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Despite a half-century of exponential growth in computational power, the state of robotics is pretty much still the same, but that may not be true for much longer, according to Rodney Brooks former director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Read the rest of this entry »

Learning is a concept that is variously bandied about as a right, a privilege, a product, and a gift but what does it truly mean in the 21^st century, and how is technology changing our understanding of learning and its relation to education. By Malcom Ramsay & Cottage Labs. Read the rest of this entry »

Head scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory told the BBC he expects to see first glimpse of the Higgs boson by next week.  The finding of the mysterious fundamental particle will be a significant milestone at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), that was built with the hunt for the Higgs boson as a key goal.  The Higgs, notoriously difficult to define, helps us to understand why particles have mass. Read the rest of this entry »

The issue of GMOs in food market is closely related to the debate between liberalization and regulation, as demonstrated by the disputes in the WTO. Both asymmetry of information and perceived risk are two key assumptions for precaution in the EU. But, solutions at the US are quite different; as a figure, nine licenses have been approved in the EU while US has issued almost sixty.

By Tamara Guirao. Mgr: Dr. Sanja Pavlica. Read the rest of this entry »

IBM unveiles a new generation of computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. This new technology may reach to full Artificial Intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »

Our population is getting older. Recent findings from German researchers suggested a mechanism that is likely to protect the brain from aging: Switching off of the cannabinoid-1 receptor leads to faster aging of mouse brain.  By Dr. S. Pavlica. Read the rest of this entry »

As well as Three Miles Island Nuclear Power Plant accident was a “before” and “after” in nuclear regulations, there are one pre Fukushima and other post Fukushima facts, in a world where other similar races run the same, or worse way. By Major L. Loureiro. Read the rest of this entry »

Visual impairment is a big medical and public health problem that might be combated thanks to recent breakthrough in iPS technology to correct gene defect responsible for a blinding disorder in generated iPS produced from the patient’s own skin. By Dr. Pavlica. Read the rest of this entry »