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Tuesday January 15, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Synthetic oscillating gel ‘acts alive’ Marine robots detect endangered whales Internet activist, a creator of RSS, is dead at 26, apparently a suicide Flexible nanocircuits that can go on almost anything Controlling heat like light Pill-sized device provides rapid, detailed imaging of esophageal lining Latest News Synthetic oscillating gel ‘acts alive’ January 15, 2013 Synthetic self-moving gels can “act alive” and mimic primitive biological communication, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found. The synthetic system can reconfigure itself through a combination of chemical communication and interaction with light. “This is the closest system to the ultimate self- recombining material, which can be divided into separated parts and the parts move … more… Marine robots detect endangered whales January 15, 2013 Two robots equipped with instruments designed to “listen” for the calls of baleen whales detected nine endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine last month. The team of researchers, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists Mark Baumgartner and Dave Fratantoni, reported their sightings to NOAA, the federal agency responsible for … more… Internet activist, a creator of RSS, is dead at 26, apparently a suicide January 15, 2013   Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment, The New York Times reports. At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the … more… Flexible nanocircuits that can go on almost anything January 15, 2013   Research scientists Stephen Bedell and Davood Shahrjerdi at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York think that flexible nanoscale circuits can do just that, IBM Research reports. The flexible nanoelectronic circuit Bedell and Shahrjedri designed is 10,000 times thinner than a piece of paper, and was peeled off of a silicon … more… Controlling heat like light January 15, 2013 An MIT researcher has developed a technique that provides a new way of manipulating heat, allowing it to be controlled much as light waves can be manipulated by lenses and mirrors. The approach relies on engineered materials consisting of nanostructured semiconductor alloy crystals. Heat is a vibration of matter — technically, a vibration of the … more… Pill-sized device provides rapid, detailed imaging of esophageal lining January 15, 2013 Physicians may soon have a new way to screen patients for Barrett’s esophagus, a precancerous condition usually caused by chronic exposure to stomach acid. Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed an imaging system enclosed in a capsule about the size of a multivitamin pill that creates detailed, … more… New VIDEOS   Daniel Wolpert: the real reason for brains 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|*.