1 / 1 GOCE in orbit. ESA /AOES Medialab The spacecraft has been mapping the Earth’s gravity but ran out of fuel a month ago and has been losing altitude ever since Thursday 07 November 2013 A one-tonne satellite… Read More ›
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Desperation Mode: Yunanistan (Greece) to Sell Expired Food to citizens
Tuesday, 27 August 2013 In just a few years we’ve seen the country of Yunanistan (Greece) go from being a popular tourist destination in one of the world’s largest economic regions, to being on the brink of complete and utter… Read More ›
Stolen NASA laptop contained private info on 10,000+ employees
By Stephen C. Webster Monday, December 17, 2012 15:55 EST A laptop computer stolen from a vehicle of a NASA employee on Halloween contained sensitive, private information on more than 10,000 current and former NASA employees, an internal report… Read More ›
Engineers pave the way towards 3D printing of personal electronics
Contact: Anna Blackaby a.blackaby@warwick.ac.uk 44-024-765-75910 University of Warwick Engineers pave the way towards 3D printing of personal electronics Scientists are developing new materials which could one day allow people to print out custom-designed personal electronics such as games controllers which… Read More ›
Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise: where not even governments can project the direction humanity
Originally posted Sep 2012 The exponential advancement of technology has reached a critical point where not even governments can project the direction humanity is headed. Some researchers forecast an eventual singularity where the lines between humans and machines are blurred…. Read More ›
Technology for the body on the road to cyborgs?
October 8, 2012 Sarah Bakewell Speakers at a symposium on body-enhancement technology raised the idea that we may converge with our technology to the point that a superhuman entity emerges. The Terminator … an infamous cyborg. On September 2, 2010,… Read More ›
Sick of intrusive airport security already? Just wait for the next generation of scanners which can read EVERY molecule in your body
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:13:41 EST, 6 October 2012| UPDATED:13:41 EST, 6 October 2012 Security staff at airports can already force us to go through metal detectors and use X-rays to see under our clothes. But a new technology being… Read More ›
Hi-tech CCTV can recognise faces from half a mile away
High–definition CCTV cameras that can identify and track faces from half–a–mile away could turn Britain into a Big Brother society if left unregulated, the first surveillance commissioner has warned. CCTV Photo: ALAMY By Telegraph reporters 7:08AM BST 03 Oct 2012… Read More ›
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
By The Christian Science Monitor Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:38 EDT In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out… Read More ›
Turning Chemistry Inside-Out: Self-Assembling Smart Microscopic Reagents to Pioneer Pourable Electronics
ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — First place in an EU competitive call on “Unconventional Computing” was awarded to a collaborative proposal coordinated by Prof. John McCaskill from the RUB Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The project MICREAgents plans to build… Read More ›
Phosphate additives pose a risk to health
Excessive consumption of phosphate is damaging to health. Therefore, food that contains phosphate additives should be labeled, as recommended by Eberhard Ritz and coauthors in their article in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International [Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; (109… Read More ›
Half in US see another country emerging as world’s technological leader ( 2009 )
Public release date: 3-Mar-2009 New national survey DURHAM, N.C. -– Half of all Americans expect another country to emerge this century as the world’s leader in addressing technological challenges that range from the economy to global warming, according to a… Read More ›