From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 02:05:03 MST
[www.futureport.dk/news] Summary - 2002-20-12 (8 articles)
The Next Plastic Revolution
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[Science] Found by: maxm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/start.html?pg=6
Heeger and two colleagues won the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the
accomplishment: coaxing conductivity from plastic. (The material in the
vials is a luminescent semiconducting polymer.) Now their efforts, and
those of a growing number of chemists, physicists, and engineers, are
clearing the way for superthin digital screens, polymer computer memory,
disposable electronics, and a new generation of smartcards.
Big Idea, Bad Idea
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[Science] Found by: maxm
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-121902C
Is it possible to catalogue every human idea? Japan-based researcher
Darryl Macer thinks so, and last month he proposed in the journal Nature
to count the number of human ideas and map them. This plan, while a
clever attention grabber, will not succeed and demonstrates a worrisome
mode of thinking.
A Proposal for an Integrative Mental Mapping Project
Dizzying Diet News
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[Health] Found by: maxm
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-121902B
Almost every day brings a new study on the human diet. Most of them
contradict each other ("for the last time, does fiber prevent colon
cancer or not?!"), leaving readers perplexed about what and how much
they should be eating.
"Binary" Enzyme Created By Scripps Scientists Demonstrates Darwinian
Evolution At Its Simplest
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[Sci-fi] Found by: maxm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021219065007.htm
Two scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Research
Associate John S. Reader, D.Phil, and Professor Gerald F. Joyce, M.D.,
Ph.D., both of the institute's Department of Molecular Biology, have
succeeded in creating an enzyme based on a "binary" genetic code--one
containing only two different subunits.
Nanotechnology Under The Scope
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[Politics] Found by: maxm
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/today/dec4.html
Attention from advocacy groups, the publication of a highly anticipated
science-fiction novel, and soon-to-be-released environmental research
results are keeping a heightened focus on the possible societal impact
of the nanotechnology revolution. The result is that today--along with
all of the optimism for this emerging science--there is a sense of
caution about how the revolution ought to proceed, especially when it
comes to public communication.
Small molecule 2002's major find
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[Science] Found by: maxm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2591217.stm
The discovery that molecules called small RNAs control much of a gene's
behaviour - which may further research on cancer and stem cells - has
been cited as this year's big breakthrough.
Moon's youngest crater discovered
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[Space] Found by: maxm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2592075.stm
Astronomers have discovered the only known lunar crater to have been
formed in recorded history.
In 1953 a flash was seen on the Moon that was taken to be the impact of
a small asteroid. But ground-based telescopes were not powerful enough
to see any crater.
Bone Marrow Stem Cells Used to Create Brain Cells
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[Science] Found by: maxm
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20021220_6.html
Stem cells from a person's own bone marrow can be used to generate brain
cells and other nervous system cells that, when put back into the body,
may be a way to treat diseases like brain cancer or Alzheimer's,
researchers said on Friday.
-- hilsen/regards Max M http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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