http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=16358 .. A previous study had looked at using fMRI scans of parts of the brain linked to shape identification to correctly guess the a viewed image from a series of stock images. Jack Gallant, a University of California, Berkeley neuroscientist who led the current effort, describes this previous work as similar to “the magician’s [...]
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=16353 New breakthrough uses commercially achievable cold temperatures Researchers at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough in integrated circuits using a particle type called excitons that can operate at commercially available cold temperatures. The breakthrough could one day lead to computers that are capable of running much faster than the machines we use today. [...]
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=16340 3D printing is an interesting technology which allows engineers and designers to get a 3D object from a digital design that can be viewed in the real world. Artists also use 3D printing to make art that is designed digitally. A team of engineers and artists working at the University of Washington’s Solheim Rapid [...]
DailyTech – Honda Reveals ‘Personal Mobility’ Device. Honda recently showed off a new personal mobility technology that closely mimics a robotic unicycle designed to help disabled people move around. The new device, the U3-X, has a seat height a bit higher than an average person’s waistline, and riders must jump up a bit before they [...]
Anti-wi-fi paint offers security via BBC NEWS | Technology | Anti-wi-fi paint offers security. Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals. It means security-conscious wireless users could block their neighbours from being able to access their home network – without having to set up encryption. The [...]
DailyTech – Commercial Plasma Rocket Reaches 200 KW, an Important Milestone . Developed by former astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz, the engine could change a lot about how we interact with space. The new rocket, driven by plasma, is able to use cheaper fuels like neon, argon, or hydrogen, while providing finer control over thrust and [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Engineering Earth ‘is feasible’. A UK Royal Society study has concluded that many engineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change are “technically possible”. Such approaches could be effective, the authors said in their report. But they also stressed that the potential of geo-engineering should not divert [...]
DailyTech – International Space Updates, September 2009. Japanese companies Mitsubishi and IHI have agreed to join a $21 billion project that aims to create a solar-power generator in space that can send electricity back to Earth. “It sounds like a science-fiction cartoon, but solar power generation in space may be a significant alternative energy source [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Create World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser. The new laser breakthrough may one day usher in a new era in computing power by providing CPU makers with the ability to use light rather than electronic circuitry in processors. The key breakthrough was a method that the researchers devised to squeeze the light into a [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | We’re all mutants, say scientists. Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology. Scientists have been trying to get an accurate estimate of the mutation rate for over 70 years. However, only now has it [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Galaxy’s ‘cannibalism’ revealed. The vast Andromeda galaxy appears to have expanded by digesting stars from other galaxies, research has shown. When an international team of scientists mapped Andromeda, they discovered stars that they said were “remnants of dwarf galaxies”.
Liquid-OLED Offers More Light-Emitting Possibilities. Recently, researchers have fabricated a “liquid-OLED” – an OLED that uses a liquid organic semiconducting layer to transport charge. // var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = “pub-0536483524803400″; google_ad_output = “js”; google_feedback = “on”; google_max_num_ads = 2; google_ad_type = ‘text’; // ch news google_ad_channel =”0559369967+7377547201+0981327436″; google_hints = “liquid semiconducting layer organic”; [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Single molecule’s stunning image. The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers. The physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar techniques – but the new method even shows up chemical bonds. Understanding structure on [...]
Technology Review: The Smallest Laser Ever Made. Researchers have demonstrated the smallest laser ever, consisting of a nanoparticle just 44 nanometers across. The device is dubbed a “spaser” because it generates a form of radiation called surface plasmons. The technique allows light to be confined in very small spaces, and some physicists believe that spasers [...]
