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How Dolphins Could Help Us Communicate with Aliens
If we could talk to the animals, we might gain insight into what it means to communicate with an extraterrestrial species.
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3D Printer Makes Bone from CT Scan
Orthopedic surgical trainee Mark Frame 3D printed a model of a bone from a CT scan, as preparation for surgery, for a fraction of the usual price of such a model.
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Your Big Blue Brain on a Silicon Chip
The new experimental "brain chips" developed by researchers at IBM and DARPA represent a fundamental breakthrough in computing power. If these brain chips are ever commercialized, they would make possible what are essentially thinking, artificial brains.
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The Book is Dead. Long Live the Book!
Not surprisingly, the publishing industry is full of bibliophiles who love the body of the printed book almost as much as its soul. Rick Richter, the founder and president of Ruckus Mobile Media, is the rare exception.
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Have Scientists Found HIV's Achilles Heal?
12 minutes ago
What's the Latest Development? A team of Japanese scientists have discovered a way to circumvent one of HIV's most potent defense mechanisms. The discovery involves a family of chemical compounds known as pradimicin A1 which stick strongly to the exterior coating of the HIV virus, called mannose ... Read More
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Heart Disease Tied to Y Chromosome
about 3 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? In a survey of 3,000 British men, scientists have found an important link between a particular version of the Y sex chromosome and heart disease, meaning the predisposition to illness is passed down from father to son. Researchers found that 90 percent of the men ... Read More
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This Is Your Brain On Sports
7 days ago
What's the Big Idea? On June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while high on LSD: “The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn’t,” he noted. Five years later, he was traded to the Yankees. Fourteen years later ... Read More
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Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer to Reality
10 days ago
As Dr. Michio Kaku has been predicting for years, we are inching ever closer to producing virtual reality contact lenses that will add a layer of interactive, rich information over our mundane visual landscape. The newest innovation comes from a joint venture between DARPA (Defense Advanced ... Read More
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Twitter – A Wiser Way to Censor?
11 days ago
On Thursday, Twitter posted a new censorship policy, stating that it will now have the ability to “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” This is a change from Twitter’s previous policy of removing posts globally if it ... Read More
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Brain Bugs: Hallucinations, Forgotten Faces, and Other Cognitive Quirks
15 days ago
What's the Big Idea? If seeing is believing, then how do we come to know? One common misperception holds that vision springs directly from the eyes. True, the eyes, ears, and skin bombard us with a constant stream of information. But sensory input is only the first step in a complex journey ... Read More
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Moving a Cemetery: How to Drag Higher Education into the 21 Century
16 days ago
Our university system is bloated, inefficient, too expensive, and increasingly out-of-sync with a digital society and global economy. Dr. Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard, is on a mission to change the way we think about higher education. In his new ... Read More
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Better Than Free: How Lynda.com Made a Pay Wall Pay
16 days ago
Lynda Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com, explains how she broke all the rules and made it to the top. Read More
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String Theory Is The Only Game In Town
18 days ago
After 50 years of smashing atoms it's high time that we'll find the Higgs Boson and pop the champagne, says Dr. Michio Kaku. But what will it mean? Dr. Kaku says String Theory is the only game in town that has the ability to offer a Theory of Everything. Read More
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The Cyberspace Conundrum
20 days ago
China and Russia made the news recently for their relentless cyberattacks on US cyber systems. Earlier this month, viruses originating from these countries are blamed for the theft of personal banking information belonging to students and faculty members at the City College of San Francisco ... Read More
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This Is Your Brain During Orgasm
21 days ago
Editor's Note: A writer by trade, Kayt Sukel volunteered to masturbate in an MRI scanner for science. The point of the study? Neuroscientist Barry Komisaruk and sex therapist Nan Wise wanted to know what exactly goes on in the brain when a woman orgasms. Could the sensory cortex be activated by ... Read More
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How the Internet will Change in 2012
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Internet industry research service Business Insider Intelligence peeks into 2012 and, among other things, predicts Google will release a $200 tablet; Facebook will hit 1 billion users; Twitter will build a huge business; Amazon will post serious losses but enjoy ... Read More
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