Le musée de Boston et Dassault Systems sont en train de construire un outil 3D pour rassembler et faire visiter le site de Gizeh et ses collections. Une partie du travail est mise en ligne dans un site Internet superbe.
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A new BBC Four special follows an international team of scientists trying to unlock they mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanism regarded as the world's oldest computer.
A must read and a must watch video...
WASHINGTON — A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. 
The largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body goes on display this week in London. How accurate were they?
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Cold beer is cherished around the world, especially during the warmer months of the year. Frosty mugs and insulated sleeves known as beer ko... 
When the brainiacs at MIT get bored, they light up the place by turning the tallest building on campus into an iconic video game. Read this blog post by Christopher MacManus on Crave. 
PayPal introduces credit card reader for smart phones.
Introducing PayPal HereTM, the simple way to accept credit and debit cards, PayPal and checks - anywhere you do business.
Une étude internationale pilotée en France par Christophe Tzourio a cherché les variabilités génétiques associées à la réduction du volume de l'hippocampe. Pour cela, les génomes et les données IRM de plus de 9000 personnes âgées de 56 à 84 ans, ont été analysés afin de détecter une association éventuelle entre certaines mutations et la diminution du volume de l'hippocampe. Les données des participants (avec et sans démence) ont été extraites de huit grandes cohortes européennes et nord-américaines.
Ces résultats ont été obtenus grâce à des études épidémiologiques analysant les génomes et les IRM cérébrales de 9232 participants âgés de 56 à 84 ans. En France, environ 2000 IRM... 
Des gènes qui ont un impact sur le vieillissement du cerveau et de la mémoire ont été mis en évidence pour la première fois par des équipes internationales dans des... Robin Good: Back at the end of February Microsoft Research announced IllumiShare a new tool that enables two folks to share any physical or digital object on any surface.
Illumishare utilizes a lamp to light your desktop and a camera-projector right above it enables remote users to see what you are doing on it and vice-versa.
Steve Clayton writes: "IllumiShare uses a camera-projector pair where the camera captures video of the local workspace and sends it to the remote space and the projector projects video of the remote workspace onto the local space.
With IllumiShare people can sketch together using real ink and paper, remote meeting attendees can interact with conference room whiteboards, and children can have remote play dates in which they interact with real toys."
Cnet reports: "Imagine having a real-time card game with a friend thousands of miles away without looking at a computer screen.
Despite having the innocent appearance of a lamp, the low-cost device actually shares the surface it's illuminating over the Internet.
This means you could sketch a portrait with someone else using real paper, or create a real-time dynamic learning scenario that enables a remote tutor to teach a child much more effectively than ever before.
You could even play a game of Canasta with your grandmother if you wanted to."
Fore more info check: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=159525  Via Robin Good, Gust MEES 
La médiatisation a néanmoins favorisé la prise de conscience des dangers liés à ces nouvelles technologies et l'émergence de solutions.
Il est désormais possible de faire surveiller son réseau informatique comme on fait surveiller ses locaux et d'intervenir en temps réel pour se protéger des malveillances détectées. Il est également devenu possible de s'assurer contre les conséquences financières de ces intrusions et malveillances.
Plusieurs assureurs proposent depuis peu des contrats spécifiques pour garantir les cyber-risques.
Cependant tant la nature des garanties, que leur montant et les primes sont très dépendants du niveau de prévention mis en place par l'entreprise. 
Researchers at the Monash Vision Group are developing implantable brain chips to help the blind see. 
Detecting breast cancer’s fingerprint in a droplet of blood
McGill team develops new technology that can accurately measure protein biomarkers... |
A virtual trip through Egypt's Giza Plateau includes aerial 3D views, cross sections of the ground and passages through walls.
A MUST SEE: http://giza3d.3ds.com/#discover
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Paintings of the Mayan king and astronomical hieroglyphs unearthed in a room buried under a collapsed building...
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Des nanoparticules entièrement synthétiques stimulent une réponse immunitaire contre la nicotine, et les anticorps empêchent alors la molécule issue du tabac d’atteindre le cerveau, là ou elle est active.
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Archaeologists recently found a 2,700-year-old pot stash, so we know humans have been smoking weed for thousands of years. But it was only about 20 years ago that neuroscientists began to understand how it affects our brains.
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MIT researchers have developed a glass to resist glare, fog, and dirt using tiny cones etched into its surface.
The glass is created by depositing thin layers of material on the surface of the glass and then selectively etching that material away. The end result creates tiny cones on the glass taller than they are wide that allow the glass to prevent reflections and also repel water.
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Jenny Tung from Duke University in North Carolina studied rhesus macaques and found that social stress resulted in their immune systems suffering. 
A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has passed an important research milestone by succ...
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A beautiful prominence eruption producing a coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on April 16, 2012. Such eruptions are o... 
Software with access to all the data gathered by tiny sensors in your smartphone, combined with an Internet full of information, could figure out all kinds of things about you. 
A new University of British Columbia study finds that the way individuals experience the universal emotion of pride directly impacts how racist and homophobic their attitudes toward other people are.
"The kind of pride a leader tends to feel may partly determine whether he or she supports minority-group members or disregards them," says Tracy, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar.
Le MIT est un endroit mythique de l'informatique. C'est au MIT que John McCarthy, l'inventeur du langage LISP, a fait ses travaux sur l'intelligence artificielle. 
One of the satellite's first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica – when 3200 sq km of ice disintegrated within a few days due to mechanical instabilities of the... |
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