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Audio: Education and Technology

butterscotch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:36:55 +0000

This podcast highlights immersive interfaces for learning, computer-assisted military training, and a new home-learning system in Korea.
Category: Education
Year: General
Tags: immersiveinterface, education, technology, virtualreality, computer, militarytraining, elearning

Video: Education and Technology

butterscotch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:33:38 +0000

A video introduction to Science's special issue on the promises, and challenges, that rapidly changing technology presents for the educational world.
Category: Education
Year: General
Tags: education, technology, computergames, multimedia, web

When will this recession end ? Part 2 Optimists or Pessimists in 2009?

smarteconomy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:23:28 +0000

When will this recession end ? Part 2 Do you listen to the Optimists or the Pessimists in 2009? Last week I asked the question on Christmas Eve-When will this recession end? Today I'd like to continue the debate. Have you noticed lately the ...
Category: Economics
Year: 2009

Genetic Modification Turns E. Coli Bacteria Into High Density Biofuel

il pinolo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:16:51 +0000

For the first time, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have successfully pushed nature beyond its limits by genetically modifying Escherichia coli, a bacterium often associated with food poisoning, to p...
Category: Energy
Year: 2009
Tags: ecoli, biofuel, longerchainalcohol, energy, environment, alternativeenergy

When will the recession end? Part 3 collapse of the American Middle Class

smarteconomy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:15:41 +0000

When will the recession end? Part 3 The coming collapse of the American Middle Class into an Underclass Why will this recession / depression be longer and deeper then most of the downturns in the last 100 years? In each of the post war downt...
Category: Economics
Year: 2009

The Gold Standard: Nanoparticles Used To Make 3-D DNA Nanotubes

Bora — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:10:07 +0000

Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small. Their medium is the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building material offering near limitless constru...
Category: Technology
Year: 2009
Tags: dnananotubes, biomedicine, 3d

Gold Nanoparticles For Controlled Drug Delivery

Bora — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:03:46 +0000

Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.
Category: Biotechnology
Year: 2009
Tags: gold, nanoparticles, drugdelivery, mit

Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

Bora — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:44 +0000

One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers has provided insight into...
Category: Biotechnology
Year: 2009
Tags: cancerstemcells, stemcells, targeting

Protein's essential role in repairing damaged cells revealed

Bora — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:54:32 +0000

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that a key protein in cells plays a critical role in not one, but two processes affecting the development of cancer.
Category: Science
Year: 2009
Tags: dnadamage, repair, cancer, mrncomplex, cellengineering

New hydrogen production method could reduce need for fossil fuels

il pinolo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:49:55 +0000

Scientists have created an entirely natural and renewable method for producing hydrogen to generate electricity which could drastically reduce the dependency on fossil fuels in the future.
Category: Energy
Year: 2009
Tags: hydrogen, electricity, fossilfuel, energy, ethanol

Future Flash: Supercomputer

juldrich — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:39:03 +0000

A short two-minute video explaining the growing power of supercomputers.
Category: Business & Work
Year: 2010

Terrorists could use ‘insect-based’ biological weapon

Garry Golden — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:37:57 +0000

U Wyoming Prof Jeffrey Lockwood - author of Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War believes that could be agent of bio terrorism
Category: Security
Year: Beyond
Tags: terrorism, biotechnology

New Way to Make Carbon Nanotubes

Garry Golden — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:34:40 +0000

Berkeley Lab scientists could help to push nanotechnology out of the lab and into faster electronic devices, more powerful sensors, and other advanced technologies.
Category: Science
Year: 2018
Tags: nanoscale, chemistry, energy

New sensors capable of measuring damage to infrastructure

Garry Golden — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:09 +0000

Dr. Genda Chen, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was recently awarded a patent for "Strain Sensitive Coax Cable Sensors for Monitoring Structures."
Category: Transportation
Year: 2018
Tags: energy, infrastructure, design, sensors

Bush Protects Vast Tracts of Ocean

amisampat — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:04:51 +0000

President Bush has made environmental history by protecting three vast tracts of ocean wilderness totaling 195,000 square miles — an area grater than the states of Washington and Oregon combined.
Category: Environment
Year: General

Violin-Playing Robot

Adam Cutsinger — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:03:56 +0000

Plus, check out the Self-Reassembling Robot, the Self-Learning Helicopters, and other Gadgets from around the world.
Category: Technology
Year: 2009
Tags: robots, robotics, selfassembling, robot, violinplaying, artificial, intelligence, selflearning, remote, control, helicopters

Researchers link protein to protection against Alzheimer's

Garry Golden — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:51:51 +0000

Canadian researchers have found a protective and reparative role of apolipoprotein D, or ApoD, in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons that might slow the onset of these types of nuero-illnesses.
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: Beyond
Tags: health, medicine, biotechnology, aging

Nanotechnology and Radically Extended Life Span

Jeff Hilford — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:45:01 +0000

A revolution in medical technology looms large on the horizon. The agent of change is microscopically small and is defined in today’s nomenclature as nanotechnology.
Category: Technology
Year: Beyond
Tags: lifeextension, freitas, nanotechnology, nanobot, infections, cells, biology, research

Second Gen Porsche Cayenne

and2009 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:07:40 +0000

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Category: Transportation
Year: 2011
Tags: porsche, cayenne, cars

Intelligence Rising: Climbing the Stairs of Abstraction

Alvis Brigis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:06:23 +0000

A variety of thinkers have converged on the notion that humans rely on what is essentially "software" to build our simulation(s) of the world around us. Abstractions Driving the Flynn Effect: Cognitive historian James Flynn attributes the ...
Category: Technology
Year: Beyond
Tags: intelligence, abstraction, flynn, flynneffect, exponential, technology, communication, information, iq