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Feed SubscriptionSingle Green Fluorescent Protein-expressing cell is basis of living laser device
It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed.
Read More »LulzSec Touts Hacktivism And NATO Considers War
LulzSec is in the news for hacking Sony, Nintendo, and PBS, among others. And now it seems the group is tied to hacktivist group Anonymous
Read More »Robo-Simulator Gives Shaky New Surgeons The Strokes Of Smooth Operators
Hands on surgical training (HoST) actually helps move the hands of surgeons in training to help them experience what it's like to make the cut. But are they actually learning? A teaching method that allows novice med students to instantly move with the same dexterity as the world's most seasoned surgeons sounds like the kind of science fiction quackery that'd get patients killed.
Read More »Hands-Off Training: Google’s Self-Driving Car Holds Tantalizing Promise, but Major Roadblocks Remain
Long a staple of science fiction, self-driving vehicles that act as robot chauffeurs have been a cultural dream for decades.
Read More »The Myth of Evil Aliens
With the Allen Telescope Array run by the SETI Institute in northern California, the time is coming when we will encounter an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). Contact will probably come sooner rather than later because of Moore’s Law (proposed by Intel’s co-founder Gordon E. Moore), which posits a doubling of computing power every one to two years
Read More »iFive: Groupon IPO, Google’s IP Theft, Chrome-OS Netbooks For Students, EU Rejects Celeb Privacy Law, MS-Skype Deal Worries
It's been ten years since Douglas Adams, science fiction author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, died suddenly and Twitter is alive with comments and references to the man and his works. Google has chosen a different theme for today's Doodle , though: The would-be 117th birthday of Martha Graham, the U.S
Read More »Walking the Line Between Good and Evil: The Common Thread of Heroes and Villains
Mythology, science fiction, and comic books are chock full of stories of heroes and their battles against the ills of society, the eternal struggle between good and evil.
Read More »Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud-Connected Homes in New Smart City
The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT , which calls itself "one of the world's leading smart city and urban development technology providers" has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while--currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely
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