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Why Our Brains Love Curvy Architecture
People are far more likely to call a room beautiful when its design is round instead of linear. The reason may be hard-wired into the brain.<p>When the great architect Philip Johnson first visited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, he started to cry. “Architecture is not about …
ImagingMIT has built a dark-matter hunter out of a modified particle accelerator
Dark matter is estimated to make up a vast majority of the universe's mass, yet no one has ever definitively detected it before. Now researchers from MIT are working to modify a particle accelerator to allow it to test select theories on what dark matter could actually be like. The work, described …
How is the NSA’s vault of secrets being unlocked?
<b>Media organisations have revealed startling details about US espionage in recent weeks. The disclosures can be traced back to three people who don't play by the rules - intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and his chief disseminators, the Guardian newspaper reporter Glenn Greenwald, and independent</b> …
SurveillanceBlackBerry met with Facebook to discuss potential takeover: report
BlackBerry Ltd. has discussed the possibility of a sale to Facebook Inc., The Wall Street Journal reports today.<p>The report had few details, saying only that executives of the embattled smartphone maker flew to California last week to meet with Facebook and suss out whether the social network might …
LineupWhat does the future of drones look like?
An annual convention offers a glimpse at new drone technologies, from solar-powered vehicles to autonomous Roombas<p>Last week in Washington, D.C., the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the world's largest trade association for unmanned vehicles (better known as drones), held its …
Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing
Biocomputers make maps, run logic gates, perform binary calculations and more.<p>Not all computers are made of silicon. By definition, a computer is anything that processes data, performs calculations, or uses so-called logic gates to turn inputs (for example, 1s and 0s in binary code) into outputs. …
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, "That …
5 Habits of Highly Effective Communicators
Have you ever walked away from talking with someone that you’ve just met and thought to yourself <b>“Wow, this was one of the best conversations I’ve</b> …
Self-improvement24 Techniques to Market a Product on a Tight Budget
Learning how to market a product on a tight budget is not as difficult as you think. It requires that you learn how to combine <i>content marketing</i> with</i> …
Robotic insects make first controlled flight
In culmination of a decade's work, RoboBees achieve vertical takeoff, hovering, and steering<p>Cambridge, Mass. — In the very early hours of the …
MIT and Harvard's 3D-Printed Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself
The first sure sign of a robot uprising will be when robots gain self-awareness and begin acting autonomously – and if this self-assembling robot is …
This Bacterium Can Do Division, Compute Logarithms And Take Square Roots
MIT researchers engineered bacterial cells to function as living calculators.<p>A group of engineers from MIT have created analog calculators out of living cells, according to a paper published online in <i>Nature</i> yesterday. By tweaking the genes of bacterial cells, the researchers were able to create …
What Ant Colony Networks Can Tell Us About What’s Next for Digital Networks
Ever notice how ant colonies so successfully explore and exploit resources in the world … to find food at 4th of July picnics, for example? You may …
The Story of Enrico Dini - The Man Who Prints Houses
Shares 10<p><i>I came across this interesting interview from the Dutch technology magazine ‘De Ingenieur’ with Enrico Dini and translated it for you to</i> …
How to grow your own island
<i>This article was taken from the July 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and</i> …
Thought experiment: the plan to build a supercomputer replica of a human brain
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Faster Forward, Together
How Can You Use Digital Marketing To Your Existing Customers? <i>bookmark_border</i> Kevin Layton<p>Marketers love their customers. So much so that they want …
3D Printer Can Build You A House In 20 Hours: Welcome To The Future
We've seen 3D printers used for everything from iPhone cases to makeshift weapons, but if you think bigger, what can these new printers really be …
Norwegian Town Creates 'Artificial Sun' to Light Up Dark Winter Days
The small Norwegian town of Rjukan is getting its own artificial sun this month. Engineers are completing The Mirror Project—a system of three 300 …
Die, Links, Die! How Link 'Suicide' Could Save the Web
<i>"Studying biological systems is perhaps the best way to understand the complex networks that humanity has created. More than anything else,</i> …
Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video]
One day, they could be used to monitor soil. Or your inner organs.<p>This robot is putting down roots. Recently at the Living Machines conference in London, researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology debuted a system of robotic roots that can grow and turn in response to stimuli in their …
Architectural Ecologies of the Near Future
Home > Articles > Architectural Ecologies of the Near Future<p>Posted: Thu, May 23, 2013 | By: Miscellaneous<p><b>by Rachel Armstrong</b><p>Wafer thin artificial …
A Light Bulb Powered By Bacteria
Three college students are building an electricity-free light bulb for the masses.<p>We've all basked in the glow of different light bulbs: incandescent, fluorescent, halogen, neon, LED, and more. But a lamp that harbors living, light-emitting bacteria -- a biological bulb, if you will -- is something …