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Writing in 1925, British scientist A.M. Low predicted that we'd eat breakfast via feeding tubes and bald would be beautiful. 
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would Usain Bolt, by any other name, be as fast? How much do our names determine what we do in life?
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Most of today's continents (left) will migrate toward the North Pole and collide to form a new landmass called Amasia (right).
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Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have uncovered the brain processes by which humans learn to understand the values of others and use this information to predict their decision-making behavior. Using fMRI scans, researchers found that "humans simulate the decisions of other people using two brain signals encoded in the prefrontal cortex, an area responsible for higher cognition."
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Religion is often thought of as psychological defense against bad behavior, but researchers have recently found that the effect of religion on pro-social behaviors may actually be driven by the belief in hell and supernatural punishment rather than faith in heaven and spiritual benevolence.
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No more drudgery and delays: In 40 years, airplanes will offer panoramic views and silky flights, while airports will become seamless centers of commerce and entertainment.
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Concept for a gravity wheel inside a 21st century USS Enterprise. Visit BuildTheEnterprise.org to learn how to build the 1st generation USS Enterprise over the next 20 year with 1g gravity. It's a spacecraft, a spaceport, and a space station all in one! http://io9.com/5909774/engineer-thinks-we-could-build-a-real-starship-enterprise-in-20-years
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Traditional computing, with its ever more microscopic circuitry etched in silicon, will soon reach a final barrier: Moore's law, which dictates that the amount of computing power you can squeeze into the same space will double every 18 months, is on course to run smack into a silicon wall due to overheating, caused by electrical charges running through ever more tightly packed circuits.
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Kristian Hammond, Narrative Science's chief technology officer, has made some bold predictions about the future of journalism. Within 15 years, he says, 90% of journalism will be written by machines; within five years, a robot will have won a Pulitzer Prize. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Unpacking humanity's collective conscience through 'the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.' In 1964, legendary science...
's comment March 16, 2012 8:01 AM
I think what he really predicted was the "Galaxy Tab".
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When oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico in late April 2010, friends asked George Haller whether he was tracking its movement.
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If you’ve ever struggled to imagine how life will change over the next century thanks to technology, take comfort — you’re not alone. Over 100 year ago, some French artists tried to do the same thing.
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![1 In 10 People Believes The World Will End In 2012 [Infographic] | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/E7AtVa-TdNQbqEfSzXgFjzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Armageddon is upon us, according to...a surprising number of people!
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When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group. But it's been challenging to quantify the underlying trends that dictate how individuals make predictions, given they may only have seen a small number of fights or have limited memory. In a new study, scientists at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison develop a computational approach to determine whether individuals behave predictably.
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Predicting the final Olympic medal count is a black art. Sport, with all its intricacies and vagaries, is always susceptible to variations in form, weather conditions and simple random events. But we like a challenge!
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A detailed hour long presentation by Peter Diamandis, author of Abundance has become available online. For those of us who have not yet had a chance to attend Singularity University, it offers a glimpse at the content and ideas that students receive.
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New research has shown how a certain region of the brain helps predict trends and how it sees pattern in random things.
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Why do we pick certain baby names and what can that tell us about future trends?
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In this paper, our goal is to (a) survey some of the legal contexts within which violence risk assessment already plays a prominent role, (b) explore whether developments in neuroscience could potentially be used to improve our ability to predict violence, and (c) discuss whether neuropredictive models of violence create any unique legal or moral problems above and beyond the well worn problems already associated with prediction more generally. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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You may not know what you need to know to change behavior, but the brains of others just might. Having neuroscience harness the power of the unconscious to help motivate people to quit smoking and therefore live longer is both astonishing and humbling. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show that a suspect is a smoker, takes drugs, or has handled explosives, among other things. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Pompi Hazarika and David Russell describe the noteworthy progress that has recently been made.
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Researchers have tapped into the extraordinary power of carbon "nanotubes" to increase the speed of biological sensors, a technology that might one day allow a doctor to routinely perform lab tests in minutes, speeding diagnosis and treatment while...
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As told by Arthur C. Clarke's 1990 novel The Ghost from the Grand Banks, 2012 is the year that would see the Titanic resurrected from the ocean floor. But the year is now 2012, and the Titanic continues to sit 12,000 feet below the ocean surface, rusting more with every passing year (indeed, it's predicted here that by 2045, only the hull will remain). The likelihood that any of us will live to see a resurrected Titanic outside a James Cameron movie now seems very slim.