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Protein
logic digitizes cells
Brain
researchers often use the analogy of brain as computer
to frame their work. As it turns out, the analogy is also
handy for examining the complex biochemical interactions
inside individual cells...
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Spray-on
solar cell manufacturing
Researchers from Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands have developed a low-cost spray-on
manufacturing technique for making solar cells...
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Biochip
spots cancer signs
The practice of chemically "functionalizing" carbon
nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires by attaching DNA
or other biomolecules to them has led to prototype biochips
that can detect bacteria, viruses, specific types of DNA,
or particular proteins molecules...
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Plasma
pen to fight plaque
In the not too distant future, your dental hygienist
might stick what looks like a small blowtorch into your
mouth. It shouldn't hurt, though, because the device will
be emitting cold plasma rather than hot flame...
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Bits
and pieces
High-speed organic memory, current altering
salt, and measuring how surfaces change atoms. |
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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