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Feb 9, 2016
In honor of Chinese New Year, here are 540 dancing robots!
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
In celebration to the Chinese New Year — here are the dancing bot dance team.
Here’s an idea for next year’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Feb 9, 2016
Why don’t we have a vaccine for Zika?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Interesting. Hope they cure this!
Suresh Mahalingam and Michael Rolph discuss how the development of a Zika vaccine compares with the other mosquito-borne viruses.
Feb 9, 2016
Scientists Found a Way to Control Machines With Your Mind, No Brain Surgery Required
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, military, neuroscience
The US military is looking for ways to insert microscopic devices into human brains to help folks communicate with machines, like prosthetic limbs, with their minds. And now, DARPA’s saying scientists have found a way to do just that—without ripping open patients’ skulls.
In the DARPA-funded study, researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a device that could help people use their brains to control machines. These machines might include technology that helps patients control physical disabilities or neurological disorders. The results were published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
In the study, the team inserted a paperclip-sized object into the motor cortexes of sheep. (That’s the part of the brain that oversees voluntary movement.) The device is a twist on traditional stents, those teeny tiny tubes that surgeons stick in vessels to improve blood flow.
Feb 8, 2016
Nanoparticle therapy that uses LDL and fish oil kills liver cancer cells
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health
Another cancer therapy; healthcare seems to be on a roll.
An experimental nanoparticle therapy that combines low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and fish oil preferentially kills primary liver cancer cells without harming healthy cells, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.
Feb 8, 2016
Cancer moonshot success depends on ditching D.C. rules
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: biotech/medical
If there was ever lifetime commitment & act of love; its remembering those that were robbed from us on a battlefield called “Cancer”.
When we recognized the Ebola emergency, we adapted. Saving cancer victims is just as urgent.
Feb 8, 2016
Teen fighting cancer achieving high-tech dream
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, entertainment
Great story; I hope it helps many talented game developers realize what you mean to kids; and especially those children who fight cancer.
A lot of people are coming together right now to help a teenager who is fighting cancer in a local hospital. It’s not just his family or doctors and nurses either. Complete strangers are giving their all to help him accomplish his high-tech dream.
Dangerous; now they’re a target.
Hackers, making good on a threat, published contact information for 20,000 FBI employees Monday afternoon, just one day after posting similar data on almost 10,000 Department of Homeland Security employees.”
Feb 8, 2016
Cybersecurity Challenges, Opportunities Discussed at Dedication of Expanded National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, quantum physics
If Russia, China, etc. upgrades their infrastructure to Quantum before US and it’s does; today’s breaches will not even compare to this scenario.
The push to bring more technology-related businesses to the state has officials hoping for long-term growth over places like Fairfax County, Va., where the federal government has already made substantial technological investment.
After the ceremony, an expert panel discussed some of the opportunities and challenges facing information infrastructure, the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors, and how to increase consumers’ cybersecurity confidence.
Feb 8, 2016
Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics
Very nice; another article on photonic crystal.
Scientists have created a crystal structure that boosts the interaction between tiny bursts of light and individual electrons, an advance that could be a significant step toward establishing quantum networks in the future.
