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************************* Nanobot programmable dermal display animation developed KurzweilAI.net Sept. 24, 2005 ************************* Robert A. Freitas and Gina "Nanogirl" Miller have developed an animation of the "programmable dermal display" described in Freitas' Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities book. A population of about 3 billion display pixel robots would be permanently implanted a fraction of a mm under the surface of the skin of the back of the hand,... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4874&m=9906 ************************* University of Denmark Scientists Develop Hydrogen Tablet Fuel Cell Today Sept. 20, 2005 ************************* Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have invented a technology which may be an important step towards the hydrogen economy: a hydrogen tablet that effectively stores hydrogen in an inexpensive and safe material in solid form: in ammonia absorbed efficiently in sea salt.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4873&m=9906 ************************* Quantum-dot syntheses developed KurzweilAI.net Sept. 23, 2005 ************************* New synthesis methods by University at Buffalo researchers allow for scalable, rapid creation of large quantities of non-toxic, robust, water-dispersible quantum dots for bioimaging. The quantum dots also emit light in longer wavelengths, in the red region of the spectrum, making them capable of imaging processes deeper in the body, and they... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4872&m=9906 ************************* Magnetic diamonds for medicine UPI Sept. 22, 2005 ************************* Low-cost magnetic carbon nanoparticles could prove useful in electronic and medical applications, such as enhancing the resolution of MRI scans and biocompatible drug delivery.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4871&m=9906 ************************* Brain imaging ready to detect terrorists, say neuroscientists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sept. 21, 2005 ************************* Brain-imaging techniques that reveal when a person is lying are now reliable enough to identify criminals, with 99% accuracy, claim University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers. When someone lies, their brain inhibits them from telling the truth, and this makes the frontal lobes more active, which can be monitored with functional... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4870&m=9906 ************************* Scientists create artificial proteins from evolutionary 'rules' KurzweilAI.net Sept. 23, 2005 ************************* Scientists have created artificial proteins based on a set of simple "rules" that nature appears to use to design proteins. The artificial proteins look and function just like their natural counterparts. The UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers tested the "rules" gleaned from the evolutionary record by feeding them into a computer program... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4869&m=9906 ************************* Researchers predict infinite genomes KurzweilAI.net Sept. 23, 2005 ************************* Researchers might never fully describe some bacteria and viruses--because their genomes are infinite, according to scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), writing in the September 19-23 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). With collaborators at Chiron Corporation, Harvard Medical... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4868&m=9906 ************************* A Sci-Fi Future Awaits the Court Wired News Sept. 22, 2005 ************************* At John Roberts' confirmation hearings last week, there weren't enough discussions about science fiction. Technologies that are science fiction today will become constitutional questions before Roberts retires from the bench. The same goes for technologies that cannot even be conceived of now. And many of these questions involve privacy.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4867&m=9906 ************************* Intel claims power breakthrough vnunet.com Sept. 21, 2005 ************************* Intel has announced a new chip manufacturing process which it claims could dramatically cut power consumption, and boost battery life by up to 1,000 per cent.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4866&m=9906
