The First Synthetic Life Form

The First Synthetic Life Form
Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form // function getOmnitureData_86922730001() { var omniture = new Object(); omniture.prop43="Video"; omniture.prop44="Video:...
May 21st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The Future of Brain Imaging

The Future of Brain Imaging
Silicon Shrinkwrap Melts Smoothly Onto Cat Brain to Monitor Activity in Real Time The wetted silk can apply a thin silicon layer directly to the brain’s contours, shrink-wrap style, and monitor brain activity By Jeremy Hsu Silk-Silicon Let me get inside your head John Rogers Implanting...
May 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Geek Power

Geek Power
“It’s funny in a way”, says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. “When I was young, I didn’t know any old people. When we did the microprocessor revolution, there was nobody old, nobody. It’s weird how old this industry has become.” The Microsoft cofounder and I, a couple...
May 1st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Can we stop the Cybernetic Revolution?

Can we stop the Cybernetic Revolution?
Introduction Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality, musician, and currently the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, worries about the future of human culture more than the gadgets. In his “Half a Manifesto” he...
April 12th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The Future of War

The Future of War
Cyber-war – the way of the future? Governments are increasingly preparing themselves for an internet-based attack on their essential service infrastructure, say security experts Jonathan Richards from the Times Online The prospect of inter-governmental cyber-war was something for which...
March 18th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution
This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...
February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Could you be a Bin Laden Model too?

Could you be a Bin Laden Model too?
Spanish politician to sue FBI over using his face for a hypothetical modern Bin Laden photo The FBI acknowledges having used Gaspar Llamazares as the model in a Bin Laden photo-fit. // The FBI acknowledges having used Gaspar Llamazares as the model in a Bin Laden photo-fit. ';images[1]=' FBI's...
January 22nd, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The dark side of the internet

The dark side of the internet
In the ‘deep web’, Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science....
January 14th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

A particle God doesn’t want us to discover?

A particle God doesn’t want us to discover?
Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say? Explosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment. Is it really nothing...
December 23rd, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More

Has dark matter finally been detected?

Has dark matter finally been detected?
Hunt may well be over for a mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of the mass of the universe. This article was written by Ian Sample for The Guardian A computer simulation shows how invisible dark matter coalesces in halos (shown in yellow). Photograph: Science Photo...
December 18th, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More
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