Category Archives: RL: Five for the Future

Using nano to control the weather … and more The failures of voice print biometrics Placebo gene discovered New blast-protection adhesive Sex-chip stimulates pleasure center of brain

One space power to rule them all Saturn’s moon a good candidate for alien life Injectable artificial bone developed Scientists extract images directly from brain The clear future of electronics

Making an old brain young by regenerating neural plasticity Tandem warheads for defeating reactive armor Organic sugar molecules could point to alien life Material discovered that’s almost as hard as diamond and slicker than teflon What a mere 10 years of abundant computing will bring us

Remote-control miscroscopic bio-bots Super-hydrophobic nano-coating never gets wet A shadow biosphere of alien life on Earth? Huge buried water glaciers on Mars 5 social media trends to watch out for

DNA fiberoptics Biosensing carbon nanotube threads NASA tests deep space internet First optical photos of an exoplanet (see also) Review of Singularity Summit 2008