From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 13:10:48 UTC
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>Nanobot programmable dermal display
>animation developed
>KurzweilAI.net Sept. 24, 2005
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>Robert A. Freitas and Gina
>"Nanogirl" Miller have developed an
>animation of the "programmable
>dermal display" described in
>Freitas' Nanomedicine, Volume I:
>Basic Capabilities book. A
>population of about 3 billion
>display pixel robots would be
>permanently implanted a fraction of
>a mm under the surface of the skin
>of the back of the hand,...
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>University of Denmark Scientists
>Develop Hydrogen Tablet
>Fuel Cell Today Sept. 20, 2005
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>Scientists at the Technical
>University of Denmark have invented
>a technology which may be an
>important step towards the hydrogen
>economy: a hydrogen tablet that
>effectively stores hydrogen in an
>inexpensive and safe material in
>solid form: in ammonia absorbed
>efficiently in sea salt....
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>Quantum-dot syntheses developed
>KurzweilAI.net Sept. 23, 2005
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>New synthesis methods by University
>at Buffalo researchers allow for
>scalable, rapid creation of large
>quantities of non-toxic, robust,
>water-dispersible quantum dots for
>bioimaging. The quantum dots also
>emit light in longer wavelengths, in
>the red region of the spectrum,
>making them capable of imaging
>processes deeper in the body, and
>they...
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>Magnetic diamonds for medicine
>UPI Sept. 22, 2005
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>Low-cost magnetic carbon
>nanoparticles could prove useful in
>electronic and medical applications,
>such as enhancing the resolution of
>MRI scans and biocompatible drug
>delivery....
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>Brain imaging ready to detect
>terrorists, say neuroscientists
>news_at_nature.com Sept. 21, 2005
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>Brain-imaging techniques that
>reveal when a person is lying are
>now reliable enough to identify
>criminals, with 99% accuracy, claim
>University of Pennsylvania School of
>Medicine researchers. When someone
>lies, their brain inhibits them from
>telling the truth, and this makes
>the frontal lobes more active, which
>can be monitored with functional...
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>Scientists create artificial
>proteins from evolutionary 'rules'
>KurzweilAI.net Sept. 23, 2005
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>Scientists have created artificial
>proteins based on a set of simple
>"rules" that nature appears to use
>to design proteins. The artificial
>proteins look and function just like
>their natural counterparts. The UT
>Southwestern Medical Center
>researchers tested the "rules"
>gleaned from the evolutionary record
>by feeding them into a computer
>program...
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>Researchers predict infinite
>genomes
>KurzweilAI.net Sept. 23, 2005
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>Researchers might never fully
>describe some bacteria and
>viruses--because their genomes are
>infinite, according to scientists at
>The Institute for Genomic Research
>(TIGR), writing in the September
>19-23 early online edition of the
>Proceedings of the National Academy
>of Sciences (PNAS). With
>collaborators at Chiron Corporation,
>Harvard Medical...
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>A Sci-Fi Future Awaits the Court
>Wired News Sept. 22, 2005
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>At John Roberts' confirmation
>hearings last week, there weren't
>enough discussions about science
>fiction. Technologies that are
>science fiction today will become
>constitutional questions before
>Roberts retires from the bench. The
>same goes for technologies that
>cannot even be conceived of now. And
>many of these questions involve
>privacy....
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>Intel claims power breakthrough
>vnunet.com Sept. 21, 2005
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>Intel has announced a new chip
>manufacturing process which it
>claims could dramatically cut power
>consumption, and boost battery life
>by up to 1,000 per cent....
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