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NBC, NFL to stream Super Bowl live online and to Verizon phones

January 20, 2012

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The Super Bowl, Pro Bowl and NBC’s wild-card playoff games will be streamed online and on Verizon mobile smartphones for the first time, the NFL announced, says NBC Sports.

The games will be streamed online at NBCSports.com and NFL.com through SNF Extra, with HD broadcast, DVR-style controls, additional camera angles, in-game highlights, live statistics, interactive elements, and social interactivity.

NFL Mobile from Verizon will stream the… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Internet/Telecom

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‘Wireless’ humans could form backbone of new mobile networks

October 29, 2010

Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile Internet networks by carrying wearable sensors, according to researchers from Queen’s University Belfast.

The novel sensors could create new ultra-high-bandwidth mobile Internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations. The engineers from Queen’s  Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), are working on a new project based on the rapidly developing science of… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education

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‘Superlattice’ unleashes oxygen to improve fuel-cell efficiency

May 2, 2013

The MIT team used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to study the electrical activity of a superlattice material composed of two different compounds of the elements strontium, lanthanum and cobalt. At bottom, a diagram of how they "sliced" the material on an angle to expose wider bands of the thin layers of material. The center two images show the resulting measurements of the surface topography of the material, and the activity of electrons moving through it. At top, a diagram of the molecular structures of the two compounds. (Credit: Chen et al./MIT)

‘Superlattice’ structure could give a huge boost to oxygen reaction in fuel cells, increasing their power potential.

New research at MIT could dramatically improve the efficiency of fuel cells, which are considered a promising alternative to batteries for powering everything from electronic devices to cars and homes.

Fuel cells make electricity by combining hydrogen, or hydrocarbon fuels, with oxygen. But the most efficient types, called solid… read more

Topics: Energy | Nanotech/Materials Science

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‘Smart fingertips’ could allow for virtual surgery

August 12, 2012

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Semiconductor devices capable of responding with high precision to touch and finger movement are a step towards creating surgical gloves for use in medical procedures such as local ablations and ultrasound scans.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University and Dalian University of Technology used ultrathin, stretchable, silicon-based electronics and soft sensors mounted onto an artificial “skin” and fitted to fingertips.

The team hopes to incorporate… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Human Enhancement | Nanotech/Materials Science

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‘Rain Man’-like brains mapped with network analysis

March 1, 2013

The connectome of brain malformation

Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have mapped the three-dimensional global connections within the brains of seven adults who have genetic malformations that leave them without the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right sides of the brain.

These “structural connectome” maps, which combine hospital MRIs with the mathematical tool known as network analysis, reveal new details about the condition known as… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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‘Nanobubbles’ deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to cancer cells

April 10, 2012

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In tests on drug-resistant cancer cells, researchers have found that delivering chemotherapy drugs and and genetic payloads with “plasmonic nanobubbles” injected directly into cancer cells was up to 30 times more deadly to cancer cells than traditional drug treatment and required less than one-tenth the clinical dose.

“We are delivering cancer drugs or other genetic cargo at the single-cell level,” said Rice’s Dmitri Lapotko, a… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Zyvex announces nanomanipulator

April 17, 2003

Zyvex Corporation has announced the sales release of the S100 Nanomanipulator System, a positioning and testing tool for nanotechnology R&D applications.

The S100 accommodates up to four quadrants of three-dimensional stages, which grasp, move, test, and optimally position molecular-level samples for scanning electron microscopes (SEMs).

The system is an integral part of Zyvex’s plan to provide flexible, automated manufacturing at ever-decreasing sizes.

Topics: Nanotech/Materials Science

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Zooming way in, technique offers close-ups of electrons, nuclei

October 2, 2008

A new diamond-based magnetic sensor uses a special “flaw” in diamonds that can be manipulated into sensitively monitoring magnetic signals from individual electrons and atomic nuclei placed nearby.

The system allows for nanoscale spatial resolution with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. It makes it possible to peer inside proteins, map the structure of impossibly intricate molecules, closely observe the dynamics of microscopic biochemical processes,… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Zooming in on Mars in glorious 3D

March 30, 2009
View this Mars image with 3D glasses (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Hundreds of new red-cyan anaglyph (3D stereo) images of Mars were recently released by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the most powerful camera to ever orbit another planet, with one-meter resolution.

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Zooming in on bacterial weapons in 3D

May 23, 2012

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Imaging of the structure of bacteria’s injection needles at atomic resolution has been achieved by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in cooperation with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and the University of Washington.

Their findings might contribute to drug tailoring and the development of strategies which specifically prevent the infection process.

Hundreds of tiny hollow needles sticking out of the bacterial… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Zombie PCs being sent to steal IDs

March 16, 2005

Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware.

The large networks of compromised computers are now a tool for groups of criminals bent on making money through identity fraud or adware installation. A person whose computer is infected with bot software runs the risk of having sensitive information such as account… read more

Topics: Survival/Defense

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Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky?

October 28, 2003

Cosmologists debated the controversial anthropic principle* at a recent conference, “The Future of Cosmology,” at Case Western Reserve University.

* An attempt to explain why the fundamental constants of physics and chemistry are fine-tuned to allow the universe and life at we know it to exist.

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‘Zero intelligence’ trading closely mimics stock market

February 3, 2005

A model that assumes stock market traders have zero intelligence has been found to mimic the behavior of the London Stock Exchange very closely, say researchers at the Santa Fe Institute.

The researchers say the finding could be used to identify ways to lower volatility in the stock markets and reduce transaction costs.

Topics: AI/Robotics

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Zeno Could Be Next Robot Boy Wonder

September 6, 2007

Hanson Robotics’ latest creation is a 17-inch, 4.5-pound personal robot boy that can walk, talk, express emotions, and make eye contact.

The prototype, which will have a formal unveiling at Wired Nextfest in California next week, is described as an intelligent “conversational robot” and will ultimately be part of Hanson’s “Robokind” line of personal, interactive bots.

“We’re combining the best artificial intelligence with this theater for fiction so… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics

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Zen training speeds the mind’s return after distraction, brain scans reveal

September 4, 2008

Experienced Zen meditators can clear their minds of distractions (being interrupted by a word-recognition task) more quickly than novices, according to a new brain imaging study by Emory University School of Medicine researchers.

“This suggests that the regular practice of meditation may enhance the capacity to limit the influence of distracting thoughts. This skill could be important in conditions such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social Networking/Web/Education

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