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Project to rebuild Internet gets
$12M, bandwidth
AP July 30, 2008
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With $12 million in government
funding, BBN Technologies is heading
a massive project to redesign and
rebuild the Internet from scratch:
the Global Environment for Network
Innovations (GENI), a network on
which researchers will be able to
test new ideas, using
ultra-high-speed bandwidth(10 and 30
gigabits per second) without
damaging the current...
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New technique to compress light
could open doors for optical
communications
PhysOrg.com July 30, 2008
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Scientists at the University of
California, Berkeley, have devised a
way to squeeze light into tighter
spaces (on the order of 10
nanometers), potentially opening
doors to new technology in the
fields of optical communications,
miniature lasers and optical...
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Thin films: ready for their
close-up?
Nature News July 30 2008
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New thin-film solar cells may
enable solar-cell technology to
maintain its 50% annual growth
during the past five years.
Candidate materials to replace
today's amorphous silicon include
cadmium telluride, CIGS (copper
indium gallium diselenide), and dyes
painted onto the surface of
nanometer-size particles of titanium
dioxide. In sunny...
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World's First Robotised
Tele-Ultrasound Exam via Satellite
Medgadget July 30, 2008
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French firm Robosoft has announced
the world's first "robotized
tele-ultrasound" examination via
satellite. In a demonstration, a
doctor in France controlled a remote
robot with an ultrasound probe to
examine a patient on board a ship in
the Mediterranean, using an Internet
communication via satellite....
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Help for fall-prone elderly
KurzweilAI.net July 31, 2008
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New technologies just announced
could enable elderly individuals to
live independently for longer.
Virginia Tech engineers have
developed pants embedded with small
printed circuit boards containing
microcontrollers, sensors, and
communication devices. Gyroscopes
and accelerometers are attached to
each of an individual's ankles and
knees, and an...
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Controlling a Gut Bot's Position
Technology Review July 31, 2008
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Carnegie Mellon University
researchers have developed a tiny
capsule robot adhesive enough to
anchor inside an intestine and yet
gentle enough not to tear soft
tissue. (Metin Sitti, Carnegie
Mellon University) They looked to
beetles, which secrete oil-like
liquids along their foot hairs to
stick securely to surfaces, and
coated the robot's...
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3-D Printing for the Masses
Technology Review July 31, 2008
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Shapeways, a new online service,
aims to bring customized
manufacturing to the masses by
allowing consumers to submit digital
designs of products that are then
printed, using 3-D printers, and
shipped back, at prices typically
between $50 and $150. (Shapeways)
While some 3-D printing services
already exist, they are geared to...
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Brain Mechanism Can Turn Off Trauma
of Bad Memories
HealthDay News July 30, 2008
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University of California, Irvine
and University of Muenster
researchers have identified the
brain mechanism that turns off
traumatic feelings associated with
bad memories: a protein called
neuropeptide S (NPS). NPS reduces
traumatic responses to bad memories
by stimulating neurons in the
basolateral amygdala (brain region
associated with...
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Plant-grown oral vaccine for plague
developed
KurzweilAI.net July 31, 2008
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University of Central Florida
researchers have developed an oral
vaccine for the plague (caused by
the Yersinia pestis bacteria) that
can be grown in genetically
engineered chloroplasts (the
photosynthesis organelle) of plants
such as tobacco or lettuce. They
added the gene for the F1-V fusion
antigen protein, found on the
outside of the plague...
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Gene surveys identify schizophrenia
triggers
Nature News July 30, 2008
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Researchers in two large-scale
multinational studies have found
that rare genetic changes are
associated with an increased risk of
schizophrenia. The International
Schizophrenia Consortium studied the
genomes of 3,391 patients with
schizophrenia, looking for a
specific type of genetic error
called a "copy number variation
(CNV)," in which a...
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