Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next
40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden
explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research
and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no
distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between
physical and virtual reality.

University
of Hawai’i researcher Michael Antal has developed a working fuel cell
that uses charcoal as its fuel and operates at bread-baking
temperatures.

Thomas Frey: "Is it not
conceivable that people in the future will have the technology to view
the past?" asks the reclusive physicist as he reaches across the table
for his coffee cup. "And if so, don’t you think they would have the
technology to be watching us right now?" This statement caused me to
pause and rethink the […]

An Idiomatic Expression is a colorful phrase commonly used in the English language with a less than obvious meanings. These expressions are typically the area that confounds foreign people the most when they try to learn the english language.

A new super-sensitive microscope has been used to track the real-time motion of a
single protein. The microscope is able to zoom down to the scale of its individual atoms, revealing how genes are copied from DNA – a process essential to life.

A mobile phone has been invented for dogs. The bone-shaped device, called Petscell, will fit on the
animal’s collar and is scheduled to go on sale next year.

Robert Cringely: Internet use in American homes is still growing, but the pace of that
growth is slowing according to a study released this week by Parks
Associates, a market research firm from Dallas, Texas. Based on a
sample of 1,000 U.S, households, the survey concluded that 42 percent
of U.S. homes have broadband, 22 percent use […]

There has been a sharp rise in British women giving birth to their first child in their 30’s and 40’s.

Shunpei Yamazaki has 1,432 patents and is the largest patent holder in US history……..and he lives in Japan. Yes, it seems to be true: The top individual
holder of U.S. patents is based at Tokyo tech research firm
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory. For decades, the popular assumption
has been that Thomas Edison is the all-time patent king with 1,093
patents. […]