 
Discovery pinpoints new connection between cancer cells, stem cells
Telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in... (July 1, 2009) [Read more]
Sea level rise: It's worse than we thought
The continued melting of glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica will add another 10 to 20 centimeters to sea... (July 1, 2009) [Read more]
Robot rescue "rat" feels its way through rubble
A new robot with artificial whiskers could one day be used to locate survivors of natural disasters, or people trapped in... (July 2, 2009) [Read more]
Open-Source Data Glove
AcceleGlove, a low-cost programmable glove that records hand and finger movements, could be used for robotic control and in... (July/Auguest 2009) [Read more]
NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map Of Earth
NASA and Japan have released a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than ever before, produced... (July 1, 2009) [Read more]
Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man?
An electrochemical process for coating metal implants to make them resemble biological material vastly improves their... (June 29, 2009) [Read more]
Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors
Polymer-coated gold nanorods completely destroyed all tumors in a nonhuman animal model of human cancer with a single dose,... (June 29, 2009) [Read more]
Why microbes are smarter than you thought
Examples of "intelligent" behavior by microbes include chemical conversations and "quorum sensing" to decide when to launch an... (June 30, 2009) [Read more]
Review: Wetware by Dennis Bray
Living cells are chemical computers. (Volker Steger/Christian Barpelle/SPL) They take information from the environment and... (June 30, 2009) [Read more]
Carbon Ring Storage Could Make Magnetic Memory 1,000 Times More Dense
A method of improving storage density by three orders of magnitude using cobalt dimers on hexagonal carbon rings has been... (June 29, 2009) [Read more]
Toyota Develops Mind-Controlled Wheelchair
Toyota researchers have built a brain/machine interface that controls a wheelchair using EEG sensors placed over the areas of... (June 29, 2009) [Read more]
Singularity University - Day One
Day 1 at Singularity University featured discussions with Peter Diamandis and Ray... (June 29, 2009) [Read more]
Medicine's New Toolbox
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells (adult cells genetically reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells) could capture the... (July/August 2009) [Read more]
A Robot that Navigates Like a Person
European researchers have developed a robot capable of moving autonomously by algorithms designed to mimic different parts of... (June 30, 2009) [Read more]
Scientists create first quantum processor
A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary two-qubit solid-state quantum processor, taking... (June 26, 2009) [Read more]
Solar X-rays may create DNA building blocks on Titan
Blasting the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan with X-rays can produce adenine, a base component of DNA, a new laboratory study... (June 26, 2009) [Read more]
Africa alone could feed the world
There is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation,... (June 27, 2009) [Read more]
Physics brings realism to virtual reality
The latest multi-core processors and some smart software allow techniques used by physicists and engineers to simulate the real... (June 28, 2009) [Read more]
A Ham Radio Weekend for Talking to the Moon
On Saturday, amateur radio operators will bounce signals off the moon, using parabolic antenna radio telescopes around the... (June 26, 2009) [Read more]
Stem cell surprise for tissue regeneration
Genes that make muscle stem cells in the embryo are surprisingly not needed in adult muscle stem cells to regenerate muscles... (June 25, 2009) [Read more]
Domestic robots with a taste for flesh
Five domestic robots that gain energy by eating flies and mice, digested by an internal microbial fuel cell, have been built by... (June 25, 2009) [Read more]
Teenage 'baby' may lack master aging gene
Brooke Greenberg is 16 years old now (the picture shows her at age 11), but hasn't aged since she was an infant. Understanding... (June 25, 2009) [Read more]
Invisibility cloak could hide buildings from quakes
The physics of invisibility cloaks could allow for designing a cloak that could render objects "invisible" to destructive storm... (June 26, 2009) [Read more]
Hidden cancer threat to wildlife revealed
Cancer poses a serious threat to wild animals, say twp pathologists working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, the second... (June 24, 2009) [Read more]
Finding a fair price for free knowledge
If we really want to end scarcity, we will have to build institutions that promote knowledge-sharing, while at the same time... (June 24, 2009) [Read more]
Waterproof Lithium-Air Batteries
Lightweight, high-energy batteries that can use the surrounding air as a cathode are being developed by PolyPlus.... (June 26, 2009) [Read more]
Warning over 'superbug' risk from pets
Antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" originating in hospitals are now increasingly being found in cats and dogs, and in victims of... (June 23, 2009) [Read more]
Daily Coverage From Singularity University All Next Week
H+ magazine writer Lisa Rein will be sitting in on the first week of Singularity University, starting Monday, blogging daily... (June 26, 2009) [Read more]
Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook. By Simson Garfinkel * E-mail * Audio » o Listen - Flash o Listen - MP3 o Subscribe to podcast o
"We need to learn how to protect privacy by intention, not by accident," says security expert Simson Garfinkel. "Although... (July/August 2009) [Read more]
Singularity University Launches Inaugural Summer Program At Moffett Field
Singularity University (SU) -- the new academic institution with the goal of preparing the next generation of leaders to... (June 25, 2009) [Read more]
From X PRIZE to Singularity University
Dr. Peter Diamandis, Chairman of Singularity University, describes his vision for the new institution.... (June 19, 2009) [Read more]
Optogenetics
Optogenetics combines genetic engineering, lasers, neurology and surgery to create a mechanism for easier and more effective... (June 23, 2009) [Read more]
Interview With Singularity University Executive Director Salim Ismail
In a video interview, Singularity University Executive Director Salim Ismail offers an inside look at Singularity University's... (June 24, 2009) [Read more]
First acoustic metamaterial 'superlens' created
The world's first acoustic "superlens," which could lead to high-resolution ultrasound imaging, non-destructive structural... (June 24, 2009) [Read more]
Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity
If one percent of the power in high-altitude winds could be tapped by tethered kites floating in jet streams around 32,000... (June 24, 2009) [Read more]
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Openness and the Metaverse Singularity
By Jamais Cascio
The four worlds of the Metaverse Roadmap could also represent four pathways to a Singularity. But they also represent potential dangers. An "open-access Singularity" may be the answer. The people who ... (November 7th 2007)
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
By Vernor Vinge
It's 2045 and nerds in old-folks homes are wandering around, scratching their heads, and asking plaintively, "But ... but, where's the Singularity?" Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge--who originated... (March 14th 2007)
Foreword to The Intelligent Universe
By Ray Kurzweil
The explosive nature of exponential growth means it may only take a quarter of a millennium to go from sending messages on horseback to saturating the matter and energy in our solar system with sublim... (February 2nd 2007)
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BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists
By Richard A. Clarke
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. "Globegrid," a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combi... (May 18th 2007)
Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III
By William B. Scott
Space Wars by Willliam Scott, Michael Coumatos, and William Birnes, Forge Books (April 17, 2007) describes how the first hours of World War III might play out in the year 2010. While fiction, it's bas... (April 17th 2007)
The Moon as backup drive for civilization
By KurzweilAI.net
Imaginative new ideas for using space to protect civilization against existential risks, such as killer asteroids, nuclear war, and global terrorism, are in the works. The public increasingly sees NAS... (September 24th 2006)
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Why Language Is All Thumbs
By Chip Walter
Toolmaking not only resulted in tools, but also the reconfiguration of our brains so they comprehended the world on the same terms as our toolmaking hands interacted with it. With mirror neurons, some... (March 15th 2008)
AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds
By Ben Goertzel
Online virtual worlds have the power to accelerate and catalyze the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). As AGIs involved in this metaverse become progressively more intelligent from ... (October 18th 2007)
The Age of Virtuous Machines
By J. Storrs Hall
In the "hard takeoff" scenario, a psychopathic AI suddenly emerges at a superhuman level, achieving universal dominance. Hall suggests an alternative: we've gotten better because we've become smarter,... (June 1st 2007)
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Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness
By Rodney Brooks, Ray Kurzweil, and David Gelernter
Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic "zombies" or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even "spiritual" machines? David Gelernter ... (December 6th 2006)
Cyber Sapiens
By Chip Walter
...We will no longer be Homo sapiens, but Cyber sapiens--a creature part digital and part biological that will have placed more distance between its DNA and the destinies they force upon us than any o... (October 26th 2006)
Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
By Ray Kurzweil
The advent of strong AI (exceeding human intelligence) is the most important transformation this century will see, and it will happen within 25 years, says Ray Kurzweil, who will present this paper at... (July 13th 2006)
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Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future
By Aubrey de Grey
Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey expects many people alive today to live to 1000 years of age and to avoid age-related health problems even at that age. In this excerpt from his just-published,... (September 19th 2007)
Press ignores bias in study of multivitamins and prostate cancer
By Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
In a recent paper reporting on the National Cancer Institute study of multivitamin use and the risk of prostate cancer, the NCI authors cited several possible bias factors. An analysis by Ray Kurzweil... (May 25th 2007)
Strategic Sustainable Brain
By Natasha Vita-More
The human brain faces a challenging future. To cope with accelerating nanotech- and biotech-based developments in an increasingly complex world, compete with emerging superintelligence, and maintain i... (March 31st 2006)
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How to Build a Virtual Human
By Peter Plantec
Virtual Humans is the first book with instructions on designing a "V-human," or synthetic person. Using the programs on the included CD, you can create animated computer characters who can speak, dial... (October 20th 2003)
Remarks about Tod Machover In Presenting the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music
By Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil presented the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music to Tod Machover at the Fourth Annual Telluride Tech Festival (August 8-10, 2003). The award was in recognition of Machover's p... (August 11th 2003)
Glitches Reloaded
By Peter B. Lloyd
In Matrix Reloaded, how can Neo fly and use telekinesis if the Matrix is supposed to a physics simulation? Peter Lloyd decodes this and other technical enigmas--reverse-engineering the design of the M... (June 2nd 2003)
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Who Will Rule the 21st Century?
By Jack Welch
Straight-line extrapolation shows that China and India, with their faster growth rates, will eventually catch up to the U.S. in terms of pure economic size. But America has a final competitive advanta... (May 25th 2008)
EGOGRAM 2007
By Sir Arthur C. Clarke
The Golden Age of space travel is still ahead of us. Over the next 50 years, thousands of people will gain access to the orbital realm -- and then, to the Moon and beyond, says Sir Arthur, 89.... (February 7th 2007)
I'm Confident About Energy, the Environment, Longevity, and Wealth; I'm Optimistic (But Not Necessarily Confident) Of the Avoidance Of Existential Downsides; And I'm Hopeful (But Not Necessarily Optimistic) About a Repeat Of 9-11 (Or Worse)
By Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil responds to John Brockman's The Edge Annual Question - 2007: WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?
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Response to 'The Singularity Is Always Near'
By Ray Kurzweil
In "The Singularity Is Always Near," an essay in The Technium, an online "book in progress," author Kevin Kelly critiques arguments on exponential growth made in Ray Kurzweil's book, The Singularity I... (May 4th 2006)
Wolfram and Kurzweil Roundtable Discussion
By Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Wolfram
"The most dramatic possibility is the universe started from a simple initial condition that had some simple geometrical symmetry. It might be the case that if we turn our telescope off to the west, an... (February 24th 2006)
Ray Kurzweil Responds to Richard Eckersley
By Ray Kurzweil
"Eckersley bases his romanticized idea of ancient life on communication and the relationships fostered by communication. But much of modern technology is directed at just this basic human need."... (February 3rd 2006)
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Engines of Creation 2.0: Molecular Engineering: An Approach to the Development of General Capabilities for Molecular Manipulation
By K. Eric Drexler
Developing the ability to design protein molecules will make it possible to construct molecular machines. These can then build second-generation machines that can perform extremely general synthesis o... (March 20th 2007)
Engines of Creation 2.0: Advice To Aspiring Nanotechnologists
By K. Eric Drexler
It makes no practical sense to try to build a molecular assembler today. But we can build enabling technologies today, including protein engineering, general macromolecular engineering, and micromanip... (March 15th 2007)
Engines of Creation 2.0: Letter From Author
By K. Eric Drexler
Engines of Creation in 1986 inspired an explosion of interest in nanotechnology. Version 2.0 updates this classic book, including new concepts for molecular manufacturing and new uses for nanotech, s... (March 15th 2007)
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