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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Genomics, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Robotics, Science Policy, Space, The Brain, Video on 02 8th, 2012 | No Comments

White House Stages Science Fair

President Obama fires a marshmallow gun and lets robots roam his White House at the White House Science Fair. Three-year-old Danielle Fairchild probably can’t grasp the magnitude of what she’s enabled. The little girl adopted by Fred and Dale Fairchild in Duluth, Georgia was born with half...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Is Metal the New Building Block of Life?

The focus of Lee Cronin’s work is understanding and controlling self-assembly and self-organisation in chemistry to develop functional molecular and nano-molecular chemical systems; linking architectural design with function and recently engineering system-level functions.Lee Cronin's Lab Searches...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Inventions, Physics and Chemistry, Robotics, Video on 11 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Softbots Slither in Tight Spaces

(no audio to accompany video) After the earthquake in Japan or Haiti robots were pretty useless in sifting through rubble to find survivors. They also didn’t do well in off-road situations where the environment had shifted and they couldn’t maneuver over obstacles. But a chemist at Harvard...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Math, Video on 08 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Project Shiphunt Puts Adventure in Science

What started out as an educational lesson turned into real-world adventure for five high school students from Sagniaw, Michigan. The students from Arthur Hill High School, near Michigan’s Shipwreck Alley on Lake Huron located two missing ships at the bottom of the lake. In a science outreach collaboration...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 07 19th, 2011 | No Comments

The Internet Is Rewiring our Brains

Psychologists have learned that the Internet is becoming a primary form of transactive memory, meaning the information is external or stored outside of the person. For some it is becoming far easier to reach for a keyboard than to try to extract a piece of information from the brain. Google and Yahoo!...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Featured Articles, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 06 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Crowdsourcing Humanity

Now that we’ve been living in the Information Age for over 50 years, it’s safe to say we’ve become quite proficient at gathering data. We’ve built elaborate systems to collect and transmit data. We’ve also built elaborate systems to protect and encrypt personal information...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Consumer Safety, Engineering, Inventions, Video on 06 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Driverless Cars Take to French Roads

It sounds like something from science-fiction — but it’s actually the latest brainchild from town planners in the western French town of La Rochelle. Small electric cars without drivers steer themselves through the streets taking locals and tourists around town in the first driverless car...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 05 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Robot Orchestra Makes Music

Students at the California Institute of the Arts have built an orchestra of interactive musical robots. Musicians use specialized computer programs to play the robotic instruments. The Associated Press sat in on a rehearsal for the group’s May 12 concert. Tammy, BreakBot, NotomotoN, GlockenBot...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Podcast, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 03 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Robots Debut in New Opera

Call them operabots. In a marriage of music and media, a team at the MIT Media Lab has infused an opera with robotic technology. In Death and the Powers, a new opera by Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Video on 03 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Looky Here! Eye Tracking Coming to PCs

Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A Lenovo laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality. Touch screen and movement based technology is quickly supplanting the mouse as the standard way to interact with computers. But a company is looking down the road to make our interface with machines more user...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Video on 02 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Computers to Reach Human Level by 2029

Ray Kurzweil, chairman and chief executive officer of Kurzweil Technologies, discusses artificial intelligence and the impact of computer technological advancements on society. Based on the recent artificial intelligence accomplishment of a machine beating man at the game show Jeopardy!, futurist Kurzweil...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Inventions, Video on 02 16th, 2011 | No Comments

Machine Beats Man in Game Show Battle

Hundreds were put in jeopardy tonight at the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in upstate New York. But there was no danger. They were there to watch two humans take on a super computer named Watson on the TV game show Jeopardy! Spoiler alert. The computer wins. Bested by the super smart machine,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Diseases, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Scientainment, Video on 01 14th, 2011 | No Comments

IBM Computer v. Jeopardy Champs

In Jeopardy’s! 47 year history, there has NEVER been a contestant like Watson. And who knew the first public face-off between man and machine would be a TV game show. Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter represented humanity in a demonstration of intellectual prowess against a new...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, SciClips on 10 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Ant Security

When the ants go marching two by two, pay attention to what they are doing. Scientists are. And they are discovering clever ways to improve cyber security just by mimicking the behavior of ants. The foraging insects use something called swarm intelligence to efficiently locate and gather food. Computer...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Featured Articles, SciClips on 07 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Science of…Animal Spies

The government has enlisted the help of furry critters and buzzing bugs to further its military mission of surveillance, defense and even weaponization. From carrier pigeons that carried encoded messages during World War II to canine suicide bombers, animals have been conscripted into global conflicts...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biology, Climate Change, Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, RawAudio, SciClips, Space, The Brain on 06 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Science For All

In a move to take science from the lab and place it in the public square, the World Science Festival is about to start its second year of inciting curiosity. REALscience talked with organizer and physicist Brian Greene to hear what we can expect at this year’s festival. Photo: Physicist and Co-Founder...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, The Brain, Video on 04 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Twitter Your Brains Out

The newest social media kid on the block is now a conduit for thought-provoked messages. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have figured out how to send short text messages to microblogging service Twitter just by thinking about it. Using brain waves to communicate sounds a lot like science fiction...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 16th, 2009 | No Comments

The Wizard of Light

Dr. Mark Kuzyk is a Washington State University physics professor, who accidentally blew up a podium using a glove and some liquid oxygen. But he is also a physicist working on medical technology and wants to use smart materials to turn your couch into an iPod. He studies the photomechanical effect...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Engineering, Math, SciClips, The Brain on 11 26th, 2008 | No Comments

Six Degrees of Internet Black Holes

Hidden Metric Space, courtesy of CAIDA, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego. Scientists are worried that the Internet is becoming a clogged superhighway, complete with bottlenecks where information seems to disappear. These electronic misfires are called Internet black holes. And, they seem...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Climate, Genomics, SciClips, SciLebs on 11 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Hollywood Gets Science

As the line between fact and fiction blurs in television and film productions, Hollywood is turning to the National Academies of Science for a much-needed dose of reality. A new initiative, called the Science & Entertainment Exchange was announced yesterday and will match creative screenwriters...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biofuels, Biology, Climate Change, Dinosaurs, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Genomics, Geoengineering, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, SciClips, Space, Wave Power on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments

One Celled Solutions

Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections? But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Marine Science, SciClips on 06 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Robofish on The Move

Dr. Kristi Morgansen sends commands to her robofish, courtesy of University of Washington A group of University of Washington engineers have built a school of fish. The underwater robots look like fish, act like fish and thanks to some clever programming, move like fish. Robofish on The Move [ 2:50...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Engineering, SciClips on 05 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Monkey Movement

Monkey using mechanical arm, courtesy of University of Pittsburgh Scientists are teaching monkeys how to operate a mechanical arm by using just their thoughts. Monkey Thoughts [ 2:14 ]

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