Category: Longevity & Health
Drug Delivery Microchip Implanted in Patients, Passes Human Trial
Written by: Peter Murray 16 hours ago
A remote drug delivery system has successfully been tested in a human trial. A microchip was implanted in 8 women [...]
U.S. Being Left In The Dust Of The Global Telecommuting Revolution
Written by: David Hill 2 days ago
A recent poll from Ipsos/Reuters shows the extent of workplace evolution as well as the fallout of globalization. Nearly 1 [...]
“Heart Stop Beating” – New Film Documents Heartless Man
Written by: Peter Murray 2 days ago
By criteria doctors conventionally use to analyze patients, Craig Lewis was dead. He had no heartbeat, no pulse, his EKG [...]
Gene Therapy For Blind Again A Success, More Patients To Be Treated
Written by: Peter Murray 7 days ago
In 2009, 12 people participated in a clinical trial through which they received an experimental gene therapy for an inherited [...]
Scientists Use Brain Waves To Eavesdrop On What We Hear
Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago
The day we can scan a person’s brain and “hear” their inner dialogue just got closer. Scientists at the University [...]
While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper Bound. Why?
Written by: Peter Murray 9 days ago
Ray Kurzweil predicts that in the coming decades the term “life expectancy” will become irrelevant. By then medical advances and [...]
Can A Free Online Education Land You A Job? The Era Of Online Education Dawns
Written by: David Hill 10 days ago
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced an initiative to create a learning platform for online education. Preliminarily dubbed [...]
Meet The Author Of “Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK”
Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago
Growth is a good thing, right? It’s the buzzword on seemingly every politician’s lips, the answer to our economic woes. [...]
Man Receives New Bionic Hand With Electronic Opposable Thumb
Written by: Peter Murray 15 days ago
On January 12 Matt Razink received a prosthetic hand equipped with an electric opposable thumb. The Michelangelo Hand has given [...]
Another First For 3D Printing – Woman Receives Jaw Implant
Written by: Peter Murray 16 days ago
An 83-year-old woman suffering from a lower jaw infection became the first person to receive a jaw implant manufactured with [...]
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The Current State Of Wind Power — 2012 Should Be The Biggest Year Yet
Written by: David Hill 22 days ago
When Barack Obama ran for President back in 2008, one of the ‘changes’ that he set forth was a New [...]
SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones
Written by: Peter Murray 27 days ago
The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]
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iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA
Written by: Peter Murray 28 days ago
We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]
gahlinger
We are indeed 'innudated' by aliens -- perhaps this undefined term is perfect to describe the equally undefined nature of these singularity fields.
Matthew
to clarify; i agree that absurd was not the best word choice. no scientific question is absurd, no matter how irrelevant or inapplicable it seems. even if [...]
IvoryTowerScientist
I can not help but think if singularity-level civilizations had come to Earth and seen human civilization in the past ten thousand years they might have stepped [...]