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‘Terminator’ polymer can spontaneously self-heal in just two hours
In the future, we may praise the computer repairman on his needlework. After all, the self-healing power of skin has served life very well over the years; it could be just as powerful in other...
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First Self-Assembling Diamond Quantum Devices Unveiled
Photo: A cluster of larger (30-nanometer) nanodiamonds, bonded to an SP1 protein German researchers have devised a technique of creating self-assembled nanodiamond quantum bits (qubits) that could form...
View ArticleChemists Develop Switchable Antibiotic
Scientists at the University of Groningen have developed an antibiotic whose activity can be controlled using light. It is possible to 'switch on' the substance immediately before use, after which it...
View ArticleGoogle vs. Death
How CEO Larry Page has transformed the search giant into a factory for moonshots. Our exclusive look at his boldest bet yet--to extend human life. In person, it can be a little hard to hear Larry Page....
View Article`Electronic Immortality. What to do now for your immortality` by Alexander...
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Shape-changing lens blends human and insect vision
One example of biomimicry that keeps popping up on the pages of Gizmag is the use of insect eyes as a model for innovative new optical devices. It seems that the potential for development in this area...
View ArticleHawking: 'in the future brains could be separated from the body'
Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer - but not with technology existing today. The cosmologist, 71, said the brain...
View ArticlePacked with sensors, Hexoskin shirt replaces wearable fitness trackers
Already reaching 70 percent of a $100,000 funding goal on Indiegogo, the Hexoskin is a sensor-filled smart shirt that offers significantly more health data than a basic fitness tracker like a Fitbit...
View ArticleHow Robo-Bees Could Save America's Crops
Something is killing off up to half of America's bees--terrible news for bees and the vegetation that depends on them for pollination. Fewer bees not only means less honey, it means lessfood....
View ArticleUCLA engineers develop a stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display
Imagine an electronic display nearly as clear as a window, or a curtain that illuminates a room, or a smartphone screen that doubles in size, stretching like rubber. Now imagine all of these being made...
View ArticleBoston Dynamics Gets $10 Million from DARPA for New Stealthy, Bulletproof LS3
You'd think that Boston Dynamics would be all kinds of busy building (and supporting) a small army of Atlas robots for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. But, it looks like they've somehow managed to find...
View ArticleIntel Futurist Shows How You’ll Download and Program Your Own Robot Next Year
So here’s a crazy idea that, when you think about it a bit, really isn’t so crazy anymore. If you could build your own robot, what would you have it do? If you’re the type who’s into building stuff and...
View ArticleBrain May Rely On Computer-Like Mechanism to Make Sense of Novel Situations
Our brains give us the remarkable ability to make sense of situations we've never encountered before -- a familiar person in an unfamiliar place, for example, or a coworker in a different job role --...
View ArticleScientists create first carbon nanotube computer
Someday we may look back on today’s iPhones and laptops as huge, clunky devices with outdated chips made of silicon that was long ago replaced by carbon nanotubes. Tens of thousands of the tiny...
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Magnetic Microbots to Fight Cancer
Late one crisp October night in 2006, a hospital technician in Montreal slid the limp body of an anesthetized pig into the tube of a magnetic resonance imaging machine, or MRI. A catheter extended from...
View ArticleSome Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control. Roboy, a robot developed by Rolf Pfeifer and...
View ArticleScientists Recycle Plastic Bags Into Carbon Nanotubes
One man’s waste plastic bags could be a high-tech’s nanomaterial, according to a new study published in the journal Carbon. Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a process for...
View ArticleMan controls new prosthetic leg using thought alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it – all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his...
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How IBM is making computers more like your brain. For real
Big Blue is using the human brain as a template for breakthrough designs. Brace yourself for a supercomputer that's cooled and powered by electronic blood and small enough to fit in a backpack. ZURICH,...
View ArticleMeet the Google executive who plans to cheat death
Futurist Ray Kurzweil explains the biology of the body is like computer software that needs upgrading Key is a 'bridge to bridge' system where you maximize current methods in order to live until...
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