Business Week – International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” Now they’re trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the phone in your pocket. Finding additional uses for Watson is part of IBM’s plan to …
Glybera is the first gene-therapy medicine to be recommended for authorisation in the European Union. Gene therapy medicines have the potential to cure genetic disorders by replacing a defective gene with a working copy, thus helping the body to recover functionality. Glybera uses an adeno-associated virus vector as the delivery vehicle to add working copies …
Better robots and AI are coming, but business process changes and better business models (Netflix and Redbox versus Blockbuster) can have more impact. Process changes and other Job Impacts There is concern that robots and automation displace human jobs Better and more robots and artificial intelligence are not the only ways for humans to lose …
1. WSJ – After an uncertain couple of weeks, more and more signs are now suggesting that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will give a formal order to restart two nuclear reactors at the Oi plant in western Japan next week. It would then take two or three weeks to get each one up and running. …
Scientia Sinica Physica – Graphene control cutting using an atomic force microscope based nanorobot The electrical properties of graphene strongly rely on its size,geometry and edge structure.Therefore,the ability of fabricating graphene into desired configuration is one of the enabled techniques to manufacture graphene-based nanodevices and push it into practical applications.However,there is no effective way to …
Nanoletters – High Aspect Subdiffraction-Limit Photolithography via a Silver Superlens Photolithography is the technology of choice for mass patterning in semiconductor and data storage industries. Superlenses have demonstrated the capability of subdiffraction-limit imaging and been envisioned as a promising technology for potential nanophotolithography. Unfortunately, subdiffraction-limit patterns generated by current superlenses exhibited poor profile depth far …
Todd Huffman, Brain Imaging and neuroscience researcher Used to work on Alcor and a competitor Alcor is the leading cryonics organization 3scan.com There is a site discussing uploading in detail carboncopies.org Death and Cryo Alive / Personalized Life Extension/ Death / Decent Cryopreservation/ Poor Cryopreservation/ Right now in 2012 Cryonics workflow * Standby when you …
Columbia Tribune – Sidney Kimmel, founder and chairman of The Jones Group — which includes brands such as Anne Klein, Nine West and Gloria Vanderbilt — donated the money through his charitable foundation. The money will be used to create the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance, SKINR, which will involve researchers from the Missouri …
A group of researchers led by the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have achieved to quantify with precision the effect of protein aggregation on cell aging processes using as models the Escherichia coli bacteria and the molecule which triggers Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists demonstrated that the effect can be …
The two physics stories that dominated the news in 2011 were questions rather than solid scientific results, namely “Do neutrinos travel faster than light?” and “Has the Higgs boson been found?”. However, there have also been some fantastic bona fide research discoveries over the last 12 months, which made it difficult to decide on the …
The Frisch vom Dach, or Fresh from the Roof project, plans to create a 7,000-square-meter (1.73 acre) roof garden, complete with a fish farm, to provide Berliners with sustainable, locally-grown food. They hope to sow the seeds of a new form of urban agriculture, arguing that traditional farming needs to evolve — and soon. In …