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Will We Recognize The Future?
Science Friday June 6, 2008
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What happens when the rate of
technological change becomes so fast
that the fundamental nature of what
it means to be human changes too? On
Science Friday on NPR (June 7, 2009
at 3 PM), host Ira Flatow talks with
inventor, technologist and futurist
Ray Kurzweil about the idea of the
Singularity -- what happens when
technology advances so much...
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Laptops could betray users in the
developing world
NewScientist.com news service June 4, 2008
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Rolling out Internet-ready laptops
to inexperienced users across the
developing world poses a huge
security problem by potentially
allowing repressive governments to
track the Internet activity of their
citizens directly, some computer
security researchers suggest....
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Genetically modified humans: Here
and more coming soon (article
preview)
New Scientist June 4, 2008
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A research team in the UK is
experimenting with creating
three-parent embryos (by adding part
of the egg of one woman to the egg
of another) to prevent children
inheriting a rare group of serious
diseases caused by faulty
mitochondria, the powerhouses in our
cells. Mitochondrial diseases affect
at least 1 in 8000 people, probably
more, and...
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IBM Cools 3-D Chips with Water
PhysOrg.com June 5, 2008
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Researchers at IBM and the
Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin have
demonstrated a prototype that
integrates a water-based cooling
system into 3-D chips by piping
water directly between each layer in
the stack. The method is one of the
most promising approaches to
enhancing chip performance in "3-D
chip stacks" beyond its predicted
limits,...
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Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
PhysOrg.com June 5, 2008
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Fluid intelligence can be improved
by training short-term (working)
memory, University of Michigan
researchers have found. Fluid
intelligence, an aspect of a
person's IQ, allows people to solve
unfamiliar problems by understanding
relationships between various
concepts independent of previous
knowledge or...
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Plan for quake 'warning system'
BBC News June 5, 2008
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Researchers at NASA Ames Research
Center have found evidence
suggesting that fluctuation in the
density of electrons and other
electrically charged particles in
the ionosphere are correlated with
certain earthquake. They are
developing a proposal for a
low-cost, space-borne earthquake
early warning system based on at
least three...
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Testing the Toxicity of
Nanomaterials
Technology Review June 5, 2008
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Massachusetts General Hospital
researchers and colleagues have
developed a high-throughput
screening method to test the
toxicity of nanomaterials. A robotic
system (similar to that used for
drug screening) puts nanoparticles
inside tiny wells on a plate
containing hundreds of separate
wells. Each well contains one cell
type. The system detects...
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Study links lower vitamin D levels
with type 1 diabetes
KurzweilAI.net June 6, 2008
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University of California San Diego
researchers have found an
association between lower sun
exposure and higher type 1 diabetes
rates in children, which they
attribute to vitamin D levels. The
researchers plotted incidence rates
by latitude, using worldwide data
available through GLOBOCAN (a
database of cancer incidence,
mortality and prevalence...
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How to lose weight without losing
bone
KurzweilAI.net June 6, 2008
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University of Illinois researchers
have found that a higher-protein
diet that emphasizes lean meats and
low-fat dairy foods for protein
allows weight loss without the bone
loss that can happen with
conventional higher-carbohydrate
diets. They measured bone mineral
content and density of two diet
groups (higher protein and, higher
carbohydrate)...
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Brain chemical helps us tolerate
foul play
Nature News June 5, 2008
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University of Cambridge researchers
have found that decreased levels of
the neurotransmitter serotonin
increases emotional response to a
perceived unjust or unfair
situation. Volunteers who had their
serotonin levels temporarily lowered
were much more likely to reject
unfair offers in the Ultimatum Game
(one player divides the money, the
other...
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Pretty on the Inside
Technology Review June 5, 2008
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University of California, San
Francisco and Ludwig Maximilians
University researchers are using a
new technique called 3-D
structured-illumination microscopy
to view living cells with 100
nanometers resolution. Cells prepare
for division by condensing their DNA
into chromosomes (Lothar
Schermelleh, Peter Carlton) The new
microscope...
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