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Even if NASA completely folds shop (I wouldn't want that though), the private industry is now able to take over, even if it will take them a while to get to the level that NASA is at.
Meanwhile in more down-to-earth news: Singularity Hub: Scientists bag and tag the stem cell that may create an endless supply of blood Also PopSci: Self-Assembling Microparticle Machines Pick Up and Transport Material, Forming Spontaneous Assembly Lines One step closer to nanomachine construction... also, micromachines, but still small And finally: PopSci: A Transparent Battery to Power Next-Gen See-Through Gadgets Transparent batteries... looks like we can get some cool transparent watches now
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2011-08-10, 11:42 | Link #65 |
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Neurogaming set to be launched by Disney
"Cyberpunk futurist gaming fantasies are getting closer to commercial reality
courtesy of Walt Disney’s research labs. Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP), has created a new sensory based technology called Surround Haptics, which allows gamers and film audiences to feel a range of sensations wherever they wear the technology." See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08...g_thanks_walt/ |
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2011-08-11, 10:50 | Link #68 |
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'Huge' results raise hope for cancer breakthrough
"In a potential breakthrough in cancer research, scientists at the University of
Pennsylvania have genetically engineered patients' T cells — a type of white blood cell — to attack cancer cells in advanced cases of a common type of leukemia. Two of the three patients who received doses of the designer T cells in a clinical trial have remained cancer-free for more than a year, the researchers said. Experts not connected with the trial said the feat was important because it suggested that T cells could be tweaked to kill a range of cancers, including ones of the blood, breast and colon." See: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-...,1073777.story |
2011-08-11, 17:52 | Link #70 |
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Interesting. The big question is...which government or corporation will actually get the ball rolling towards Mars? And when?
As a History Major, I've come to believe that the problems with America is because we have no goal and that we are not expanding anyplace. While individual people may not think it is needed, the country as a whole seems to have been driven by either, explortion, expansion, or a driving need to get something done. With a goal, society has nothing to do but spin its wheels and fall apart. Americans need a national level goal. Sure half the country will not be for it...that is normal, but the half that is for it will make it happen out of pride, of nothing else. How do you stop Rome from falling? Keep successfully expanding? Maybe...maybe not. How do you keep Americans from degenerating? Let them be Pioneers again? Maybe...hopefully. There might not be anyone out their (locally) to be at war with or whatever...but explorations and settling are sometimes easier when you don't have restless natives to fight every decade on the way.
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2011-08-11, 22:40 | Link #73 |
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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Genetic Engineering Might Save Your Life
"Genetic engineering scares a lot of people, partly because we love making sci-fi
movies and video games starring walking humanoid horrors that resulted from experiments gone wrong. And, while the idea of something like growing a human heart in a sheep's body just seems wrong somehow, it probably seems less wrong to the person who actually needs a heart transplant. What we're trying to say is that as weird as it is, genetic engineering may save your life some day thanks to things like ..." See: http://www.cracked.com/article_19343...your-life.html |
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For the consumer it might actually be a bad deal... imagine you have an allergy against a certain acid in tomatoes. Now imagine for whatever reason a bio tech firm injects the genetic information that is responsible for this acid into other farm products. As a consumer you've now alergies against these genetically modified farm products too. Besides, you can see in hospitals where the artificial intervention in the environment can lead to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance). Fiddling with nature in that regard could result in actually making things worse. For example super resistant plants could easily destroy ecosystems or replace natural crops by replacing other non-resistant plants. There might also be super resistent pests as a side-effect... which in turn demand evermore poisenous pesticides to get rid of them.
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2011-08-12, 19:34 | Link #75 |
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Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses
"A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could
transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday." See: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Elec..._uses_999.html |
2011-08-15, 22:03 | Link #77 |
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Japanese researchers grow plants on high-tech sheets that are microns thick
This looks like a great helpful technology, especially in the future for trees and crops.
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2011-08-17, 13:03 | Link #80 |
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'Making science-fiction a reality': Bulletproof human skin made from spider silk and
goat milk developed by researchers: "It might look like a poorly drawn picture of an alien, but this is actually one of the most advanced types of skin ever made - that can even stop bullets." See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...cientists.html |
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