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Virtual reality could explain the Fermi Paradox
There is a possibility that any civilization that becomes advanced enough discovers that physical reality cannot hold a candle to virtual reality and makes the transition (alien transubstantiation, to coin a phrase). This could explain why they haven’t colonized the galaxy, or why we aren’t bathed in their radio communications.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project?
A new study finds up to 250 regions where the reference genome sequenced over 13 years may be missing information
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Superbug Genome Sequenced: Steno Has Remarkable Capacity For Drug Resistance
The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Discovery Of New Cancer Gene
The gene and its protein, both called RBM3, are vital for cell division in normal cells. In cancers, low oxygen levels in the tumors cause the amount of this protein to go up dramatically. This causes cancer cells to divide uncontrollably, leading to increased tumor formation.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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NASA's new supercomputer aims for 10 PFLOPS by 2012
SGI and Intel Corp. are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the PFLOPS barrier next year and hit 10 PFLOPS by 2012. A petaflop is a quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-09  0 comments   
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Protein Folding as a Game
A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory levels teach the rules, which are the same laws of physics by which protein strands curl and twist into 3D shapes -- key for biological mysteries ranging from Alzheimer's to vaccines.
3 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-08  2 comments   
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I am a Transhumanist, Thanks
To anyone confident about their own ideas, and unafraid of naysayers, the answer is a no-brainer: transhumanism.
5 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-04  0 comments   
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Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter
Fluid intelligence was previously thought to be genetically hard-wired, but the finding suggests that with about 25 minutes of rigorous mental training a day, healthy adults could improve their mental capacities.
6 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-02  0 comments   
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HP lab's new memristor could help with pattern recognition and AI
Memristor will make computers more energy efficient and faster, but should also enable highly efficient pattern recognition and pattern memory in circuits. Retention/memory as a fundamental component. As computer designs get adjusted to take advantage of this over the next 5-9 years.
5 votes  by brianwang  on 2008-04-30  2 comments   
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Information Technology and Technological Unemployment
The first premise – the correct one — is that work of low skill and low productivity will disappear.
3 votes  by arcange1m  on 2008-05-03  0 comments   
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PETA offers "X-Prize" for Test Tube Meat
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat — even if it has caused a “near civil war” within the organization.
8 votes  by iwdw  on 2008-04-21  3 comments   
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S Korea trains sniffer-dog clones
The world's first cloned sniffer dogs have begun training in South Korea.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-07  0 comments   
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Letter from Utopia
The good life: just how good could it be? A vision of the future from the future, by Nick Bostrom.
6 votes  by rmijic  on 2008-04-23  2 comments   
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Interviewe with Peter Thiel - 'Technology Is at the Center'
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress
4 votes  by wal  on 2008-04-30  0 comments   
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Sirtris, a company focused on anti-aging medicine, to be bought by pharm giant Glaxo
Following recent news that Sirtris has promising compounds in the pipeline, GSK buys the young company at an 80% stock premium.
7 votes  by mycophage  on 2008-04-23  0 comments   
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It's not immoral to want to be immortal
Fears of a world of geezers who hog up all the resources are overblown.
5 votes  by wal  on 2008-04-26  0 comments   
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Using a super computer, scientists discover compound that could lead to new blood pressure drugs
Researchers used one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to process 140,000 prospective drug compounds in a matter of weeks. The computer predicted which molecules would be most likely to enhance the activity of ACE2, rotating them in thousands of different orientations to see how they would bind to certain pockets on the enzyme’s surface.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-06  0 comments   
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Intelligent Sticky Notes that can be Searched, Located and can Send Reminders and Messages [pdf]
An attempt to bring one of the most useful inventions of the 20th century into the digital age: the ubiquitous sticky notes.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-06  0 comments   
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The man who grew a finger
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
1 votes  by wal  on 2008-05-02  1 comment   
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