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Honey,
I shrunk the robotic inchworm
Researchers
from Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology have made tiny mobile robots that are steerable...
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Nano
wireless
Fireflies, heart cells and pendulum clocks synchronize
with others of their kind. The same turns out to be true
for nanoscale electromagnets, which can be used to transmit
and receive microwaves...
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RNA
nanotech takes on cancer
One of the great hopes for biomedical nanotechnology
is that it could lead to cancer treatments that are more
effective and less harmful than today's chemical and radiation
therapies...
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Physics
finds file-folder formula
Natural networks like predator-prey relationships,
social networks like jazz musician collaborations, and
artificial networks like the Internet all have a scale-free
structure...
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Bits
and pieces
Crystal nanomotors, shape-shifting film,
and built-in supercapacitors. |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground:
Georgia Tech's Ronald Arkin
The economics of labor, making robots as
reliable as cars, getting robots to trust people, biorobotics,
finding the boundaries of intimate relationships with
robots, how much to let robots manipulate people, giving
robots a conscience, robots as humane soldiers and The
Butlerian Jihad.
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How
It Works: Two schools of cryptography
There are two approaches to securing information:
extremely difficult mathematical problems and the randomness
of nature. Both count on the limits of technology. |
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SMALLEY'S
RESEARCH WATCH |
| September
19, 2005 |
Room
temp ice
Experiments have proved that it is possible
to freeze water at room temperature using
energy to trigger hydrogen to bond in the
way needed for crystallization. What's more,
the phenomenon uses considerably less energy
than had been predicted. The catch is that
this type of freezing only happens in nanoscale
spaces...
September
9, 2005
Brown
blocks white
September
2, 2005
Cultural
vision
August 31, 2005
Blink
blindness |
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"Funding
of course enables discoveries, but does not guarantee
they will occur. Lack of funding can almost certainly
guarantee that discoveries will not be made."
- Ronald Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Thanks
to Kevin from
GoldBamboo.com
for technical support |
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