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Scientists are looking for the warning signs that herald sudden changes in natural systems, in order to forestall those changes, or improve our preparations for them; UC theoretical ecologist Alan Hastings indicates: Our new study found, unfortunately, that regime shifts with potentially large consequences can happen without warning; systems can ‘tip’ precipitously. Read the rest of this entry »

MIT Sloan leader of  the initiative on Inventing the Organisations of the 21st Century, addresses the mental models that constrain management progress, the view of comprehensive goals for business versus how wrong people are about what business is for, and the role of collective intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers from U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center have reported new scientific evidence for the existence of low energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process called “cold fusion” that may promise a new source of energy.

The scientists describe the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons, tale signs that nuclear reactions are occurring. Low-energy nuclear reactions could potentially provide 21st Century society a limitless, safe, cheap and clean energy source for generating electricity. 
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Physicists at The University of Texas, Austin, have designed a new system that would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear fission plants. The invention would combat global warming by turning nuclear power mostly clean and thus a more viable replacement of carbon-heavy energy sources, such as oil or gas. Read the rest of this entry »

Innova Pulse, has been recently invited to contribute to ”The Future of Innovation Book”. Within its article, Innova Pulse extracts the need to empower innovative efforts focussed in us, our education, our practices of government and management, to the significant improvement of our world.

“The future of innovation Book” will be edited in the middle of 2009 with worldwide contributions, including relevant related organisations: Airbus, Nokia, Fraunhofer Institute, Cambridge Science park, IBM, Atos Origin, etc, appearing a very interesting initiative to contribute to the vision of innovation with influence within policy-makers, and therefore an effective way to improve the progress for our society. Read the rest of this entry »

University of California Irvine scientists has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy with the goal to develop communication systems based on thoughts, not on speech.
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First attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing today, 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up is available through Eurovision.
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Scientists at Tufts University under contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will develop chemical robots that will be so soft and squishy that they will be able to squeeze into spaces as tiny as 1 centimeter, then morph back into something 10 times larger, and ultimately biodegrade.
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The project is based on a controversial theory that may gain traction in light of new findings described in a leaked NASA memo about the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, when NASA caught early signs of China quake. The researchers hope to create a global network of roughly 20 satellites that would scan for telltale activity that some scientists (and old wives) say precedes large earthquakes.
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EADS Astrium with the Giove-B satellite, has been transmitting the highly precise Galileo signal on 7 May. An important milestone on the road to the European navigation system Galileo, has thus been attained. In the course of the ‘In-Orbit Validation’ (IOV) phase, lasting until 2010, the four navigation satellites already being built by prime contractor Astrium will be deployed in space.
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