B.Tech. course for hearing impaired
In Virudhunagar district will start an integrated B.Tech programme for ... The courses offered included Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering ... read more

Don`t neglect science and tech: Mukesh
To emerge as a global player, it should not just rely on its economy, industry and polity, but also focus on exploring new frontiers in science and technology ... read more

Chinese Farmers to get Science and Tech Training
The government in China has earmarked a significant boost in the funding devoted to providing science training for their millions of small farmers ... read more

Year of the Threats
As I read this what my favorite article was that I put up over the year and I don't really have one because I like several areas of science and tech more or ... read more

Sci-Tech 2006
In 2006 the world witnessed a whole lot of developments in the field of Science and Technology. Space was prominent ... read more

Microsoft Boise can't find enough local engineers
... Enrollment in high-tech degrees is declining. Enrollment in science and math is declining. Kids are afraid of math and science ... read more

Brain Drain Version 2006
It is an open secret that despite its enormous reserves of hi-tech manpower, India ... abominable work ethics on to the system has virtually enervated Indian science ... read more

Breakthrough Science And Tech Inventions
Belgian-born Julius Nieuwland (1878-1936) was a man of the cloth--and a man of artificial fabric. In 1929, the Notre Dame and Catholic ... read more

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

GT Duo Writes Companion to Top Bioinformatics Text
Georgia Tech Professor Mark Borodovsky and Research Scientist Svetlana Ekisheva have ... top books in the field of bioinformatics, the science combining biology ... read more



Socialism and the Knowledge Economy: Cuban Biotechnology
... of biotechnology firms; and the dependence of the US high-tech sector on ... investment will spontaneously result in a fruitful interaction between science and the ... read more

Tech-science center plan floated
A local nonprofit group hopes to bring a world-class science and technology center to San Luis Obispo County that it says would become a must-see tourist ... read more

Animal lover descends on SHSU
In 1997, McMillan received his Bachelor of Science degree in animal science from Texas Tech University. He earned his Master of ... read more

Tech-savvy 'hacks' invent good ideas for Yahoo sites
Events like Hack Day used to occur mostly in Silicon Valley, with its concentration of tech companies and schools with strong computer science programs ... read more

Want to know the real smell of money?
In a recent study, a team of Virginia Tech environmental engineers explained ... studying odors associated with metals under a National Science Foundation grant ... read more

Tech Industry Has Ulterior Motive Regarding H-1B Visas
If there were a shortage, salaries would be going up, but starting salaries for bachelor's degree graduates in computer science and electrical engineering ... read more

'Molecular Condom' May One Day Offer High-Tech Protection
It sounds like science fiction, but researchers at the University of Utah are working to bring this new type of "molecular condom" into reality ... read more

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Hi-tech jerseys will make it tough to hide goose eggs
"We have the technology" can be a frightening phrase when scientists start poking around in the world of sports. Researchers in ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0612110142dec11,1,2127929.story?coll=chi-technology-hed

The perfect present for science lovers
... The state's strategy is to lure away the high tech/science culture, for they see this as an opening to an opportunity both intellectual and economic.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/columns/article_1379284.php

Biotech, Med Tech Business Models: Investors, Patients Deserve
... venture capital also referenced a significant new book called "Science Business" by ... when we talk about advanced business models for biotech and med tech.
http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=16167

Declining level of IT grads could hurt high-tech sector
... While SHRC cites declining enrolment in science and engineering as one of the key factors that will hurt Canada's high-tech sector in the future, a couple of ...
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=41472

Singapore Science Centre, IDA Launch iFuture
... futuristic high-tech gadgets from iFuture, both exhibitions will come together to showcase mankind's intelligence, inventiveness and ingenuity in science and ...
http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,12595,srn,4,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html

Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Symposium
... the Predictive Health Initiative, said, "Existing and emerging science and technology ... H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory ...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/euhs-etp121106.php

Reshaping how elementary schools teach science
... Improving science education is seen as critical to success in the global ... revolves around technology, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals and other high-tech industries ...
http://www.projo.com/news/content/Science_teachers11_12-11-06_DU37QPA.28debd7.html

What's Up In Life Science Investments? Find Out At CED Forum
Life science entrepreneurs seeking venture capital can gain insight into what kinds of technology and companies venture firms are seeking at a ...
http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=15737

Tech, science school spells hard work for kids
... DSST opened in fall 2004 with a goal of reaching out to students typically underrepresented in science and tech programs - girls, minorities and those from ...
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5192969,00.html

New globe screen puts high-tech spin on theater in the round
NASA and science museums nationwide are putting a new high-tech spin on theater in the round.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-12-05-science-sphere-film_x.htm

Nature, read in tooth and claw
... video, SOS (Sounds of Science), is part of a larger work, Saved by Science, on display ... in 2001, it was to source DNA sequences for one of her hi-tech artworks.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,20910172%255E16947,00.html

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Ibero-Am Science and Tech Forum Begins
With the participation of outstanding authorities and notables from 21 countries, the first forum on Science, Technology, Enterprise and ...
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B5D5606EA-0449-408C-BE3A-107869553375%7D)&language=EN

Isotope Linked to Death Available Online
... to eliminate static electricity. No luck shopping for that hard-to-buy-for science hobbyist in the family? The rare isotope suspected ...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=010000KCLJY4

Hi-tech teaching lesson
... They toured the IBM facility. It was a good science lesson, as they saw the manufacture of hi-tech chips that power video games.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=our_schools&id=4822251

New Horizons: Outbound for Jupiter flyby
... to high-tech instruments onboard the craft, new looks at the gas giant are slated, as are views of several moons circling the planet. But while science at ...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-11-30-new-horizons-jupiter_x.htm

In expansion mode, DU eyes 2 new colleges
... "The Indian National Science Academy in Delhi ... This includes two year B Tech courses after B Sc in sciences, at least in some frontier areas like nanomaterials ...
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=211998

Army adds protesters to $20 billion tech services contract
... (EDS), CACI International Inc. (CAI), IBM Corp. (IBM), General Dynamics Corp. (GD), Science Applications International Corp. (SAI ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/army-adds-protesters-20-billion/story.aspx?guid=%7BF4971FF3-E5AA-40BA-A607-D36C1F0FCF11%7D

Chinese operating system approved
... developed by China's University of Science and Technology for National Defense, was approved by a panel of experts from the state 863 Hi-tech Research and ...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061204-051842-9577r

Segway inventor scoots to bigger matters
... like FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) science tournaments he ... Clean tech is the third-largest area of investment for venture ...
http://news.com.com/Segway+inventor+scoots+to+bigger+matters/2008-11395_3-6140227.html

Grant to help diversify science, tech faculty
... universities in the state -- New Mexico Tech and the University of New Mexico. The universities will also work with the environmental science division of Los ...
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_4767240

New globe screen puts high-tech spin on theater in the round
NASA and science museums nationwide are putting a new high-tech spin on theater in the round.
http://www.examiner.com/a-435639~New_globe_screen_puts_high_tech_spin_on_theater_in_the_round.html

High-Tech High School
Skanska USA Building Inc. of Milford has completed construction of the $22 million Science & Technology Magnet High School in New London.
http://www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=40507

CBS Names Science and Tech Correspondent
News named Daniel Sieberg as science and technology correspondent. Sieberg, who starts Dec.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6395114.html

HI-TECH FIRM TO CREATE 58 JOBS
... Structural Science, presently in Grange, is the latest in a long line of hi-tech firms wanting to move to or set up in the area.
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=439680

High-Tech Convention Showcases New Tools For Officers
... At the Alion Science and Technology booth, which is part of the simulation training show at the Orange County Convention Center, Alion officials showed off a ...
http://www.wesh.com/news/10462090/detail.html

Red Storm Game Designer To Deliver Lecture At Wake Tech
Wake Tech offers a variety of courses to students wanting to enter the gaming industry. The lecture is free and sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=15639

NSF Computer Science and Engineering Chief Takes Post in Private ...
... and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF ... NSF CISE directorate since 2002, having come from Georgia Tech, where he ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108202&org=NSF&from=news

Nintendo Wii wins Best of What's New tech award
Nintendo's new Wii console has just been awarded a grand prize in US science and technology magazine Popular Science's annual Best of What's New award event.
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=6680

Doswell's case hurts unjustly convicted
... But here comes that high-tech science known as DNA testing, and the next thing you know, rapes we've been accused of and murders that placed some of us on ...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/seate/s_481651.html

Full Text: Unabomber's Manifesto
... depends on progress in chemistry, physics, biology, computer science and other fields. Advanced medical treatments require expensive, high-tech equipment that ...
http://cbs5.com/investigates/local_story_332145319.html

Can you tell the difference between high tech performers?
Buy and sell-side analysts at presentations by seven high-growth companies at the Gordon Institute of Business Science Monday were hard pressed to distinguish ...
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/shares/ict_sector/479271.htm

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet by Jim Bell, a new book that has done what many authors could not do, and that is presenting Mars (the Red Planet), like how it is and not with exotic pictures. By using a high-tech camera mounted on top of the Mars rovers, Jim Bell, the scientist who led the photography team for the Mars rovers' missions, has compiled a book with over 150 high quality photos, that puts our neighbor planet colors and textures in a new light.

Self-portrait at Erebus

The tracks and landing craft of Opportunity in the Eagle Crater.


Opportunity snapped a picture of the Rainbow Dunes.

The panoramic cameras mounted on the rovers Spirit and Opportunity take pictures at a resolution of about 1 mega-pixel, or a million pixels per image, this is not much, but when more pictures are combined, the results are amazing. Jim Bell points out that the original mission was only estimated to last for 90 days. Spirit landed on 3 January 2004, and has now spent over 1,000 days rolling across the Martian terrain; Opportunity also reached that mark too.


Spirit is currently analyzing salty deposits in the soil that may indicate the presence of water long ago.


Opportunity recently arrived at the half-mile wide Victoria Crater and is trying to find a safe way in. According to Jim Bell, the rovers continue to surpass everyone's expectations.

Source: USA Today

Labels: book, photo, science, space

With the Internet now ranking at number two for science news, second only to TV, many analysts predict that the days of television's dominance as the information medium of choice throughout the world is slowly grinding to an end. With more and more reliable Web sites popping up on the Internet by the hour, it becomes more likely that users will turn off the TV and turn on the PC to get their information.

The World Wide Web ranks second only to television as the primary destination for Americans seeking information and news about science, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

And for those who have made the jump to high-speed cable Internet connections, the Internet is just as popular as television ... read more

Labels: science, short-news

AAAS and Georgia Tech Announce 2006 Fellows
Atlanta (November 27, 2006) — Four Georgia Tech faculty members have ... and Biochemistry; Nancy Nersessian, professor of cognitive science appointed jointly in ...
http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1198

Army Science Conference 2006
"Transformational Army Science & Technology: Charting the future of science & technology ... It's the first tech conference I've ever been to that started ...
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2006/11/army_science_co.html

Kaloyeros to deliver keynote at Tech Valley education conference
Tech Valley's impact on education will be the subject of a conference Tuesday ... The event will be held at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's ...
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/11/27/daily8.html?jst=b_ln_hl

UA student group opposes doubling $65 tech fee
... The conflict spawned the student coalition, Students Against a Tech Fee Increase. ... for the needs of the institutions," Hertzog, a political science major, said ...
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/33864.php

TCS unveils 'science-to-software' transformation program
... TCS plans to scale up and make offers to 2,000 science graduates during this academic year ... barrier to growth, the program is designed to be a hi-tech, hi-touch ...
http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/68640.html

Brushing up on Neanderthal tooth fossils
... one a baby tooth and one an adult's, using a high-tech computed tomography ... USA TODAY's Dan Vergano combs scholarly journals to present the Science Snapshot, a ...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2006-11-26-neanderthal-teeth_x.htm

Attack Scientific, Engineering Erosion
... that US advantages in the marketplace and specifically in science, engineering and ... low-cost labor available elsewhere," Heneghan told WRAL Local Tech Wire. ...
http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=15628

Wii Wins Popular Science "Grand Award"
US science and technology magazine Popular Science has given the new Wii console a ... went to the Bostitch Hurriquake nail, winner in the home tech grand award ...
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11849

High-Tech Rehabilitation
... aspects of the organization. Jacob attends the University High School of Science and Engineering in Hartford. He also takes classes ... http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctprisoncompute1127.artnov27,0,847668.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Sankar Chatterjee, curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech and Horn professor of geosciences, is known in the science world for his work in several areas of research, including the Shiva Crater in India.

The Shiva Crater, according to the Astrobiology Magazine Web site, measures 600 kilometers by 400 kilometers, and was made by a meteorite that measured 40 kilometers across.

"The publication of his study regarding the crater and its possible implications is expected to receive national attention in the near future", said William Glen, scientist and historian of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The study on the Shiva Crater suggests it is the result of a meteorite impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Before the Shiva Crater was suggested as the reason for the mass extinction, it was believed that another crater, the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, was the cause, Chatterjee said.

However, the Chicxulub Crater is 300,000 years older than when the extinction occurred, Chatterjee said, which led to the search for another explanation of the mass extinction.

"From the very beginning, we knew this is the killer meteorite, the cause of the extinction," he said. "This is just the beginning of the whole study."

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Labels: nature, science, space

The European Space Agency (ESA) has collaborated with Google Earth, to show viewers, what volcanic eruptions, dust storms and ice glaciers and other natural disasters look like, from space.
All 130 satellite images in the collection are provided by ESA's Envisat, which is the largest environmental satellite ever built.

Users will now be able to explore detailed images of landmarks and find out about important changes to the environment. The ESA also provides additional information, bubbles of facts and figures, scientific explanations and theories referring to the images being browsed.

Here is a picture of Katrina from Google Earth:

Labels: google, science, technology

Science, tech hold key to economic balance
... being said a lot these days and it's worth restating: The metro area must increasingly include economic activities based on innovation in science and technology ...
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/1126biz-bizaz-mytakemelnick1126.html

High-tech watch aims to save lives
Steve Sutphen, a faculty service officer in the U of A's computing science department, recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with a team of people to test the ...
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=7863f553-631d-4deb-bbb7-80303cc69185&k=46399

Science and High Tech Park for Be'er Sheva
The city of Be'er Sheva and Ben Gurion University have announced a joint science and technology park at the university campus, with the Ministry ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=116303

DIU holds first science olympiad
... The topics of the competition were fundamentals of Computer Science and Engineer-ing, Communications Engineering and Tech-nology, Mathematics, Electrical and ...
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=11/27/2006&section_id=3&newsid=44959&spcl=no

Engineers encouraged to have fun
... lifestyle technology'' is part of Taiwan's effort to reposition its tech industry. ITRI, said Po-Young Chu, a professor of management science at the National ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16101771.htm

High-tech tug of war
... destination for businesses by creating clusters of high-tech companies in ... funds, $650,000, will be used to create an Information Science Technology Institute ...
http://www.businessrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3165

State losing its innovative edge
... publication. With such demand for well-paying tech jobs, why aren't more students interested in studying math and science?
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/16101746.htm

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Grants to support innovation would tax public credulity
... including within public services, and not just in traditional science and technology ... provide a disproportionate amount of support for the hi-tech sector which ...
http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1750882006

Edible cottonseed as food idea just doesn't seem right
... To read more on how cottonseeds are being proposed as a food source, an article from Sci-Tech Today and another from Science News Online give you their ...
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7458/52/

Midland Academy students win Sweepstakes in math
... Charter School students a sweepstakes award in the South Plains Math and Science Competition. The event was held earlier this month at Texas Tech University in ...
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17511984&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475591&rfi=6

3-D technology puts UNT institute on map
... funding, said Dr. Michael Kaufman, chairman of the materials science department, so ... machine is used in conjunction with two other high-tech microscopes, UNT ...
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-engineering_25met.ART0.West.Edition1.3e431ba.html

Tech center under wraps
... But it's meant to evoke the excitement of science, the architect said. ... "We wanted the building to represent innovation and high tech.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149191863701&path=!business&s=1045855934855

Incentives soon for bio-tech
A Slew of incentives for young scientists will soon be announced to encourage innovation in biotechnology, Union Minister for Science & Technology Kapil Sibal ...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1852960,0004.htm

Science-tech barrier set to fall in DU
... Delhi University is also hoping to start a new M Tech in Nuclear Science course. "This will be to address the energy deficit in the country. ...
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=210861

TCS' new hiring policy for techies
New Delhi: From science to software in seven months - that is TCS' new mission. The tech big boy has found a new hunting ground for software developers and ...
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tcs-new-hiring-policy-for-techies/26996-7.html

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Word up! Explore the lexicon of tech
... And when it comes to minting new words, nothing gets lexicographers scribbling into their notebooks as quickly as science and technology.
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39164309,00.htm

B-Tech Academy Students Get to View College Life On Tour of South
... school to go on any tour at all," said B-Tech principal Victor ... ain't no game," said Ashandra Singleton, who plans to major in Computer Science at Alabama ...
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-24-06&storyID=25698

TCS on a talent pool drive
... to be a hi-tech, hi-touch learning module that aims to transform B.Sc./BCA degree holders into best-in-class IT professionals. Around 500 science graduates are ...
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=265934&leftnm=8&subLeft=0&chkFlg=

DeSimone, Two Other UNC Faculty Members Fellow Honors From Science ...
... lead to the finding of tech ventures Micell Technologies and Liquidia, has been named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=15623

Computer science: what it takes to succeed
... Hall of Fellows--essentially the all-star list for computer science pioneers ... As the tech bubble burst, NeoPhotonic snapped up another technology-centric company ...
http://www.vnunet.com/forbes/news/2169509/takes-succeed

vnunet.com Tech News Radar
Database Administrator Didcot, Oxfordshire £24,638 to £35,543 per annum The Database Services Group of the CCLRC e-Science Centre is currently ...
http://www.whatpc.co.uk/vnunet/news/2169517/vnunet-com-tech-news-radar

Saddam footage shows low-tech weapons planning
... Iraqi dictator beaming as military officers display and demonstrate low-tech arms spread ... said Louay Bahry, an Iraqi scholar who taught political science at the ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/24/news/saddam.php

Cool Science, Hot Careers
... "If you look at the direction of the world economy, it's all high tech. We need as many science and engineering people as possible," said Rick Beal, assistant ...
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business-6/1164276317208220.xml&coll=1

Taiwan, Russia put R&D heads together at high-tech forum
... used its R&D resources to help set up 101 high-tech companies islandwide. ... forum, Tung Lian-shen, deputy director-general of Taiwan's Science Park Administration ...
http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?CtNode=122&xItem=23527

CHS' engineering tech program honored
... In addition to providing a strong foundation in mathematics, science and English, Tech Prep gives students opportunities to develop real-life professional ...
http://www.tcnewsnet.com/main.asp?SectionID=15&SubSectionID=260&ArticleID=142366&TM=24697.92

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Building a philanthrophy brand Retired tech entrepreneur strives
... He might be the most active philanthropist you have never heard of: a retired technology entrepreneur putting his stamp on science research centers at the ...
http://www.eagletribune.com/business/local_story_327094532?keyword=topstory

Government okays regional sci-tech program
The government of Belarus has okayed regional sci-tech program "Promoting new technologies, science-intensive competitive products, measures to improve the ...
http://law.by/work/EnglPortal.nsf/0/723879D18A2D7908C225722F00531AEE?OpenDocument

Han speaks at the 8th Congress of SAST
... ceremony of the 8th Congress of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SAST ... implement scientific developments and set up a Sci-Tech Innovation System. ...
http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/metro/userobject1ai2464646.html

Tech Chronicles
... the technological skills of Eastern Europeans can be traced to the emphasis that the Soviet bloc's one-time Communist rulers put on math and science education. ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/23/BUG5RMIHVM1.DTL

Historical experience could win prizes
Jacob Grohs, a junior in engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech, was awarded a William C. McAllister Leadership Scholarship. ...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-79749sy0nov23,0,5699158.story?coll=dp-features-yorkpoq

SNIST (Hyderabad) selects Informatica as part of curriculum
... based Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST) has selected Informatica PowerCenter data integration software to be part of the B.Tech and M.Tech ...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/informaticacorporationdataintegrationsoftware/snisthyderabadselectsinformaticaaspartcurriculum/market/stocks/article/252453

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

Author and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted, in front of keynote audience at last week's SCO6 SuperComputing Conference that in just 15 years, we'll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever.

He continued that nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, while computers will back up our human memories and rejuvenate our bodies by keeping us young in appearance and health.

Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book The Singularity Is Near, says within a quarter of a century, non-biological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence. He predicts that it will then soar past human ability because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge.

In an interview with InformationWeek, Kurzweil said people and computers will intermix with nanobots, blood cell-sized robots, that will be integrated into everything from our clothing to our bodies and brains ... read the interview

Labels: science

Dolby is still blinding them with science
"We have converted the back of the tour bus to a high-tech computer music lounge. ... The science of technology now has allowed it. ...
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/11/22/entertainment/music/10_59_3411_22_06.txt

Nearly $50 million sought to boost Idaho tech industry
At a meeting yesterday, the Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Council advised lawmakers in the 2007 Legislature to approve a nearly 50 (M) million ...
http://www.localnews8.com/news/regional/4723981.html

Nanotech to lead next IT wave: Welland
... director at SN Bose National Centre for Basic Science: said "While exact investment numbers are not available, the Department of Science & Tech-nology (DST ...
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/514306.cms

Tech expert Xeni Jardin offers a peek into the state of edge
You've covered a lot of fascinating tech/science stories, which one changed forever how you look at/live in this world? Why? Every single one of them. ...
http://www.nypress.com/19/47/news&columns/feature3.cfm

Low-tech crafts for DIYers New publication touts making things by pieces
Like cooking, crafting isn't an exact science. You can modify here and then, adding this and that, to suit your taste. While ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/22/HOGC7MFHAQ1.DTL

Sun Lakes Charity Golf Tournament to sponsor Math Science Day
Annual Math Science Day for eighth grade girls attending middle school in the Pass Area. They will also sponsor scholarships for the Summer Tech-Trek camps. ...
http://www.recordgazette.net/articles/2006/11/22/sports/01sports.txt

Cooper, Remsen attend Young Women in Science conference
The purpose of the conference was to inspire young women to pursue careers in science and technology fields. The number of women in high-tech jobs remains a ...
http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2006/1123/News/023.html

Labels: around-the-world, science, technology

The 2006 grand award winners of the Popular Science "Best of What's New" awards
are:
- AUTO TECH: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 - The Fastest Production Car Ever;


- COMPUTING: One Laptop Per Child XO - Better Screen, Better World;


- GADGETS: Sony Reader PRS-500 - Goodbye Paper;


- HOME ENTERTAINMENT: Nintendo Wii - The Console That Gets You In The Game;


- HEALTH: Custom-Grown Bladders - Creating Human Organs In The Lab;

- AVIATION & SPACE: Surrey Satellite and QinetiQ TopSat - Small Sat With a Big Future;

- ENGINEERING: Water Cube National Swimming Center in Beijing - A Building Made Of Bubbles;


- HOME TECH: Bostitch Hurriquake Nail - The Alpha Nail That Makes Your Home Twice As Tough;

- RECREATION: Celestron SkyScout - Your Tour Guide To Outer Space;


- GENERAL INNOVATION: HP Memory Spot - Stick Digital Data On Anything.

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Science Foundation Arizona revealed plans Wednesday to disburse $35 million in grants and fellowships next year to stimulate high-tech development in Arizona ... read more

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Over the last half century, researchers have found that mineral surfaces may have played critical roles organizing, or activating, molecules that would become essential ingredients to all life, such as amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and nucleic acids (the essence of DNA) ... read more

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Steorn, an Irish technology development company, has today issued a challenge to the global scientific community to test Steorn’s free energy technology and publish the findings.

   
Steorn’s technology is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy. The technology can be applied to virtually all devices requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars.

Steorn has placed an advertisement in The Economist this week to attract the attention of the world’s leading scientists working in the field of experimental physics. From all the scientists who accept Steorn’s challenge, twelve will be invited to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove that Steorn’s technology creates free energy. The results will be published worldwide.

Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, commented:

“During the years of its development, our technology has been validated by various independent scientists and engineers. We are now seeking twelve of the most qualified and most cynical from the world’s scientific community to form an independent jury, test the technology in independent laboratories and publish their findings”.

“We are under no illusions that there will be a lot of cynicism out there about our proposition, as it currently challenges one of the basic principles of physics. However, the implications of our technology go far beyond scientific curiosity: addressing many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production. In order for these benefits to be achieved, we need the public validation and endorsement of the scientific community”.

“We’re playing our part in making that happen by throwing down the gauntlet with today’s announcement – now it’s over to the scientists to ensure that the real potential and benefits of our technology can be realised”.

Following the validation process, Steorn intends to license its technology to organisations within the energy sector. It will allow use of its technology royalty-free for certain purposes including water and rural electrification projects in third world countries, details to be announced later.

 

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About Steorn Ltd.

For many years Steorn has developed technology to help combat counterfeiting and fraud in the plastic card and optical disc industries.

Steorn is a word translating as 'to guide, direct and manage'.

The company has been instrumental in the development of core technologies that address counterfeit crime in areas such as plastic card fraud and optical disc fraud. The company has also provided forensic and expert witness services to British, Irish and international law enforcement agencies.

The Steorn team brings together a wealth of experience from diverse industries including: Energy, Engineering and Information Technology. This unique skill-base has been instrumental in delivering many complex projects and technologies.

Source: http://www.steorn.net

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Skyline Software Systems, a Virginia based company has added videos to its 3D satellite mapping service, in order to challange Google Earth. This turn-key 3D earth online combines massive amounts of high resolution satellite imagery, aerial photography and map data with Skyline’s leading 3D visualization technology to deliver a complete 3D web mapping solution.

In addition, Skyline Globe runs inside a regular web-browser, and brings both commercial and government applications to life in industries such as Travel and Tourism, Real Estate, Social Networks, Urban Planning, Entertainment etc.

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A team of researchers are heading to the high Arctic in a Canadian-led expedition that will look for minerals that could provide clues about extraterrestrial life. After geologist Benoit Beauchamp’s previous journey to the arctic turned up a massive sulphur-coated glacier spring on Ellesmere Island, scientists are curious to know more about the natural oddity.

Beauchamp discovered the spring in the mid-1990s when he noticed a yellow stain on the snow while flying above the Borup Fiord Pass in a helicopter. He returned to the area and noticed the strong smell of rotten eggs that indicated the presence of sulphur. Beauchamp’s colleague, Dr. Steve Grasby, came back in 1999 and 2001 to collect samples of water and mineral deposits.

Early testing showed the glacier spring contains new forms of bacteria and an extremely rare mineral known as vaterite. The bacteria have survived in one of the coldest and harshest environments on Earth and scientists say nothing like it has ever been found before.

The Arctic Institute of North America is a non-profit research institute of the University of Calgary. Their team is eager to begin exploring the arctic sulphur deposit because signs of life in Canada’s arctic suggest it’s also possible life could exist on Jupiter’s second moon Europa. Scientists say the glacial spring in the arctic will provide critical information for understanding and uncovering what lies beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s second moon, Europa.

NASA is currently planning on sending a robot probe to Europa to drill through ice for signs of life. But scientists will have to do so without contaminating ice, as Europa is widely regarded as one of the leading candidates to determine if we are alone in the universe.

"We really want to try and understand the plumbing system for this spring and where all this sulphur is coming from," Beauchamp says. "This is a very unusual feature on the earth's surface and it's an extreme ecosystem that could be a good model for how life first begins in a harsh environment."

The Canadian Space Agency and NASA are funding the two-week expedition to the Arctic beginning June 21.

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Steven Spielberg is set to defy gravity in a new film he'll direct for Paramount Pictures. The Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest venture is an untitled sci-fi film that delves into Caltech physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields. Based on real science, the film would explore the mind-bending territory of black holes and gravity waves and touch on some of the hypotheses that Albert Einstein chased but never could prove. Thorne, a longtime friend of Obst's, is one of the world's leading experts on relativity. It is unclear how Thorne's scientific theories will evolve into a film-ready narrative, but the concept has been described as in the vein of "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Source: Reuters

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The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, physicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

Humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40, the British scientist said. "We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking, greeted here Monday with a rock star's welcome. Tickets for his lecture Thursday are sold out. Hawking said that if humans can avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years, they should have space settlements that can continue without support from Earth.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

The 64-year-old scientist, author of the global best-seller A Brief History of Time, uses a wheelchair and communicates with the help of a computer because he suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. One of the best-known theoretical physicists of his generation, Hawking has done groundbreaking research on black holes and the origins of the universe, proposing that space and time have no beginning and no end.



However, Alan Guth, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said Hawking's latest observations are something of a departure from his usual research and more applicable to survival over the long-term.

"It is a new area for him to look at," Guth said. "If he's talking about the next 100 years and beyond, it does make sense to think about space as the ultimate lifeboat."

But, he added, "I don't see the likely possibility within the next 50 years of science technology making it easier to survive on Mars and on the moon than it would be to survive on Earth. I would still think that an underground base, for example in Antarctica, would be easier to build than building on the moon."

Joshua Winn, an astrophysicist at MIT, agreed. "The prospect of colonizing other planets is very far off, you must realize," he said. Hawking's "work has been highly theoretical physics, not in astrophysics or global politics or anything like that," Winn added. "He is certainly stepping outside his research domain."

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Enceladus is a bizarre and small world of white, circumnavigating peculiarly in Saturn's outermost ring. It measures at only 504 kilometres (315 miles) across, therefore defying its name as a giant of Greek mythology, and it has a luminous shell of ice that is immaculate with the exception of some odd-looking grooves and pockmarks from the latest space impacts.

While its exterior is a freezing nightmare, counter-intuitively, underneath the ice Enceladus appears to be quite pleasant. Fly bys via the US probe Cassini have displayed plumes of water vapor that escape from its surface, discharge crystal jets upwards for hundreds of kilometers (miles). One theory is that these "cryo-volcanoes" are sourced by a phenomenon called tidal heating.

Gravitational draw from giant Saturn and the nearby satellites of Dione and Janus clutches and extends the moon's geological interior, instigating resistance that heats the sub-surface water. However, astonishingly, Enceladus' hotspot can only be found in a polar region - at its south pole.

A couple of American space scientists feel that they have the answer for this. Spiraling bodies are mainly stable when most of their mass is close to the equator. Any reorganization of mass that is within a spinning object causes the axis of spin to be changed to unstable.

In the case of Enceladus's, the big splotch of low-density material while either warm water or hot silicate at its rocky core would cause the moon to turn over. The spin axis would linger fixed, yet the splotch, which is known as a diapir, would wind up on the South Pole. This would explain both the geysers but so-called tiger stripes, or fault lines, in the ice that originate from the southern polar region and measure around 130 kilometers (80 miles) long. Enceladus may not be the only thing in being reoriented this way. A similar process could have happened on other small moons, such as the Uranian satellite Miranda, according to their theory.

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New materials that can change the way light and other forms of radiation bend around an object may provide a way to make objects invisible, researchers say.

Two separate teams of researchers have come up with theories on ways to use experimental "metamaterials" to cloak an object and hide it from visible light, infrared light, microwaves and perhaps even sonar probes. Their work suggests that science-fiction portrayals of invisibility, such as the cloaking devices used to hide space ships in Star Trek, might be truly possible. Harry Potter's cloak or the Invisible Man of films and fiction might be a bit harder to emulate, however, because the materials must be used in a thick shell.



The concept begins with refraction--a quality of light in which the electromagnetic waves take the quickest, but not necessarily the shortest, route. This accounts for the illusion that a pencil immersed in a glass of water appears broken, for instance. "Imagine a situation where a medium guides light around a hole in it," Physicist Ulf Leonhardt of Britain's University of St. Andrews, wrote in one of the reports, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

The light rays end up behind the object as if they had traveled in a straight line.

"Any object placed in the hole would be hidden from sight. The medium would create the ultimate optical illusion: invisibility, Leonhardt wrote. "Such devices may be possible. The method developed here can be also applied to escape detection by other electromagnetic waves or sound." The theory is different from that used on modern "stealth" bombers, for example, which bounce radar off their surfaces so they cannot be seen. Instead, an object would be encased in a shell of metamaterials and they would create an illusion akin to a mirage, said David Schurig of Duke University in North Carolina, who worked on the second report. Metamaterials are composite structures that deliberately resemble nothing found in nature. They are engineered to have unusual properties, such as the ability to bend light in unique ways.

Like all physics, the invisibility idea requires a little imagination. "Think of space as a woven cloth," Schurig said in a interview Thursday. "Imagine making a hole in the cloth by inserting a pointed object between the threads without tearing them." The light, or microwaves, or radar would travel along the threads of the cloth, ending up behind the object without having touched it. "You just need the right set of material properties and you can guide light," Schurig said.

The Duke lab started working on metamaterials with a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is part of the U.S. Defense Department. Such materials could provide super-light electronics in aircraft or cars, or highly efficient lenses. Working with John Pendry of Imperial College London, Schurig and David Smith at Duke came up with the idea of using these materials to bend light and other electromagnetic radiation.

"We are going to try to have an experimental demonstration of these effects. There are a few more steps to go. We are working on these steps," Smith said in a telephone interview. Anyone making such a cloak would have to choose what form of radiation one wanted invisibility from, Schurig said. The invisibility would work both ways--a person hidden from the visible light spectrum would have to use infrared or sonar or microwaves to see out, he said.

"If want to cover the whole visible spectrum, that would a tall order," Schurig said.

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Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

Charles R. Keeton of Rutgers and Arlie O. Petters of Duke base their work on a recent theory called the type II Randall-Sundrum braneworld gravity model. The theory holds that the visible universe is a membrane (hence "braneworld") embedded within a larger universe, much like a strand of filmy seaweed floating in the ocean. The "braneworld universe" has five dimensions -- four spatial dimensions plus time -- compared with the four dimensions -- three spatial, plus time -- laid out in the General Theory of Relativity.

The framework Keeton and Petters developed predicts certain cosmological effects that, if observed, should help scientists validate the braneworld theory. The observations, they said, should be possible with satellites scheduled to launch in the next few years.

If the braneworld theory proves to be true, "this would upset the applecart," Petters said. "It would confirm that there is a fourth dimension to space, which would create a philosophical shift in our understanding of the natural world."

The scientists' findings appeared May 24, 2006, in the online edition of the journal Physical Review D. Keeton is an astronomy and physics professor at Rutgers, and Petters is a mathematics and physics professor at Duke. Their research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Randall-Sundrum braneworld model -- named for its originators, physicists Lisa Randall of Harvard University and Raman Sundrum of Johns Hopkins University -- provides a mathematical description of how gravity shapes the universe that differs from the description offered by the General Theory of Relativity.

Keeton and Petters focused on one particular gravitational consequence of the braneworld theory that distinguishes it from Einstein's theory.

The braneworld theory predicts that relatively small "black holes" created in the early universe have survived to the present. The black holes, with mass similar to a tiny asteroid, would be part of the "dark matter" in the universe. As the name suggests, dark matter does not emit or reflect light, but does exert a gravitational force.

The General Theory of Relativity, on the other hand, predicts that such primordial black holes no longer exist, as they would have evaporated by now.

"When we estimated how far braneworld black holes might be from Earth, we were surprised to find that the nearest ones would lie well inside Pluto's orbit," Keeton said.

Petters added, "If braneworld black holes form even 1 percent of the dark matter in our part of the galaxy -- a cautious assumption -- there should be several thousand braneworld black holes in our solar system."

But do braneworld black holes really exist -- and therefore stand as evidence for the 5-D braneworld theory?

The scientists showed that it should be possible to answer this question by observing the effects that braneworld black holes would exert on electromagnetic radiation traveling to Earth from other galaxies. Any such radiation passing near a black hole will be acted upon by the object's tremendous gravitational forces -- an effect called "gravitational lensing."

"A good place to look for gravitational lensing by braneworld black holes is in bursts of gamma rays coming to Earth," Keeton said. These gamma-ray bursts are thought to be produced by enormous explosions throughout the universe. Such bursts from outer space were discovered inadvertently by the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s.

Keeton and Petters calculated that braneworld black holes would impede the gamma rays in the same way a rock in a pond obstructs passing ripples. The rock produces an "interference pattern" in its wake in which some ripple peaks are higher, some troughs are deeper, and some peaks and troughs cancel each other out. The interference pattern bears the signature of the characteristics of both the rock and the water.

Similarly, a braneworld black hole would produce an interference pattern in a passing burst of gamma rays as they travel to Earth, said Keeton and Petters. The scientists predicted the resulting bright and dark "fringes" in the interference pattern, which they said provides a means of inferring characteristics of braneworld black holes and, in turn, of space and time.

"We discovered that the signature of a fourth dimension of space appears in the interference patterns," Petters said. "This extra spatial dimension creates a contraction between the fringes compared to what you'd get in General Relativity."

Petters and Keeton said it should be possible to measure the predicted gamma-ray fringe patterns using the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, which is scheduled to be launched on a spacecraft in August 2007. The telescope is a joint effort between NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and institutions in France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Sweden.

The scientists said their prediction would apply to all braneworld black holes, whether in our solar system or beyond.

"If the braneworld theory is correct," they said, "there should be many, many more braneworld black holes throughout the universe, each carrying the signature of a fourth dimension of space."

Source: Duke University

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