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Swedish researchers are developing a photovoltaic device based on green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. The team deposit two aluminium electrodes with a tiny gap between them onto a silicon dioxide substrate. A droplet of green fluorescent protein is then ...

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Gary Green, director of the York Neuroimaging Center, will deliver a talk on “Recent advances in increasing the sensitivity of NMR and MRI by four orders of magnitude”.  The use of parahydrogen for spin transfer to nuclei in other molecules ...

This summer, 80 students from 35 nations were challenged to apply innovations in exponentially advancing technologies to solve some of the world’s “grand challenges” with a focus on food, water, energy, upcycle, and space industries. On Monday, September 13, at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET, ...

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Amazon | The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into ...

Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, which is “widely considered to be the ...

This proof-of-concept version of the photoelectrochemical cell, which was used for laboratory tests, contains a photoactive solution made up of a mix of self-assembling molecules (in a glass cylinder held in place by metal clamp) with two electrodes protruding from ...

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of an epileptic patient's brain superimposed with the locations of two kinds of electrodes: conventional ECoG electrodes (yellow) to help locate the source of his seizures so surgeons could operate to prevent them, and two grids ...

Sociologist Clifford Nass, who’s just published the book The Man Who Lied to his Laptop, in which he uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved. More here: New book says we relate to our computers like ...

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(InTouch Health) Mobile robots are now being used in hundreds of hospitals nationwide as the eyes, ears and voices of doctors who cannot be there in person. They are being rolled out in workplaces, allowing employees in disparate locales to communicate more ...

(Dohduhdah/Wikipedia Commons) The active ingredient of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, has been shown to reduce anxiety and improve mood in people with cancer. researchers from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have found. Volunteers reported feeling less depressed and anxious two weeks after receiving psilocybin. Six months later, ...

Optical engineers at the University of Central Florida have developed a system that improves the bandwidth of transmission via optical fibers, such as those used in transmitting cable TV and Internet data, to compensate for attenuation (signal losses) in the fiber. Their device ...

The first quantum memory that stores and releases entanglement has been built by researchers at the University of Geneva. Their device consists of neodymium atoms buried in a crystal of ytterbium silicate, which when cooled, can absorb and store photons.They created a pair ...

The Rapid Equipping Force, a part of the Army designed to provide urgently needed equipment to commanders in military operations, says it wants a cargo robot that can transport supplies to troops. There are military robots in various states of development ...

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Derek Jacoby graduated from Rice University with a psychology degree and a lot of software development experience.  This led him to a decade at Microsoft, first as a usability engineer, then a program manager, then to Microsoft Research where he ...

Bill Bing is a graduate of Dartmouth College (bachelor’s degree in philosophy, 2001) with experience in startup companies and venture capital.  He is deeply interested in better understanding consumer behavior and using game mechanics to motivate customers and improve their ...

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Amazon | The three central questions of philosophy and science: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? No one can make a discussion of ...

Amazon | After a gig investigating “locative art” for the “overly wealthy and dangerously curious” Hubertus Bigend, founder of the trend-forecasting firm Blue Ant (Spook Country, 2007), Hollis Henry finds herself once again under Bigend’s employ. This ...

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UCLA researchers have fabricated the fastest graphene transistor to date, using a new fabrication process with a nanowire as a self-aligned gate. Self-aligned gates are a key element in modern transistors, which are semiconductor devices used to amplify and switch electronic signals. Gates ...

A new “smart materials” process — Multiple Memory Material Technology — developed by University of Waterloo engineering researchers promises to revolutionize the manufacture of diverse products such as medical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), printers, hard drives, automotive components, valves and ...

Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are ...

(Heath group/Caltech) Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique — using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick — to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which was used to obtain the first ...