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Transfer data through your body

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:06:10 +0000

Transferring data from one device to another is a pain. If only we could just pick it up and move it with our hands.

Now, Pranav Mistry at MIT's Media lab has designed a system that pretty much fits that brief. With his device, called Sparsh, users can transfer data between two devices simply by touching the screens (see video above).

Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:04:56 +0000

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, as well as to powerful biochemical sensors that use optoelectronic chips.

Wash. U. Scientists Discover Mind-Reading

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:02:17 +0000

It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel: communicating with another person not by speaking or gesticulating, but simply by thinking.

Mental telepathy mumbo-jumbo, right?

Nope. According to scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine, this form of communication has been occurring for a while in their labs, marking the first occasions in which a person's thoughts have been channeled across a computer screen.

nhancement of Consolidated Long-Term Memory by Overexpression of Protein Kinase Mζ in the Neocortex

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:00:26 +0000

Memories are more easily disrupted than improved. Many agents can impair memories during encoding and consolidation. In contrast, the armamentarium of potential memory enhancers is so far rather modest. Moreover, the effect of the latter appears to be limited to enhancing new memories during encoding and the initial period of cellular consolidation, which can last from a few minutes to hours after learning. Here, we report that overexpression in the rat neocortex of the protein kinase C isozyme protein kinase Mζ (PKMζ) enhances long-term memory, whereas a dominant negative PKMζ disrupts memory, even long after memory has been formed.

How to imagine the tenth dimension

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:58:20 +0000

A very yell done video about how to imagine the tenth dimension.

Gravity Wave

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:55:53 +0000

Lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam on 6 May 2007.

As if the idea ideas of quantum entanglement and time travel weren’t difficult enough to wrap one’s

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:53:52 +0000

As if the idea ideas of quantum entanglement and time travel weren’t difficult enough to wrap one’s head around separately, two physicists at the Universtiy of Queensland in Australia have further compounded the headache by merging the two ideas via a new kind of quantum entanglement that links particles not across space, but across time.

H1N1 Finding Could Lead to Universal Flu Vaccine | Popular Science

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:49:59 +0000

It is said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and a group of researchers at Emory University and the University of Chicago are putting that mantra to the test in an effort to develop the “holy grail” of flu vaccines. The researchers have found that several patients that were infected during the 2009 H1N1 (don’t call it “swine”) flu pandemic have developed antibodies that are effective against a variety of influenza strains, potentially leading to a single vaccine that could provide immunity from most or even all flu.

Male pattern balding may be due to stem cell inactivation, according to Penn study

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:47:20 +0000

Given the amount of angst over male pattern balding, surprisingly little is known about its cause at the cellular level. In a new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by George Cotsarelis, MD, chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found that stem cells play an unexpected role in explaining what happens in bald scalp.

"Will Proof of an Adjacent Universe Be the Next Great Discovery?"

roclamatrix@gmail.com (Rocla) — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:38:31 +0000

"The idea of multiple universes is more than a fantastic invention—it appears naturally within several scientific theories, and deserves to be taken seriously."

Aurelien Barrau, a French particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).