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A Green Energy Industry Takes Root
in California
New York Times Feb. 1, 2008
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Investment in solar power is rising
in California, the product of
billions of dollars in investment
and mountains of...
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Death of the father: British
scientists discover how to turn
women's bone marrow into sperm
Daily Mail Jan. 31, 2008
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Researchers at Newcastle upon Tyne
University want to take stem cells
from a woman donor's bone marrow and
transform them into sperm through
the use of special chemicals and
vitamins. Newcastle professor Karim
Nayernia has applied for permission
to carry out the work and is ready
to start the experiments within two
months. The biologist,...
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Carbon nanotubes found safe in
mouse study
KurzweilAI.net Feb. 1, 2008
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Stanford University researchers
have conducted a systematic
circulation and excretion study that
they believe allays worries that
carbon nanotubes, by simply
remaining in the organs for a long
time, would prove toxic to a mouse.
They found the nanotubes leave the
body primarily through the feces,
with some by way of the urine. Their...
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More Macs, More Mobile, More Open
Source, Gartner Predicts
Information Week Feb. 1, 2008
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Gartner foresees mobile workers
abandoning notebooks for smaller,
more portable mobile devices ("new
classes of Internet-centric
pocketable devices at the sub-$400
level") by 2012. The year 2012 will
also mark a time when 80% of all
commercial software will include
open-source elements.
Simultaneously, a third of business
software spending...
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The Next 25 Years in Tech
PC World Jan. 30, 2008
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PC World predicts that in the next
25 years, technology will become
firmly embedded in advanced devices
that deliver information and
entertainment to our homes and our
hip pockets, in sensors that monitor
our environment from within the
walls and floors of our homes, and
in chips that deliver medicine and
augment reality inside our...
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New Tool Probes Brain Circuits:
Method Applied To Learning And
Memory Pathway
Science Daily Jan. 31, 2008
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MIT researchers report that they
have created a way to see the effect
of blocking and unblocking a single
neural circuit in a living animal.
The method allowed the researchers
to see how bypassing a major
memory-forming circuit in the brain
affected learning and memory in
mice....
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Haptics: New Software Allows User
To Reach Out And Touch, Virtually
Science Daily Jan. 31, 2008
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European researchers have developed
an interface that allows people to
touch, stretch and pull virtual
fabrics that feel like the real
thing. The new multi-modal software
linked to tactile hardware and
haptics devices has potential uses
in shopping, design and
human-machine...
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Smart 'Lego' conjures up virtual 3D
twin
NewScientist.com news service Jan. 31, 2008
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Carnegie Mellon University
researchers have developed "Posey,"
a new hands-on way of interacting
with computers. When Posey's plastic
pieces are snapped together, an
exact copy of the construction
appears on a computer screen. Every
twist of, say, a stick figure's arm,
is mirrored in 3D modeling software....
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