Five for the Future 07-30-11
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Dolphins have electroreception organs
- The ethics of animal enhancement
- Mining gas on Uranus
- A new map of the galactic habitable zone
- Astronomer's find Earth's first Trojan asteroid
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Five for the Future 7-2-11
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Acoustic cloaking devices
- Anissimov argues AI over IA (intelligence amplification)
- Aww yeah, hoverbikes
- The cybernetic singularity
- Designer psychologies: moving beyond neurotypicality
These and similar links can be found at http://delicious.com/infomorph
Five for the Future 05-03-11
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Electroadhesion for wall-climbing robots
- The ethics of creating AIs and forks
- Black trees on exoplanets
- Incapacitating light beams
- Firefighting with electricity
Five for the Future 03-06-11
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Two planets found sharing an orbit
- Cheating brainscan lie detectors
- Stars could have wormholes at their cores
- Metamaterials to make illusion cloaks
- Genetic policing ... with bees (video)
Five for the Future 03-03-11
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- The "paperclipper" x-risk
- Space beer (and also space burping)
- Radiation no concern for space crops
- Equatorial hole perfect for moon base
- Making a tractor beam with lasers
Five for the Future 02-14-11
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- New basilisk hack
- Bomb-detecting plants
- Storing data in bacteria
- Transgenic spider-silk bulletproof skin
- Genetic architecture
Five for the Future 12-27-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- First working microwave-spectrum invisibility "cloak" (video link)
- How black holes can leak (and allow FTL communications)
- Pluto may have an ocean
- Genetically-modified mouse sings like bird; may help develop language
- How many dwarfs are there?
Five for the Future 12-14-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Saturn's moon Rhea may have breathable atmosphere
- Cryovolcano found on Titan
- Ear biometrics
- Alternative prosthetic arm
- Is the future bisexual?
Five for the Future 12-5-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Life form using arsenic in its DNA discovered on Earth
- Twinkling stars may reveal wormholes
- Fingerprinting electronic devices
- Dark Jupiter may haunt edge of solar system
- Storing data in bacterial DNA
Five for the Future 10-12-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
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