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December
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NEWS
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DNA
patterns
DNA is a versatile molecule with many potential
technological applications because it can organize itself
into all manner of useful patterns...
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Optical
circuits simplified
Computer circuits that use light to transmit information
would be much faster and would use less power than today's
electronic circuitry. There are a host of challenges in
making practical optical circuits, however, because light
beams interact with each other only weakly...
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Nanotech
medicine
Nanotechnology has the potential to improve medicine
in many areas. A pair of research developments move nanotechnology
treatments for cancer and degenerative eye problems closer
to reality...
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Robotic
consciousness
Although we are still a long way from artificial
minds, researchers from Meiji University in Japan have
moved a step in that direction. They have built a pair
of robots that harbor rudimentary consciousnesses...
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Bits
and pieces
A
camera that eyes quantum bits, an artificial cell component,
better dye solar cells, a nanosensor for protein shapes,
DNA scaffolding, and micro cubes. |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline
by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting
along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making
up questions, and telling stories.
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How
It Works: Quantum computing: qubits
Photons, electrons and atoms, oh my! These particles are
the raw materials for qubits, the basic building blocks
of quantum computers. |
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SMALLEY'S
RESEARCH WATCH |
| January
6, 2006 |
Dangerous
thoughts ahead
The
Web site Edge -- that online collection of
thoughts from the best and brightest minds
of the English-speaking world of science and
technology -- has posted its annual question:
What is your dangerous idea?
The 119 responses range from politically
dangerous to politically incorrect, scientifically
insightful to scientifically heretical, and
emotionally satisfying to emotionally repulsive.
Here are some that caught my eye...
December
23, 2005
The
world is your farm
December
16, 2005
Morphing
bubbles
December
11, 2005
Humor divides brains by gender |
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"In
most areas of science and technology, the origins
of new breakthroughs can still be found in the work
of a small number of people -- or even a single
person -- working at their own pace on their own
questions, pursuing things that interest them. "
- Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University |
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to Kevin from
GoldBamboo.com
for technical support |
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