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Anton Zeilinger's group (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Vienna) has just submitted an arXiv paper claiming that...
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Silicon Prairie NewsPhilip Rosedale: 'Work together and help each other.'Silicon Prairie NewsThe founder of Second Life wove the final speech of Day 1 of Big Omaha 2012 at KANEKO to suggest to conference-goers that, just perhaps, there are...
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Until 20 years ago, scientists interested in empirical work on consciousness – our private subjective experiences – hid it by minimising or eliminating the “c-word”, the use of which was a career-limiting…...
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Avatars and robots can now be used to help people "visit" remote locations via the internet - but this raises a host of moral and legal questions.
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The Jupiter Icy moons Explorer – JUICE is the first Large-class mission chosen as part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. It will be launched in 2022 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5, arriving at...
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Theorists claim they can prove that wavefunctions are real states.
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"A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure... Revital Cohen managed to track down and acquire a Heart-Lung Machine, a Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine. She connected the discarded organ replacement machines together and had them 'breathe' in closed circuits. The machines of The Immortal keep each other alive through circulation of electrical impulses, oxygen and artificial blood. (...) Cohen has long been investigating how machines, peripherals and even animals can work as extension of the body or substitutes of body parts. This time however, the human body has been removed from the scene. Yet, its presence and fragility can still be felt... (...) Far from being just assemblages of tubes and circuits, the machines intersect with our culture, fears and beliefs..." - Regine
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A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video...
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The next lecture is on Arpil 25, 2-3pm Pacific Time as shown on the Second Life® Viewer clock in the virtual world Second Life® (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nerice/162/69/62). Alexei A. Sharov Laboratory of Genetics National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) Baltimore, USA A Short Course on Biosemiotics: 3. The origin of mind Information and slides are at http://embryogenesisexplained.com/2012/04/a-short-course-on-biosemiotics-3.html
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A spherically symmetric interaction force between particles can cause them to self-assemble into a surprisingly asymmetric (chiral) pattern in two dimensions, according to simulations.
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Older people with robust brain wiring --- nerve fibers that connect different, distant brain areas --- can process information quickly and that this makes...
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Cellular memory system could bring better control to biotechnology...
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In The Avengers, Tony Stark manipulates objects in thin air. MIT Media Lab researchers Jinha Lee and Rehmi Post have actually created a similar...
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How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius.
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Although Lev Grossman’s article is mostly a regurgitatingly obnoxious form of worship of one of the more active frontmen for Transhumanism, Raymond Kurzweil, the article does reveal some extraordinary information. Namely, that there are very powerful and wealthy individuals whose goal it is to see the merging of man and machine, and the complete transformation of humanity into something much different than it currently is.
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Los Angeles Brain & Consciousness Group | What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain?
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Researchers have been able to store a single image in a cloud of rubidium atoms for several years.
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Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) went online in 2008, physicists have been conducting experiments, hoping to finally prove or disprove the existence of The God Particle, otherwise known as the Higgs Boson.
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What Frank Zappa's life has to do with e-waste, whale songs, and the black market for body parts.
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Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape.
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Cultivation of an active cognitive lifestyle through lifespan engagement in a rich array of mentally stimulating activities may help reduce dementia risk,...
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Cosmologists use the mathematical properties of eternity to show that although universe may last forever, it must have had a beginning...
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Thanks to the efforts of Bern, Dixon and Kosower as well many others cited in the SCIAM article in the March SCIAM physicists might finally be making progress toward a quantum theory of gravity.
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