A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain.

He told the TED Global conference in Oxford that a synthetic human brain would be of particular use finding treatments for mental illnesses.

Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said.

"It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years," he said.

Electricity is so 20th-century. The future will be powered up by light. So let there be light!

New Haven, Conn. — A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to manipulate components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity.

The team previously discovered an "attractive" force of light and showed how it could be manipulated to move components in semiconducting micro- and nano-electrical systems-tiny mechanical switches on a chip. The scientists have now uncovered a complementary repulsive force. Researchers had theorized the existence of both the attractive and repulsive forces since 2005, but the latter had remained unproven until now. The team, led by Hong Tang, assistant professor at Yale's School of Engineering & Applied Science, reports its findings in the July 13 edition of Nature Photonics's advanced online publication.

Crop circles are large patterns that appear in fields of wheat, rye, barley and similar crops. The patterns can be intricate geometric, circular or abstract and are usually formed when the stems of the crop are broken at ground level or at node points and flattened to the ground in the same direction.

While some crop circles can be explained, others remain a mystery. The crop circles that cannot be proven to be man-made often exhibit peculiar characteristics that are difficult or impossible to duplicate.

This is stupendously amazing!

Picture a wall that stares back at you. Or a uniform that shows a soldier a 360-degree view of the battlefield. Both scenarios are possible courtesy of a new generation of flexible, translucent fibers developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. These so-called multimaterial fibers can turn incoming light waves into images without the need for a camera lens. And unlike fiber optic cables, they can transmit images that have been captured across their entire length.

 

This is another breakthrough for an all-solid-state future.

Below are the beans that should be optimized for your blood type based on the lectin work of Dr. D'Adamo. Please be clear that I am not endorsing his work as it is my experience that the insulin issues are far more important to balance health than selection of foods based on blood types. I have found that bean selection based on blood type to be a simple thing to do and most people do not seem to notice much difference between beans, so it makes sense to eat blood type optimized beans. Blood Type Highly Beneficial Neutral Avoid O Aduke, Azuki, Pinto, Black-eyed Black, Broad, Cannellini, Fava, Garbanzo, Green, Jicama, Lima, Northern, Red, Red Soy, Snap, String, White, Green Peas, Pea Pods Copper, Kidney, Navy, Tamarind, Domestic Lentils, Green Lentils, Red Lentils A Aduke, Azuki, Black, Green, Pinto, Red Soy, Domestic Lentils, Green Lentils, Red Lentils, Black-eyed Peas Broad, Cannellini, Fava, Jicama, Snap, String, White, Green Peas, Pea Pods, Snow Peas Copper, Garbanzo, Kidney, Lima, Navy, Red, Tamarind B Kidney, Lima, Navy, Red Soy Broad, Cannellini, Copper, Fava, Green, Jicama, Northern, Red, Snap, String, Tamarind, White, Green Peas, Pea Pods Aduke, Azuki, Black, Garbanzo, Pinto, Domestic Lentils, Green Lentils, Red Lentils, Black-eyed Peas AB Navy, Pinto, Red, Red Soy, Green Lentils Broad, Cannellini, Copper, Northern, Green, Jicama, Snap, String, Tamarind, White, Domestic Lentils, Red Lentils, Green Peas, Pea Pods Aduke, Azuki, Black, Fava, Garbanzo, Kidney, Lima, Black-eyed Peas From "Eat Right for Your Type" by Peter D'Adamo, ND

My blood type is B+ so I have to avoid garbanzos (or chickpeas). That means no more humus, and no more falafil sandwiches!

There's also a demand for a smart house that texts husbands when the wife is already fast asleep. That's the time they can get back home after doing "overtime work" at the office.

First, there is electric charge. Then there is the change in that charge over time, better known as current. Currents create magnetic fields, leading to a third variable, magnetic flux, which characterises the field's strength. Finally, magnetic flux varies with time, leading to the quantity we call voltage.

Four interconnected things, mathematics says, can be related in six ways. Charge and current, and magnetic flux and voltage, are connected through their definitions. That's two. Three more associations correspond to the three traditional circuit elements. A resistor is any device that, when you pass current through it, creates a voltage. For a given voltage a capacitor will store a certain amount of charge. Pass a current through an inductor, and you create a magnetic flux. That makes five. Something missing?

Indeed. Where was the device that connected charge and magnetic flux? The short answer was there wasn't one. But there should have been.

There used to be 3 basic circuit elements: resistor, capacitor, and inductor. Now, all textbooks need to be updated because a fourth element was discovered. It's called the memristor.