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Flawed nanotubes could be perfect silicon replacement
(Dec 16, 2008)
The paradox of perfection – that flaws make things perfect –
could be the key to designing nanoelectronic circuits from carbon
nanotubes, according to US scientists. They have discovered that a
circuit of nanotubes can only guide a current if some of the tubes
carry structural defects.
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more. Source: New Scientist |
Swapping your body becomes a virtual reality
(Dec 3, 2008)
Ever wanted Arnie's abs or the legs of Julia Roberts? Maybe you'll
get the chance to make believe they are your own in future, now that
the illusion of "body-swapping" has been successfully created in the
lab. Spooky as it sounds, neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, Sweden, were able to used simple camera trickery to
fool volunteers into perceiving the bodies of both mannequins and
other people as their own.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Nanotech clothing fabric 'never gets wet'
(Nov 24, 2008)
If you were to soak even your best raincoat underwater for two months
it would be wet though at the end of the experience. But a new waterproof
material developed by Swiss chemists would be as dry as the day it
went in.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
IBM to build brain-like computers
(Nov 21, 2008)
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration
to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called
"cognitive computing", the research will bring together neurobiologists,
computer and materials scientists and psychologists. As a first step
in its research the project has been granted $4.9m (£3.27m) from US
defence agency Darpa.
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more. Source: BBC |
Voice recognition software reads your brain
waves
(Nov 13, 2008)
Mind-reading software developed in the Netherlands can decipher the
sounds being spoken to a person, and even who is saying them, from
scans of the listener's brain. To train the software, neuroscientists
used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain
activity of 7 people while they listened to three different speakers
saying simple vowel sounds.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
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