Source: Dailytech The Savannah Research National Laboratory have created a multipurpose new material, composed of tiny glass bubbles, which behaves both like a fluid and a solid
Source: weirdasianews The South Korean government plans to build two robot-themed parks close to Seoul—one in the bustling seaport of Incheon and another in Masan—by the year 2013.
Source: weirdasianews Scientists at Hiroshima University’s Institute for Amphibian Biology in Hiroshima, western Japan, have bred transparent frogs whose organs can be seen through their skin.
Source: weirdasianews They created the flowers by implanting the gene that leads to the synthesis of the blue pigment Delphinidin in pansies. The pigment does not exist naturally in roses.
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Source: Dailytech European astronomers have continued the run of discoveries of smaller planets with the discovery of a trio of “super-Earths” rotating around the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years from Earth towards the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations. The new planets have masses of 4.2, 6.7, and 9.4 times the mass of Earth and [...]
Source: weirdasianews Recently, there has been an increase in executions of North Koreans who are caught using or possessing cell phones. Read the entire article at the source.
This is pretty cool, *when it works. It lets you easily install Fedora in a usb pendrive as a live system. Get it here: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator However, as it’s Linux, there’s of course trouble and problems. If you can’t get it to boot, here’s the fix: http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?t=4365 cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdc (Change sdc to your drive [...]
Source: Dailytech Los Alamos researchers are putting this power to work with a program dubbed PetaVision. The program was created to model neuron and synapse interaction in the visual cortex of the human brain. The brain uses over a billion neurons and trillions of synapses alone to process the visual information it receives and is [...]
Source: Dailytech The new system, known as Gestix, eliminates the need for complex and largely ineffective sterilization procedures on today’s OR touch screens. When surgeons first start with the system, they train it and learn to use it by learning to move their hand in one of eight directions away from a neutral area, fast. [...]
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Sources: (click for more info and pictures) – Dailytech – Boston The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander may have found ice
Source: Yahoo News “I am talking about loving relationships about 40 years from now,” David Levy, author of the book “Love + sex with robots”, told AFP at an international conference held last week at the University of Maastricht in the south-east of the country. “… when there are robots that have also emotions, personality, [...]
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Source: Dailytech Very interesting news supporting the evolution theories. Over 44,000 generations were observed and only minor mutations were observed, as is typical in these kinds of studies. Typical beneficial mutations — larger cell size, faster growth rates, and lower peak population densities — were observed. Then at generation 31,500 something shocking happened. The bacteria [...]
