http://www.thoughtware.tv/site/list Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:00:07 GMT Thoughtware.TV's RSS News Feed http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/mu-dnb031710.php (McGill University) A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes. http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8087 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/nios-lgs031710.php (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Stacked sheets of graphene may be a promising material for capturing and storing hydrogen for future fuel-cell systems according to recent research at NIST and the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8086 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uom-ltr031710.php (University of Michigan) In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles. http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8085 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/s-cfo031710.php (Springer) Thomson ISI has announced that Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press, is now listed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded. The academic journal, founded in July 2008, has been covered in the index from Volume 1, Issue 1. Na... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8084 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11946 MIT researchers have developed a new technique that may lead to shrinking chip features, using chainlike self-assembling molecules that arrange themselves into complex patterns to create desired patterns. The method uses electron-beam lithography (which is more precise than conventional optical l... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8083 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11945 Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed nanocomposites that boost the capacity of lithium ion batteries by five times by hanging nanometer-sized silicon particles on trees of carbon black, which then self-assemble into porous micron-sized spheres. The resulting electrode remains s... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8082 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/mdi-mdc031610.php (Materials Design, Inc.) A Materials Design client and colleague, Dr. Louis G. Hector, Jr. of the General Motors R&D Center, has been honored with two GM R&D Innovation Awards for his research on fundamentals of interfacial tribology and multi-scale modeling of high-temperature deformation in aluminu... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8081 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uoc-ffa031610.php (University of Cincinnati) In natural photosynthesis, plants take in solar energy and carbon dioxide and then convert it to oxygen and sugars. The oxygen is released to the air and the sugars are dispersed throughout the plant -- like that sweet corn we look for in the summer. Unfortunately, the allo... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8080 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11944 Computational analysis of existing data bases can dramatically shorten the time required to discover the specific combination of new genes involved in certain biological processes, Stanford University researchers have found. The analytic methods can provide clues about where researchers should look... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8079 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11943 The Federal Communications Commission announced on Monday its long-awaited plan to bring broadband Internet connections to every home and business in the United States. It is aimed at raising the portion of people with high-speed Internet connections to 90 percent, from the current 65 percent, over... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8078 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11941 Researchers at Korea University in Seoul have demonstrated a prototype of a new biomonitoring system that transmits data through the body, replacing wires and minimizing the need for batteries. In a test, they transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person's arm, using a meta... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8077 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11942 Tao Xie at General Motors has twisted and stretched a Nafion strip into three distinct shapes, and found that it will revert to each shape at the appropriate temperature. Nafion is polymer material used in some fuel cells. Previously the best shape-memory polymers were able to remember only two shap... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8076 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11940 Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have found that a memristor can behave uncannily like the junctions between neurons in the brain. A memristor is a resistor with a memory -- its resistance at any moment depends on the last voltage it experienced, so its behavior can be used to ... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8075 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11939 This summer, Rutgers University plans to offer "Special Topics in Sociology: Singularity Studies, the first accredited college course on the Singularity and associated technologies. The three-credit summer course will feature online lectures and discussions every Monday and Wednesday evening throug... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8074 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D11938 Twitter's Evan Williams has announced @platform, which will allow publishers to integrate Twitter deeper into their sites. Users will be able to follow a site's or columnist's feed without every having to leave the site, and publishers will be able to find more followers. (Source: http://www.read... http://www.thoughtware.tv/news/show/8073