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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 September 2011

September 30, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Plastic ‘flying carpet’ takes off >>
* Microbes grow the starship >>
* Artificial leaf converts water into fuel >>

* NASA To Demonstrate Largest-Ever Solar Sail in Space >>
* How NASA Will Harpoon an Asteroid (With Video!) >>
* New shrimp technology could speed up race to feed the world >>

* Cosmic thread that binds us revealed >>
* Lift weights, eat mustard, build muscles? >>
* Scientists discover a ‘master key’ to unlock new treatments for autoimmune disorders >>

* Data-Mining Could Predict Heart Attack Risk >>
* Baby Sharks Birthed in Artificial Uterus >>
* Scientists release most accurate simulation of the universe to date >>

* Pictures and video of Reusable Falcon 9 Spacex Vehicles >>
* Researchers find molecule that stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in cancer >>
* On Futurism >>

* First Energy-Storage Membrane >>
* First Use of Atom Interferometer to Measure Aircraft Acceleration >>
* Computational biomarkers can identify at-risk heart attack victims >>

* Eating your greens alters your genes >>
* Cocoon Nebula Wide Field >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 September 2011

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* Scientists developing “stay-sober pill” >>
* Nissan Developing Mind-Reading Cars That Anticipate Drivers’ Next Moves and Act Accordingly >>

* Wi-Fi networks could detect your breathing and pinpoint your location >>
* Amazon Kindle Fire impressions (video) >>

* Army Developing Drones That Can Recognize Your Face From a Distance >>
* What would really happen if you nuked a volcano? [Video] >>
* Ice Cream Sandwich gets a two-minute tour, courtesy of a lucky eBay shopper (video) >>

* The forever recession (and the coming revolution) >>
* Andrew Maynard Emerging Technologies and Sustainability: What’s risk got to do with it? >>

* Top 10 Programming Languages >>
* Skype update for iOS adds anti-shake, Bluetooth connectivity and ads for freeloaders >>
* Why does the Earth have a liquid core? [Starts With A Bang] >>

* BullDog: A Bigger, Scarier Version of BigDog Gets Closer to the Battlefield >>
* Europe Launches $41-Million Project to Map Human Epigenome >>
* FYI: Can Wireless Electricity Kill People? >>

* City-Size Neutron Stars Collide, Unleash Radio Shockwaves >>
* Colleges struggle with students’ data demand >>
* LHC Discovers the Proton’s Big “Ego” >>

* Why the highest-paid doctors are the most vulnerable to automation. >>
* Millesecond memory: ‘Teleportation’ of rats sheds light on how the memory is organized >>
* Transplants entering era of restoring pre-injury form and function >>

* Rare monster star has spewed four suns >>
* ‘Darker Than Black’ Metamaterial Promises Better Solar Cells >>
* Violent Sunspot Group AR 1302 Unleashes a Flare >>

* Fermilab stops hunting Higgs, starts neutrino quest >>
* ‘Light-speed’ neutrinos point to new physical reality >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 September 2011

September 28, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum >>
* 100 trillion graphene wall field-effect transistors could fit on a single chip >>
* Richard Hammond’s Journey To The Centre of the Planet >>

* A Machine-Driven Way to the Stars >>
* Disney Appmates ‘Cars’ toys mean parents may never see their iPads again (video) >>
* Firefox 7 now officially available, promises ‘significantly’ reduced memory usage >>

* Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science >>
* New ‘FeTRAM’ memory uses 99 percent less energy than flash memory >>
* Video: Coffee-Powered Car Sets Land Speed Record >>

* Robot Birds and Octoroaches On The Loose at UC Berkeley [Video] >>
* Video: Watch the JSF’s New Cruise Missile Acquire and Engage a Naval Target >>
* Birds can learn to build a better nest [Video] >>

* Future Shock Levels >>
* Researchers uncover secrets of ‘miracle fruit’ >>
* ‘Invasion’ moved mammals from egg to womb >>

* Stacking graphene changes its electrical properties >>
* Something in the Way You Move: Cameras May Soon Recognize Criminals by Their Gait [Video] >>
* Brain needs serotonin to restrain aggression >>

* Spies could hide messages in gene-modified microbes >>
* Welcome to the genomic revolution >>
* The Coming Global Age of the Old and Decrepit >>

* Wireless network can watch your breathing >>
* One third of sun-like stars have earth sized planets >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 September 2011

September 27, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Dead Sea Scrolls available online >>
* Wireless Health Care >>
* YouTube to get regularly scheduled channels, try on traditional TV suit? >>

* Smart clothing: memory-storing fiber could lead to smart fabrics and wearable electronics >>
* Seeking the True Shape of Peak Oil >>
* Implications of Computerized Intelligence on Interstellar Travel >> >>

* Piezoelectric Remote Control Changes Channels When You Bend It >>
* Robert Wilson, the Gun-Toting Physicist Who Helped Give Us the Particle Accelerator [Video] >>
* River Basins Could Double Food Production: Study >>

* Using light to create a safer, more reliable pacemaker >>
* New mathematical model to enable web searches for meaning >>
* Are we fooling ourselves with faster-than-light neutrinos? [Starts With A Bang] >>

* Researchers Create Invisible Ink From Engineered Bacteria >>
* Space storms to pose greater risk to flyers and astronauts >>
* Lasers Spark Breakthrough in Neuron Regeneration >>

* Can you live on $9 an hour? >>
* New Design Photos for the Proposed Mach 4 or 5 Zero Emission High Speed Transport >>
* A brief history of the brain >>

* The end of the quantum road? >>
* ORNL discovers amazing electrical properties in polymers >>
* Nanoantenna separates colors of light >>

* Dry Ice Pits on Mars >>
* One-Minute Physics: Is Schrödinger’s cat dead or alive? >>
* Sphero, The Robot Ball You Control With Your Phone, Is Getting Ready To Roll Into Your Home >>

* Chinese Space Program Takes Giant Leap >>
* Structure of a molecular copy machine: How mitochondrial genes are transcribed >>
* An App to Track Your Heart Pressure >>

* Astronomers Discover New Standard Candle >>
* Nanotech and gold wiring lead to engineered heart >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 September 2011

September 25, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough >>
* Ever wonder what fire is? Or what a flame looks like in microgravity? >>
* Robotic benefits could accelerate into the service and software industries >>

* Warped Physics: 10 Effects of Faster-Than-Light Discovery >>
* A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun >>
* Light pulses keep heart cells beating >>

* Shape memory materials ready for mass production >>
* Simple nanoantenna that directs red and blue colours in opposite directions >>
* A Spinal Cord Implant Harvests Wireless Energy >>

* 243 full human genomes sequenced per second >>
* Facebook Timeline Shows Who Has Unfriended You >>
* Mangaia’s Milky Way >>
* Resurrected ancient protein is a potent antibiotic >>

* More SENS5 Conference Materials >>
* Smart jeans: A cause for concern? >>
* Physicists Devise Perfect Magnetic Shield >>

* NASA will fly laser communication that is 100 times faster than todays space communication >>
* Protein ’switches’ could turn cancer cells into tiny chemotherapy factories >>
* The First Law of Complexodynamics >>

* World’s Oldest Running Car Up For Sale >>
* Australian Police Want Aerial Surveillance Drones to Track License Plates and Monitor Cars of Interest >>
* Floating ‘vacuum’ probes cell behavior >>

* NASA to demonstrate communications via laser beam >>
* Tiny bubbles burn just fine >>
* OPERA neutrino experiment on breaking speed of light — webcast >>

* Holographic radar has tracked supersonic 5 inch shells >>
* In development: a vaccine for acne >>
* September’s Aurora >>

* Open Source AI Engine – AGI-11 Conference >>
* Possibilities around the faster than light CERN neutrino experiment >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 September 2011

September 23, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* A faster-than-light particle? Astounding! >>
* Light-speed results baffle at LHC >>
* This Extraordinary Claim Requires Extraordinary Evidence! >>

* Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind >>
* Breakthrough Could Enable Others to Watch Your Dreams and Memories [Video] >>

* Toyota demos Prius’ proximity notification system, touts ‘futuristic’ purr (video) >>
* Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed >>
* xkcd: Neutrinos >>

* $500 Billion TV Market New Battlefield For Internet Companies >>
* RED Founder Teases Laser-Based 4K Projector >>
* NTT DoCoMo’s mobile accessories smell your breath, tell you to put the burger down (video) >>

* Two apps that show the depth of what Facebook shipped today >>
* Floating island nation is a great place to escape from the world >>
* The Military’s Airship Renaissance Deflates Over Lack of Access to Helium >>
* Slipperiest substance in the world comes from killer plants >>

* Cloaking magnetic fields: First antimagnet developed >>
* Scientists make virus discovery >>
* Radiation boost for artificial joints >>

* Researchers find gut bacteria teaches immune cells to see them as friendly >>
* Futureseek Daily Paper is out! >>
* Stanford engineers create nanoscale nonlinear light source >>

* Electrons surf between qubits >>
* Physicists Devise Perfect Magnetic Shield >>
* Trial begins into stem cell treatment for sight loss >>

* Facebook Timeline tells ‘story of your life’ >>
* Marijuana could prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms >>
* UC San Diego biologists discover genes that repair nerves after injury >>

* Video: Goertzel presents open-source AI engine at AGI-11 conference >>
* Missing planet explains solar system’s structure >>
* Could laser propulsion open up space? >>

* Will the universe end in a big snap? >>
* Great Convergence and IMF growth forecasts >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 September 2011

September 22, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Today in 3-D Printing: Musical Instruments and Instruments of War >>
* Is Printing A Gun The Same As Buying A Gun? >>
* Mars trips could blind astronauts >>
* Cells Repairing Themselves >>

* Texting a Computer Instead of a Cellphone >>
* Ultrasound for Mind Reading >>
* Gadgetwise Blog: YouTube Will Now Convert Videos to 3D >>
* Windows 8 ditches ’80s BIOS boot for streamline UEFI >>

* Searching for New Ideas >>
* Brain Power Boosted With Electrical Stimulation >>
* Faster, smaller and more economical gallium nitride transistor technology >>

* Proton Transistor Could Help Machines and Organisms Communicate >>
* The Megapad is a ridiculous 23-inch Android ‘tablet’ >>
* New Theory on World Trade Center Collapse Blames Explosive Chemical Reaction >>

* Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the Universe? >>
* Scientists get first detailed look at nitrogen doping in single-layer graphene >>
* Scientists can now ‘see’ how different parts of our brain communicate >>

* High speed charging device – success in high capacity graphene-based supercapacitors >>
* Friday Forecast: Sunny, with 1-in-21-Trillion Chance of Getting Hit by Orbital Debris >>

* New ‘smart window’ system with unprecedented performance >>
* Scientists play ping-pong with single electrons >>
* Adobe Hopes Impressive 3-D Graphics Can Save Flash 11 >>

* A future for drones: automated killing >>
* Technology listens as doctors keep talking >>
* ‘Inexhaustible’ source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water >>
* Pleiades Deep Field >>

* Smart arms for a robot give it smooth moves >>
* Fountain-of-youth enzyme doesn’t extend life after all >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 September 2011

September 21, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Limitless hydrogen from microbes >>
* Waste Water + Bacteria = Clean Energy >>
* Scientists turn back the clock on adult stem cells aging >>

* See It To Believe It: This Camera App Pastes Another Person’s Face Onto Your Own >>
* First controlled vertical flight of a biologically inspired microrobot >>
* A Computer Model Of The Entire World >>

* Researchers convert soundwaves into electromagnetic energy, silence no longer golden >>
* NVIDIA releases Kal-El a fifth ‘Companion’ core for less demanding tasks >>
* New Transistor Could Let Chips Interface With Living Systems >>

* Researchers Successfully Hack SSL >>
* Video: Padzilla Case Turns Your iPad Into An iCoffeeTable >>
* The body rids itself of damage when it really matters >>

* Gang Used 3D Printers for ATM Skimmers >>
* Hangout Academy Will Turn Google+ Hangouts into Education Platform >>
* Eating Plants May Change Our Cells >>

* Robot nominated to carry Olympic flame >>
* Serotonin Levels Help Regulate Anger, Aid Brains Emotional Communication >>
* Robot-assisted plants find their place in the sun >>

* Free will and quantum clones: how your choices today affect the universe at its origin >>
* Kepler-16b: A Planet with Two Suns >>
* Sonia Arrison Brings Longevity To the Masses With Her Book 100+ >>

* How Dark Matter Messes with Our Galaxy [Video] >>
* Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light >>
* The Science of Complexity >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 September 2011

September 20, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Video Tuesday: BigDog, MABEL, and Quadrotors Landing on Quadrotors >>
* Google Wallet official launch >>

* Could robot tractors revolutionize agriculture? >>
* MSI shows voice-controlled motherboard approach at IDF >>
* Artificial Fingerprints Help Robots Distinguish Shapes >>

* Intel: Ivy Bridge GPU to support 4K resolutions >>
* Scientists attempt to give spark of life to all-synthetic metal cells >>
* Going Nuclear: How Stars Die [Starts With A Bang] >>

* Brainlink lets you control your toy robots, Roombas, before they control you (video) >>
* Robotic schools of fish made from 3D printers will patrol for water pollution >>
* Aurora from Above: Space Station Crew Sees Southern Lights >>

* Wireless Network Accurately and Inexpensively Monitors Patients’ Breathing >>
* This Is the Internet [Internet] >>
* A well-rounded life for an electron spin >>

* Seeing Inside Tears >>
* Engineers use short ultrasound pulses to reach neurons through blood-brain barrier >>
* Video: Inside the wired classroom: Learning with iPads >>
* Installed cost of solar photovoltaic systems declined significantly in 2010/2011 >>

* Intel runs PC on CPU powered by solar cell >>
* Smartphone brain scanner >>
* The cyborg in us all >>

* One-Minute Physics: What is dark matter? >>
* Gel shines bright to spot bacteria >>
* Watch Surgeons Remove Glowing Cancer Cells From a Patient’s Ovary >>

* Robots are coming to aircraft assembly >>
* Nanowires are a step towards photonic chip >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 September 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 September 2011

September 19, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta >>
* Richard Resnick, Welcome to the genomic revolution TEDxBoston >>
* Gamers Piece Together Retrovirus Enzyme Structure >>

* Mechanical force splits molecule that cannot otherwise be split >>
* Ben Goertzel Inorganic Macrocell Bots — A New Start for Intelligent Robotics? >>
* Read/write your own genetic code >>

* Researchers Announce a Breakthrough on HIV/AIDS Treatment >>
* MIT Media Lab experiments with 3D printing using recycled materials >>
* Flying Robot Plays Catch and Holds Key For Efficient Systems >>

* Lego’s augmented reality at IDF, eyes-on (video) >>
* Why Yes, Ma’am, This Airbus A380 Was Printed On Demand By a Computer [Past Perfect] >>

* What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? >>
* Links for 2011-09-18 >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 September 2011 >>