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Wednesday October 10, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 — Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian K. Kobilka SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at Space Station with precious cargo A wireless low-power, high-quality EEG headset Zapping cancer cells with magnets Brain connectivity predicts reading skills DNA’s half-life identified using fossil bones Phil Zimmermann’s Silent Circle builds a secure, seductive fortress around your smartphone How cancer cells break free from tumors and spread Kinect-based system detects touch and gestures on any surface How to draw a chemical sensor with carbon-nanotube ‘pencil lead’ Latest News The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 — Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian K. Kobilka October 10, 2012   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, and Brian K. Kobilka, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA, for studies of G-protein–coupled receptors. Smart receptors on cell surfaces … more… SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at Space Station with precious cargo October 10, 2012   A privately built robotic space capsule arrived at the International Space Station early Wednesday (Oct. 10) to make the first-ever commercial cargo delivery to the orbiting lab under a billion-dollar deal with NASA, Space.com reports. The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by station astronauts using a robotic arm after an apparently flawless approach by the cargo-laden space … more… A wireless low-power, high-quality EEG headset October 10, 2012   Imec, Holst Centre and Panasonic have developed a new prototype of a wireless EEG (electroencephalogram, or brain waves) headset designed to be a reliable, high-quality and wearable EEG monitoring system. The system combines ease-of-use with ultra-low power electronics. Continuous impedance monitoring and the use of active electrodes increases the quality of EEG signal recording compared to … more… Zapping cancer cells with magnets October 10, 2012   Magnetic nanoparticles can be used to kill cancer cells by controlling cell signaling pathways, researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea have demonstrated. They developed magnetic nanoparticles that turn on apoptosis cell signaling (commands to kill cells) in cancer cells by using a remote, non-invasive magnetic field. The magnetic switch uses zinc-doped iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (Zn0.4Fe2.6O4), … more… Brain connectivity predicts reading skills October 10, 2012   The growth pattern of long-range connections in the brain predicts how a child’s reading skills will develop, according to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature News reports. Literacy requires the integration of activity in brain areas involved in vision, hearing and language. These areas are distributed throughout the brain, so … more… DNA’s half-life identified using fossil bones October 10, 2012   A study of bones from extinct birds suggests the double helix too has a measurable half-life — and that we have underestimated its ability to survive in the fossil record, New Scientist reports. Part of the reason a DNA half-life has been so elusive is that it is hard to find a large enough cache … more… Phil Zimmermann’s Silent Circle builds a secure, seductive fortress around your smartphone October 10, 2012   The cryptography legend Phil Zimmermann is teaming up with two ex-Navy SEALs to offer encrypted phone calls, video conferencing, and text messages with no learning curve whatsoever. The target market? Businesspeople and government employees traveling abroad, Fast Company reports. Silent Circle, which launches on October 15, is a secure communications product for Android and iOS … more… How cancer cells break free from tumors and spread October 10, 2012   A new study from MIT cancer researchers reveals some of the cellular adhesion molecules that are critical to this how cancer cells break free from tumors, spread, and reattach to a new site. Although tumor metastasis (spreading) causes about 90 percent of cancer deaths, the exact mechanism that allows cancer cells to spread from one … more… Kinect-based system detects touch and gestures on any surface October 10, 2012   People can let their fingers — and hands — do the talking with a new touch-activated system that projects onto walls and other surfaces and allows users to interact with their environment and each other. The system uses a Microsoft Kinect camera, which identifies the fingers of a person’s hand while touching any plain surface. … more… How to draw a chemical sensor with carbon-nanotube ‘pencil lead’ October 10, 2012   New low-cost, durable carbon nanotube sensors can be etched with mechanical pencils. The methods typically used to fabricate carbon nanotube sensors are hazardous and not suited for large-scale production. But a new  method created by MIT chemists — as simple to use as drawing a line on a sheet of paper — may overcome that obstacle. … more… New EVENTS   Humanity+ @San Francisco Dates: Dec 1 – 2, 2012 Location: San Francisco, California more... New VIDEOS   Digits hand tracker: freehand 3D computer interaction without gloves New books America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats) author David Gelernter   America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture, our leaders—and each … more… Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality author Plamen L. Simeonov, Leslie S. Smith, Andrée C. Ehresmann   Perhaps the most distinct question in science throughout the ages has been the one of perceivable reality, treated both in physics and philosophy. Reality is acting upon us, and we, and life in general, are acting upon reality. Potentiality, found both in quantum reality and in the activity of life, plays a key role.  In quantum … more… Cloud Atlas: A Novel author David Mitchell   Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical … more… Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.