Our Technological Future About upcoming technologies such as nanotechnology/molecular manufacturing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology. All of these are accelerating exponentially. The implications are vast Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 19 0 4 5570

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Elixer Of Youth Through A Simple Injection? 2007-09-07 07:24:00 The 'elixir of life' that could soon be given by injection The prospect of holding back the years with a simple injection could be closer than we think. Scientists have taken a step towards developing a treatment that could erase the health problems associated with ageing. While their breakthrough relates to rogue genes behind two rare genetic diseases, the approach they used could one day be ...

Elixer Of Youth Through A Simple Injection? 2007-09-07 07:24:00 The 'elixir of life' that could soon be given by injection The prospect of holding back the years with a simple injection could be closer than we think. Scientists have taken a step towards developing a treatment that could erase the health problems associated with ageing. While their breakthrough relates to rogue genes behind two rare genetic diseases, the approach they used could one day be ...

Skinny Gene Discovered 2007-09-05 06:02:00 Researchers say 'skinny' gene really exists A team of American researchers say they may have found the "skinny" gene after they were able to manipulate obesity among worms and mice. Published in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the report looks at the role played by a single gene in fat formation. Greater ...

Skinny Gene Discovered 2007-09-05 06:02:00 Researchers say 'skinny' gene really exists A team of American researchers say they may have found the "skinny" gene after they were able to manipulate obesity among worms and mice. Published in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the report looks at the role played by a single gene in fat formation. Greater ...

Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos A Step Closer To Reality 2007-09-05 05:53:00 Human-Animal Embryos A Step Closer Scientists are today expected to be given the go-ahead to create human-animal embryos. The hybrid embryos will be produced by mixing human cells with animal eggs. Controversially, the embryos will only be 99.9% human. Around 0.1% of the DNA will be from the animal. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is likely to approve the work after a public ... Hybrid

Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos A Step Closer To Reality 2007-09-05 05:53:00 Human-Animal Embryos A Step Closer Scientists are today expected to be given the go-ahead to create human-animal embryos. The hybrid embryos will be produced by mixing human cells with animal eggs. Controversially, the embryos will only be 99.9% human. Around 0.1% of the DNA will be from the animal. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is likely to approve the work after a public ... Hybrid

Go Solar For Less Than $600 2007-09-04 13:33:00 Go Solar, Room by Room I’d bet you thought that you’d have to spend thousands of dollars to go completely off the grid? Even with state sponsored incentives, going all solar could set you back quite a bit. What would you think about going solar, room by room!? There’s a system out there that makes going solar very affordable and you can add to it as you go! No, this won’t take you off the grid ...

Go Solar For Less Than $600 2007-09-04 13:33:00 Go Solar, Room by Room I’d bet you thought that you’d have to spend thousands of dollars to go completely off the grid? Even with state sponsored incentives, going all solar could set you back quite a bit. What would you think about going solar, room by room!? There’s a system out there that makes going solar very affordable and you can add to it as you go! No, this won’t take you off the grid ...

Starfish Robot Shows Robotic Introspection And Self-Modeling 2007-09-02 12:52:00 Starfish Robot Shows Robotic Introspection And Self-Modeling A new four-legged robot can automatically synthesize a predictive model of its own topology (where and how its body parts are connected), and then successfully move around. It can also use this "proprioceptive" sense to determine if a component has been damaged, and then model new movements that take the damage into account. ... If ...

1 Terabyte On 1 Disc 2007-09-02 12:45:00 How to fit 1TB of data on one CD-sized disc Blu-ray and HD DVD have pushed the limits of optical storage further than anyone thought possible. But a new technology has emerged which makes Blu-ray's 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it's able to fit an incredible 1TB of data onto one "TeraDisc" which is the same size as CDs and DVDs. That's 20 times the capacity of a maxed-out ...

Flying Saucer Goes On Sale In A Few Months 2007-09-01 13:32:00 Flying saucer 'nears US take-off' It has been called the vehicle of the future and the ultimate way to beat the rush hour commute. It is the M 200G, otherwise known as a "flying saucer", which is being built by a company in Davis, California called Moller International. It says the futuristic contraption will go on sale in a few months and hopes to expand production to 250 a year. Company ...

Super Muscular Mice Through Genetic Engineering 2007-08-31 05:34:00 'Mighty mice' made mightier The Johns Hopkins scientist who first showed that the absence of the protein myostatin leads to oversized muscles in mice and men has now found a second protein, follistatin, whose overproduction in mice lacking myostatin doubles the muscle-building effect. Results of Se-Jin Lee’s new study, appearing on August 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, show ...

Mechanical Heart Removed After Organ Heals Itself 2007-08-31 05:31:00 Mechanical heart removed after organ heals self A 15-year-old Camrose, Alta. girl has become one of the few patients to be taken off an artificial heart device because her own diseased heart healed itself. "It's changed everything," Melissa Mills told CTV's Canada AM. "I have such a respect for life now." Mills was sent to Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital last year after a sudden illness ...

Levitation Figured Out By Scientists 2007-08-31 05:28:00 Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible. Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a Harry Potter book, the University of St Andrews ...

Implanting Microchips In Soldier's Brains 2007-08-31 05:24:00 Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers' brainsThe Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers' brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips at Clemson University for the development of an implantable "biochip".Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size of a grain of rice, which measures and relays information on soldiers vital signs 24 hours a day, can be used to put them under surveillance even when they are off duty.But Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, C3B director and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering claims the that the invivo biosensors will save lives as first responders to the trauma scene could inject the biochip into the wounded victim and gather data almost immediately.He believes that the device has other long-term potential applications, such as monitoring astronauts’ vital signs during long-duration space ...