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A quarter of planet to be online by
2012, and able to understand each's
other's language
KurzweilAI.net July 21, 2008
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25 percent of the planet will be
connected to the Internet by 2012,
according to a Jupiter Research
report, with highest growth rate in
areas such as China, Russia, India
and Brazil. Many of these users will
be able to understand each other's
language, says Ray Kurzweil. He
cites current developments in the
speed and accuracy of...
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Low-cost LED lights?
KurzweilAI.net July 21, 2008
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Purdue University researchers have
developed a new fabrication process
that promises to make LEDs
cost-competitive with compact
fluorescent lights, which are four
times more efficient than
conventional incandescent lights,
but contain harmful mercury. They
replaced the expensive
sapphire-based substrate with
low-cost, metal-coated silicon...
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Next big VC market: life extension?
Broader Perspective July 20, 2008
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Life extension could be the next
significant industry targeted by
venture capitalists and private
investment, says Silicon Valley
hedge fund manager and futurist
Melanie Swan. She points out the
need for specialist life-extension
doctors and suggests a health social
network people where patients could
share interventions and upload their...
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Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy
unveils the buried secrets of the
nanoworld
PhysOrg.com July 17, 2008
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A novel super-resolution X-ray
microscope developed by Paul
Scherrer Institut and EPFL
researchers combines the high
penetration power of x-rays with
high spatial resolution with raster
scanning, making it possible to
non-destructively view the detailed
interior composition of
sub-hundred-nanometer semiconductor
devices or biological samples...
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A Book With 90,000 Authors
New York Times July 19, 2008
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German publisher Bertelsmann plans
to publish a book with the most
credited individual authors
ever--approximately 90,000: "The
One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia,"
containing the 25,000 most popular
articles on German Wikipedia....
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Energy from Waves
Technology Review July 14, 2008
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A new device being developed by
U.K.-based Checkmate SeaEnergy could
help tap a portion of the two
trillion watts of electricity that
the ocean's waves could generate.
(Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council, UK) The "Anaconda"
device would be a 200-meters long,
water-filled rubber tube closed at
both ends that transmits wave...
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Babies use grown-up memory tricks
New Scientist July 19, 2008
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Johns Hopkins University
researchers have found that babies
use the same technique as adults to
overcome limits in their working
memory (memory overload): grouping
things into hierarchical categories.
The 14-month-old babies could only
remember three things at a time, but
those things could include both
individual items or groups. The
babies...
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Human blood vessels grown in mice
BBC News July 18, 2008
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Harvard Medical School researchers
used human progenitor cells (taken
from blood or bone marrow, and able
to form different cell types) to
grow a network of new blood vessels
(capillaries) in a mouse. The
harvested cells were mixed with
growth-promoting chemicals and then
implanted in mice. Within seven days
the human cells grew into fully...
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Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion
Wind-Power Project
New York Times July 18, 2008
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Texas regulators have approved a
$4.93 billion wind-power
transmission project, providing a
major lift to the development of
wind energy in the...
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Chemical breakthrough turns sawdust
into biofuel
New Scientist news service July 18, 2008
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Peking University have developed a
lignin breakdown reaction, using
near-critical (hot, pressurised)
water, that more reliably produces
the alkanes and alcohols needed for...
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Invisible nanotube cable could
support a human
New Scientist news service July 20, 2008
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A nanotube cable one centimeter in
diameter with nanotubes separated by
5 microns (more than one wavelength
of light) could hold a human while
remaining invisible, Nicola Pugno of
the Polytechnic of Turin in Italy
has calculated....
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The Bubble Bursts
ScienceNOW News July 18, 2008
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A Purdue University nuclear
engineer who claimed to have carried
out tabletop nuclear fusion is
responsible for two instances of
scientific misconduct, a report made
public today concludes. Both cases
centered on efforts by physicist
Rusi Taleyarkhan to make experiments
carried out by members of his lab
appear as independent verification
of his...
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