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Paralysed man takes a walk in
virtual world
PhysOrg.com June 2, 2008
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A paralyzed man using only his
brain waves has been able to
manipulate an avatar on Second Life.
In the experiment, he wore headgear
with three electrodes monitoring
brain waves related to his hands and
legs. Even though he cannot move his
legs, he imagined that his character
was walking. He was then able to
have a conversation with the...
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Microrobots dance on something
smaller than a pin's head
PhysOrg.com June 2, 2008
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Duke University scientists have
developed the first implementation
of an untethered, multi-microrobotic
system. The microrobots are almost
100 times smaller than any previous
robotic designs of their kind,
measuring about 60 microns wide, 250
microns long and 10 microns high,
and run off power scavenged from an
electrified surface. Built...
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Scientists find new
'quasiparticles'
PhysOrg.com June 2, 2008
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Weizmann Institute physicists have
demonstrated, for the first time,
the existence of "quasiparticles"
with one quarter the charge of an
electron. This finding could be a
first step toward creating exotic
types of quantum computers that
might be powerful, yet highly
stable. Quarter-charge
quasiparticles have been sought as
the basis of the...
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The good news in our DNA: Defects
you can fix with vitamins and
minerals
PhysOrg.com June 2, 2008
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University of California, Berkeley,
scientists have found an important
reason (besides finding disease
genes) to delve into your genetic
heritage: to find the slight genetic
flaws that can be fixed with
remedies as simple as vitamin or
mineral supplements. They found
there are many genetic differences
that make people's enzymes less
efficient...
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Dark, Perhaps Forever
New York Times June 3, 2008
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Although cosmologists have adopted
a cute name, dark energy, for
whatever is driving this apparently
antigravitational behavior on the
part of the universe, nobody claims
to understand why it is happening,
or its implications for the future
of the universe and of the life
within it, despite thousands of
learned papers, scores of
conferences and...
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The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at
Least
New York Times June 3, 2008
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Ray Kurzweil sees biology,
medicine, energy and other fields
being revolutionized by information
technology. His graphs already show
the beginning of exponential
progress in nanotechnology, in the
ease of gene sequencing, in the
resolution of brain scans. With
these new tools, he says, by the
2020s we'll be adding computers to
our brains and...
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New, flexible computers use
displays with any shape
PhysOrg.com June 2, 2008
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The "Organic User Interface" will
allow next-generation computers to
take on flexible forms we've never
imagined--like pop cans with
browsers displaying RSS feeds and
movie trailers, respond to our
direct touch, and even change their
own shape to better accommodate
data, by folding up like a piece of
paper to be tucked into our pockets,
for...
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Scientists build mind-reading
computer
Computerworld June 2, 2008
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University have developed a system
that can forecast the activity
patterns a brain will create for a
specific word. Subjects were given
58 concrete nouns and asked to think
about the meaning and properties of
the words. Brain scans taken when
the users were thinking about the
different words were then captured...
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At long last, real-time stock
quotes are here
Google Blog June 2, 2008
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Real-time quotes on NASDAQ
securities are now available on
Google Finance. This is an important
(and way overdue) development for
everyone who consumes financial
information....
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