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Wednesday January 16, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Google glass to hit developers’ hands this month Using an electron beam to manipulate nanoparticles Intelligent molecules Asteroid deflection mission seeks smashing ideas Building electronics bottom-up To make open access work, we need to do more than liberate journal articles The best tribute to Aaron Swartz Latest News Google glass to hit developers’ hands this month January 16, 2013   Developers who want to get their hands on Google’s Project Glass won’t have to wait much longer, Mashable reports. Google announced plans Tuesday to hold a “Glass Foundry” in San Francisco and New York in the coming weeks: Two full days of hacking that will allow developers to get an early look at Glass and … more… Using an electron beam to manipulate nanoparticles January 16, 2013   Scientists from Berkeley Lab and the National University of Singapore have developed a way to manipulate nanoparticles using an electron beam. They used an electron beam from a transmission electron microscope to trap gold nanoparticles and direct their movement, and to assemble several nanoparticles into a tight cluster. They also imaged the nanoparticles as they … more… Intelligent molecules January 16, 2013   It sounds like science fiction: “intelligent molecules” that react to external stimuli and reversibly change their shape. But now Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) physicists have succeeded for the first time in creating a chemical reaction, using a single polymer molecule, that makes this process visible. Dr. Michael Nash and his colleagues placed a self-generated synthesized polymer on a … more… Asteroid deflection mission seeks smashing ideas January 16, 2013   A space rock several hundred meters across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster — an untested mission to deflect it — fails. This fictional scene of films and novels could well be a reality one day. So the European Space Agency (ESA) is appealing for research ideas to … more… Building electronics bottom-up January 16, 2013   University of South Carolina’s Chuanbing Tang is out to turn the microelectronics industry upside down. Currently, modern electronics are primarily fabricated by etching the smooth surface of a starting material — say, a wafer of silicon, using micro- or nanolithography to establish a pattern on it. This top-down method might involve a prefabricated template, such as … more… To make open access work, we need to do more than liberate journal articles January 16, 2013   In the days since the tragedy of Aaron Swartz’s suicide, many academics have been posting open-access PDFs of their research as an act of solidarity with Swartz’s crusade to liberate (in most cases publicly funded) knowledge for all to read. While this has been a noteworthy gesture, the problem of open access isn’t just about … more… New BLOG POSTS The best tribute to Aaron Swartz January 15, 2013 by Giulio Prisco   If you are a scientist, you can pay the best and most effective tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz by sharing PDFs of your published work on pdftribute.net via the hashtag #pdftribute on Twitter. Researchers are now offering open-access versions of their work using this hashtag. I also suggest to boycott the pay-walled journals of the … more… New books Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior author Leonard Mlodinow Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and … 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|*.