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Friday February 22, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines New injectable hydrogel encourages regeneration and improves functionality after a heart attack Russia asteroid impact: ESA update and assessment Carver Mead: ‘A bunch of big egos’ are strangling science New retinal implant gives sight to nine blind people 3D-printed ears that look and act like the real thing A flexible, transparent gesture sensor Latest News New injectable hydrogel encourages regeneration and improves functionality after a heart attack February 22, 2013   University of California, San Diego bioengineers have demonstrated in a study in pigs that a new injectable hydrogel can repair damage from heart attacks, help the heart grow new tissue and blood vessels, and get the heart moving closer to how a healthy heart should. The gel is injected through a catheter without requiring surgery … more… Russia asteroid impact: ESA update and assessment February 22, 2013   The first firm details of the 15 February asteroid impact in Russia, the largest in more than a century, are becoming clear. ESA is carefully assessing the information as crucial input for developing the Agency’s asteroid-hunting effort. At 03:20 GMT on 15 February, a natural object entered the atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over … more… Carver Mead: ‘A bunch of big egos’ are strangling science February 22, 2013   ISSCC Microelectronics pioneer, Caltech professor emeritus, and all-around smart guy Carver Mead believes that the scientific revolution that began with the discovery of special relativity and quantum mechanics has stalled, and that it’s up to us to kickstart it, The Register reports. “A bunch of big egos got in the way,” he told his audience … more… New retinal implant gives sight to nine blind people February 22, 2013   German and Hungarian researchers have brought sight to nine blind patients with hereditary retinal degeneration, using a subretinally implanted microelectronic chip with 1500 pixels. The chip size is approximately 3mm x 3 mm and is surgically implanted below the fovea (area of sharpest vision in the retina). It provides a diamond-shaped visual field of 15 … more… 3D-printed ears that look and act like the real thing February 22, 2013   Cornell bioengineers and Weill Cornell Medical College physicians have created an artificial ear that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope to thousands of children born with a congenital deformity called microtia. They used 3-D printing and injectable gels made of living cells to fashion ears that are practically identical to a … more… A flexible, transparent gesture sensor February 22, 2013   A new method of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet has been developed by a team of researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria. The new imager, which resembles a flexible plastic film, uses fluorescent particles to capture incoming light and channel a portion of it to … more… New EVENTS   Advancing Humanity Symposium Dates: Mar 23, 2013 Location: Stanford, California more...   2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing Dates: Jul 22 – 25, 2013 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada more... New VIDEOS   Google Chromebook Pixel   Miguel Nicolelis: a monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts 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|*.