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10 April / The online broadcast - Dr. Alexander Kaplan "Neurointerfaces:...
Dear friends and colleagues! The 2045 Initiative is pleased to announce the online broadcast on April 10, 2014 of a lecture by Dr. Alexander Kaplan, Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the...
View ArticleTemporary 'Tattoo' Could Help Patients With Parkinson's, Epilepsy
This is one tattoo you might not regret. Researchers at the University of Texas-Austin have developed an ultra-thin, temporary tattoo-like device that could store patients' medical information and...
View ArticleFighting Cancer with Nanomedicine
Short drug circulation times and difficulty localizing therapy to tumor sites are but two of the challenges associated with existing cancer treatments. More troubling are the issues of drug toxicity...
View ArticleNew Da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot Is Optimized for Complex Procedures
Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci series of surgical robots have been conducting FDA-approved minimally invasive surgery on humans for well over a decade now, and the company is continually trying to make...
View ArticleDARPA's New Biotech Division Wants To Create A Transhuman Future
The Pentagon's advanced research wing has announced its latest budget — and whoa, does DARPA ever have some ambitious plans for the future. Their new Biotech unit will be harnessing biology for...
View ArticleDNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches
It's a computer – inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal....
View ArticleCreationists buy robot to study technology's impact on humanity
A group of evangelical Christians has bought a Nao robot to explore the impact of humanoid robotics and artificial intelligence on humanity In 1925, creationists at the Scopes Trial in Tennessee argued...
View ArticleTranscendence featurette "The Promise of AI" / VIDEO
Transcendence featurette "The Promise of AI", including tiny little excerpts of interviews with Michel Maharbiz, Jose Carmena and Dmitry Itskov.
View ArticleScan a brain, read a mind?
What we write online may be intercepted, filtered and publicized, but we'd like to think that the thoughts and images in our heads are totally private. For better or worse, science may change that....
View ArticleThis Could Be the First Animal to Live Entirely Inside a Computer
Animals are exceptionally complicated things. So complicated, in fact, that we've never actually built one ourselves. But the day is fast approaching when we'll be able to create digital versions of...
View ArticleResearchers report that they have created a diagram of a mouse’s brain
A year after President Obama announced a $100 million “BRAIN Initiative” to accelerate discoveries in how gray matter thinks, feels, remembers and sometimes succumbs to devastating diseases, scientists...
View ArticleArtificial blood 'will be manufactured in factories'Artificial blood 'will be...
Wellcome Trust-funded stem cell research has produced red blood cells fit for transfusion into humans, paving the way for the mass production of blood. It is the stuff of gothic science fiction: men in...
View ArticleBend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. No, fans of “The Graduate,” the word isn’t “plastics.” It’s “graphene.” Graphene is the strongest, thinnest material known to exist. A form of carbon,...
View ArticleBrain activity may mark the beginning of memories
By tracking brain activity when an animal stops to look around its environment, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University believe they can mark the birth of a memory. Using lab rats on a circular...
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Google embeds cameras in contact lenses to aid the blind
Google has filed a US patent for embedding microscopic cameras into contact lenses, enabling the wearer to take photographs of their direct line of vision. The patent detailed how wearers will be able...
View ArticleHonda's ASIMO Robot Is Now Surprisingly Human
Honda's remarkable humanoid robot, ASIMO, has come a long way since I first saw it stiffly walk across a stage more than a decade ago. The latest edition can run briskly, climb stairs with ease, dance...
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Artificial eyes, plastic skulls: 3-D printing the human body
The 21st century has seen the growth of 3-D printing, with well-known applications in architecture, manufacturing, engineering, and now increasingly in medicine. The birth of 3-D scanning technologies...
View ArticleArtificial Surface and Metamaterial Advancement
A team of researchers in China has manufactured an artificial surface which is capable of bending electromagnetic waves, an advancement in metamaterials that will go far beyond the creation of new...
View ArticleWatch Google test its 3D-sensing phones on robots in zero gravity
Wonder what Google's Project Tango-equipped SPHERES robots will look like when they're in action aboard the International Space Station? The company is more than happy to show you. It has posted video...
View ArticleThe Surprising Thing Exercise Can Do For Your Brain
Why do some people love working out, while others loathe it? If rats are any indication, the will to be active is at least partly genetic, according to a 2013 University of Missouri finding. And...
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