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National Academy of Engineering to
unveil Grand Challenges
KurzweilAI.net Feb. 8, 2008
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An 18-member National Academy of
Engineering committee -- chaired by
former U.S. Secretary of Defense
William J. Perry and including Ray
Kurzweil, as well as Google founder
Larry Page, human genome pioneer J.
Craig Venter, Nobel Prize winner
Mario Molina, former National
Institutes of Health director
Bernadine Healy, and other leading...
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Large-Scale Rewritable Holograms
Technology Review Feb. 8, 2008
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A holographic display developed by
researchers at the University of
Arizona and at Nitto Denko Technical
Corporation can be repeatedly
written to and erased. The
University of Arizona researchers
developed a new polymer-based
material that encodes information
using electric fields. It could
eventually allow for life-sized
displays of people and...
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Scanning Your Money to the Bank
New York Times Feb. 7, 2008
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Fiserv, the big transaction
services company, has announced new
software that will enable banks to
let home users deposit checks by
scanning them....
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Multiverse Network unveils Virtual
Times Square
KurzweilAI.net Feb. 7, 2008
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The Multiverse Network, Inc. has
unveiled Virtual Times Square, a
virtual world featuring multiple
videos to demo the company's
comprehensive development platform.
Newly integrated features include
Flash and YouTube video support, web
integration, and next-generation
lighting techniques. "Multiverse's
Virtual Times Square represents the...
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Biofuels Are Bad for Feeding People
and Combating Climate Change
ScientificAmerican.com Feb. 7, 2008
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Converting corn to ethanol in Iowa
not only leads to clearing more of
the Amazonian rainforest,
researchers report, but also would
do little to slow global warming. It
may often make it worse. Growing
plants store carbon in their roots,
shoots and leaves, which will end up
as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
when cut down. And diverting food...
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Shake a leg to power your phone
Nature News Feb. 7, 2008
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A new knee brace can extract 5
watts from walking motion using a
method comparable to the
"regenerative braking" used in some
electric and hybrid motor cars....
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Brain Signal Linked to Autism
Technology Review Feb. 7, 2008
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By imaging the brains of
adolescents with a high-functioning
form of autism as they played an
interactive trust game, Baylor
College of Medicine cientists have
identified a physiological marker
specific to the disorder....
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Fully Robotic Observatory Set Up In
Antarctica
Science Daily Feb. 7, 2008
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Scientists have installed a fully
robotic observatory in Antarctica.
It will operate autonomously for up
to 12 months at a time while sending
back data via the Iridium satellite
network....
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Scientists produce carbon nanotubes
using commercially available
polymeric resins
PhysOrg.com Feb. 7, 2008
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Naval Research Laboratory
scientists have produced carbon
nanotubes in high yields in bulk
solid compositions using
commercially available aromatic
containing resins. The solid-state
method enables the large-scale
production of multi-walled carbon
nanotubes in moldable solid forms,
films, and fibers using low-cost
precursors and equipment and...
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Researcher leads international
effort to create 'proteinpedia'
PhysOrg.com Feb. 7, 2008
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A Johns Hopkins Institute of
Genetic Medicine researcher is
leading an effort to compile to date
the largest free resource of
experimental information about human
proteins. Their "proteinpedia"
currently compiles data provided by
more than 71 laboratories with
entries for more than 15,230 human
proteins....
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Team Uncovers New Evidence of
Recent Human Evolution
ScienceNOW Daily News Feb. 4, 2008
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French and Spanish researchers have
found new evidence to support recent
evolution in humans: genes for
traits such as skin color and
stature changed rapidly to allow
humans to survive in new habitats.
The team identified 582 genes that
have evolved differently in
different populations in the past
60,000 years, including a dozen that
protect...
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Brain Region That Can Be Stimulated
To Reduce The Cognitive Deficits
Of
Sleep Deprivation Identified
Science Daily Feb. 7, 2008
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Columbia University Medical Center
researchers have reduced the
deficits in working memory
associated with extended sleep
deprivation by using transcranial
magnetic stimulation on the left
lateral occipital cortex....
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