIKART The Modesto Bee Published: Sunday, Sep. 16, 2012 – 1:00 am Recently Oxford philosophy professor Julian Savulescu moved his campaign for “moral enhancement” out of the ivory tower and into the mainstream. This month Reader’s Digest… Read More ›
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
By The Christian Science Monitor Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:38 EDT In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out… Read More ›
Slices of brain tissue can store patterns of activity for short periods of time: scientists
By Mo Costandi, The Guardian Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:44 EDT Topics: activity patterns ♦ Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland ♦ Ohio It sounds like the plot of a science fiction film, or like something from a transhumanist fantasy:… Read More ›
A genetic blueprint of your unborn baby
08 September 2012 by Harriet A. Washington Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale – but it also brings dilemmas, says Harriet A. Washington BOY or girl? This you… Read More ›
Smart drugs to ‘moral enhancement’: a chemical approach to transhumanism
By Olivia Solon 06 September 12 Steroids. Ritalin. Modafinil. Prozac. EPO. These are just a selection of drugs that could be described as boosting the cognitive or physical performance of human beings. As part of Wired.co.uk’s Transhuman Week, we take a… Read More ›
Stroke patients get helping hand from ‘telepathic’ robot arm which can respond to your thoughts
By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED:06:24 EST, 3 September 2012| UPDATED:06:24 EST, 3 September 2012 Stroke patients who have lose the use of their arms could find a helping hand in the form of a robotic arm that can ‘telepathically’ respond… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 