Published in March 30th, 2009
Cnet reports that “Detroit Electric, an auto brand once favored by Thomas Edison, is mounting a 21st century comeback with electric cars aimed at U.S. soccer moms and Chinese city dwellers. ”
But the biggest news is actually buried later in the article:
“Rather than build cars itself, Detroit Electric’s engine and battery pack will [...]
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Published in March 26th, 2009
And of course, once we can re-grow solidier’s limbs, we will also be able to do it for everyone.
From Wired:
“The first phase of the Pentagon’s plan to regrow soldiers’ limbs is complete; scientists managed to turn human skin into the equivalent of a blastema — a mass of undifferentiated cells that can develop into new [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2009
From rdmag:
Researchers at the UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, which can operate at extreme temperatures where no other artificial muscle can be used—from below the temperature of liquid nitrogen (-196°C) to above the melting point of iron (1538°C).
The discovery is reported in the March [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2009
According to cleanrooms online:
“The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 554, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2009, by voice vote. The bill is intended to strengthen and provide transparency in federal research efforts to understand the potential environmental, health, and safety risks of nanotechnology. It is identical to H.R. 5940, which passed [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2009
Oprah’s Dr. Oz just did a segment on longevity and caloric restriction where he said that “There’s one man in Oprah’s audience who may become the first man in history to live to be 150 years old.” Caloric restriction is the only known way at the moment to extend life.
Also, today in the [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2009
My friend RU Sirius is the editor for this new magazine, and the website just went live. It’s a great collection of tech, science, and cultural trends that are changing humans and the world. And, if you are interested, you can see one of my articles in the inaugural issue.
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Published in March 20th, 2009
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication this week to focus solely on the Web, a transition that frightened some in the publishing business, coming so shortly after the Rocky Mountain News shut down. However, as many in the tech industry are aware, this is simply a form of “creative destruction” that should boost both choice [...]
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Published in March 19th, 2009
From Cnet:
“A new machine dubbed the “Black Phantom” can turn biomass into manmade coal.
Carbonscape, a New Zealand-based start-up, describes its invention as an industrial-sized microwave that can cook plant waste, wood waste, and “even sewage” into coal.
Carbonscape also claims that the machine captures and stores more carbon than the amount of carbon generated by the [...]
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Published in March 18th, 2009
Here’s the new Japanese humanoid robot HRP-4C:
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Published in March 18th, 2009
That’s right, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more babies born in 2007 than at any other time in US history. But before anyone starts predicting another massive “baby boom” wave, the experts are saying that it is more of a blip than a trend, especially with the current economy. [...]
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Published in March 16th, 2009
Doctors at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital have seemingly cured some children of a severe peanut allergy by slowly feeding them tiny amounts of peanut flour. “”We’re optimistic that they have lost their peanut allergy,” said lead researcher Wesley Burks, Duke’s allergy chief. “We’ve not seen this before medically. We’ll have [...]
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Published in March 13th, 2009
And guess what? One of them happens to be the topic of the book I am currently writing.
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Published in March 13th, 2009
“Here’s a switch: a new medical technology that can save money in health care, rather than add to costs.
Tim Fischell, in fact, believes the medical device he co-invented to warn people of an impending heart attack, enabling them to get treatment before it occurs, could save millions of dollars annually as well as thousand of [...]
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Published in March 12th, 2009
“Professor George Church and Dr Michael Jewett, of Harvard Medical School, told a synthetic biology conference in Hong Kong that they had synthetically created part of a cell, called a ribosome.
The breakthrough offers hope that they could create an entire cell; something Prof Church believes would be a relatively minor challenge.”
From the Telegraph.
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Published in March 10th, 2009
From Fox News:
“Brain scans showed that participants fell back on higher thought patterns when reacting to religious statements, whether trying to figure out God’s thoughts and emotions or thinking about metaphorical meaning behind religious teachings. That suggests that religion is not a special case of a belief system, but evolved along with other belief [...]
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Published in March 10th, 2009
Surgeons had to remove 6 organs just to get a cancerous tumor out of 7 year-old Heather McNamara’s abdomen. 3 of her 6 organs were found to have cancer, so they replaced her stomach with a pouch and she will be diabetic now that she no longer has a pancreas. Her spleen is [...]
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Published in March 9th, 2009
Here’s new polling data that shows that 15% of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990. America is still a relatively religious country, but the numbers are dropping. Interestingly, the Muslim proportion of the population grew, from 0.3 percent in 1990 to [...]
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Published in March 9th, 2009
Here’s the White House blog post on it. When lifting the ban on government funding of new stem cell lines, President Obama said, “As a person of faith, I believe we are called to care for each other and work to ease human suffering.”
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Published in March 7th, 2009
This would be good news for California researchers and the stem cell area in general. Finally, some change in the right direction.
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Published in March 6th, 2009
The Obama administration is ushering in a new era of big government, higher taxes and more spending, to an extent that even supporters are worried. The tech-savvy president should consider recent suggestions from the technology and science sector, such as the idea that not all problems can be solved by simply throwing money at them.
The [...]
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