Robots are getting more like us and famous scientists are concerned
If 1984’s cautionary tale, The Terminator, is anything to go by, humanity should be wary of any more advances in robotics or artificial intelligence. Elon Musk recently pledged $10 million to keep...
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NASA and Microsoft team up for virtual Mars exploration
OnSight will use holographic computing to overlay visual information and data into the user's field of view (Image: NASA) Years before the first astronauts set foot on Mars, scientists will already be...
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On the ups and downs of the seemingly idle brain
This image shows inhibitory cells abound in the barrel cortex of the mouse, where three main types were labeled to fluoresce in different colors: PV (red), SOM (blue), and 5HT3aR, which includes VIP...
View ArticleBBC / Back-up brains: The era of digital immortality
How do you want to be remembered? As Simon Parkin discovers, we may eventually be able to preserve our entire minds for generations to come – would you? A few months before she died, my grandmother...
View ArticleHow To Create A Virtual "Body" For Your Uploaded Mind
The prospect of uploading your brain into a supercomputer is an exciting one — your mind can live on forever, and expand its capacity in ways that are hard to imagine. But it leaves out one crucial...
View ArticleRay Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years / BY PETER...
In my new book BOLD, one of the interviews that I’m most excited about is with my good friend Ray Kurzweil. Bill Gates calls Ray, “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial...
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Ideum’s Duet smart table runs both Windows 8 and Android
We’ve seen a number of smart tables from Ideum before, but the Duet brings something a little new, integrating both Windows 8 and Android computers into a single unit. The company has designed it to be...
View ArticleKeeping an open mind about consciousness research
It's not often you find philosophers of consciousness, neuroscientists and their naysayers happily on the same page. As a group, they often disagree, sometimes bitterly, but an online publication may...
View ArticleSpaceX Reveals Stunning Video Showing Its Totally Futuristic New Rockets
Yesterday, SpaceX released an animated video of its new Falcon Heavy rocket that, if all goes according to plan, will eventually be able to launch a manned spacecraft into space and then touch back...
View ArticleTelomere-lengthening procedure turns clock back years in human cells
Scientists have devised a method of lengthening telomeres, allowing cells to divide more times before dying (Image: AJC1 via Flickr - CC BY-SA 2.0) Researchers at the Stanford University School of...
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The Radical Implant That Enables Paralyzed Rats to Walk Again
Scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland recently unveiled a flexible spinal implant called the electronic dura (or e-Dura) that they say may greatly improve...
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NASA, Boeing and SpaceX outline future of commercial manned spaceflight
NASA's Stephanie Schierholz introduces the panel of NASA and commercial representatives (Photo: NASA TV) For several years, NASA and its private enterprise partners have been working on the space...
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AP's 'robot journalists' are writing their own stories now
Minutes after Apple released its record-breaking quarterly earnings this week, the Associated Press published (by way of CNBC, Yahoo, and others) "Apple tops Street 1Q forecasts." It's a story without...
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Functioning brain tissue grown in 3-D structure
CALB and L7 are Purkinje-cell specific late markers are shown. GRID2 is a marker for a Purkinje-specific glutamate receptor. LHX5 is a marker for early Purkinje cells. Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the...
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A Cheap Material Boosts Solar Cells by 50 Percent
Putting a new kind of photovoltaic material on top of a conventional solar cell can boost overall power output by half. Researchers at Stanford University added a type of material known as a perovskite...
View ArticleFlexible graphene-based LED clears the way for flexible displays
Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene-based LED device that could form the basis of flexible screens for...
View ArticleWhat Can Supporters Do for Transhumanism?
Transhumanism has recently grown from a smallish group of scientists, futurists, and technologists to an international movement of supporters that fields people from all different walks of life....
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Will you print your next PC? A reality check on 3D-printed electronics
Hidden among the many leaps forward in wearables and monitors at CES was a smaller, more impressive advancement: a printer from start-up company Voxel8 that can actually print circuitry. I’ve been...
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One-atom-thin silicene transistors may lead to dramatically faster computer...
Silicene, an atom-thin form of silicon that holds promise for super-fast computing, has a structure called a buckled honeycomb lattice As recently as 2010, human-made silicene – an atom-thin form of...
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Self-Organization of Polarized Cerebellar Tissue in 3D Culture of Human...
Highlights • Neurons of the cerebellum are generated from FGF2-treated cultures of human ESCs • The induced human Purkinje cells exhibit conserved and human-specific characteristics • FGF19 and SDF1...
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