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Thursday December 20, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Mayo Clinic study unmasks regulator of healthy life span Liquid metal creates wires that stretch 8 times their original length A new ‘network-extracted ontology’ model of the cell First map of how the brain organizes everything we see Latest News Mayo Clinic study unmasks regulator of healthy life span December 20, 2012 A new series of studies in mouse models by Mayo Clinic researchers uncovered that the aging process is characterized by high rates of whole-chromosome losses and gains in various organs, including heart, muscle, kidney and eye, and demonstrate that reducing these rates slows age-related tissue deterioration and promotes a healthier life span. “We’ve known for some time … more… Liquid metal creates wires that stretch 8 times their original length December 20, 2012 Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning. The wires can be used for everything from headphones to phone chargers, and have potential uses in electronic textiles. To make the wires, researchers start with a thin tube made of … more… A new ‘network-extracted ontology’ model of the cell December 20, 2012   Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have proposed a new “network-extracted ontology” (NeXO) method that creates a computational model of the cell from large networks of gene and protein interactions, discovering how genes and proteins connect to form higher-level cellular machinery. “Our method creates [an] ontology, or a … more… First map of how the brain organizes everything we see December 20, 2012   How do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that the brain is wired to organize all the categories of objects and actions that we see, and they have created the first interactive map of how the brain organizes … more… New VIDEOS   Departing Space Station commander provides tour of orbital laboratory New books Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky author Gina Hagler   Since the dawn of civilization, man has gazed across the oceans and up to the stars with dreams of conquering both. What may surprise readers is that the principles behind how ships were designed in yesteryear are not so far from how today’s air and space craft are created. In a new book by Gina … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Futurist Ray Kurzweil joins Google: DNews nugget   Source: Discovery News — Decemeber 17, 2012 | DNews editors Ray Kurzweil is more than an inventor. Sure, he gave us the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. … more… Read full article here 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|*.