Innova Pulse

Outsights 21 Drivers for the 21st CenturyTM, develops a programme of leading edge ideas and insights into the Future, supported by rigorous horizon scanning and futures research, over several years work in most continents, cultures and sectors, and through pioneering work such as leading the Sigma Scan, the UK Government’s future scan to 2050. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven years ago, GEO600 started to look for gravitational waves (ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as black holes). GEO600 has not detected gravitational waves so far, but it might have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century: Our Cosmos may be sourced from the boundary of Universe as a hologram. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Imagine the planet’s collective brainpower and computing power brought together to address some of the world’s toughest problems, like global climate change, cancer or global crisis.  It sounds like science fiction, but researchers at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) are looking for it to reality.

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A team led by MIT researchers have released the most comprehensive independent review of the future of NASA spaceflight program undertaken in many years. The report recommends setting loftier goals for humans in space, focusing research more clearly toward those goals, and increasing cooperation with other nations and private industry.

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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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What you say in a conversation — whether it’s on a first date, a job interview — may be less important than how you say it. But the cues that may decide the outcome can be so subtle that neither person in the conversation is consciously aware of them. Whether or not you get the job, or the other person’s phone number, is very strongly influenced by unconscious factors such as the way one person’s speech patterns match the other’s, the level of physical activity as people talk, and the degree to which one person sets the tone — literally — of the conversation.

These subtle cues provide “honest signals” about what’s really going on and strongly predict the outcome, according to research by the MIT Media Lab’s Alex Pentland and his colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »

Crisis is in the air; old economical corporations are trembling upon lack of confidence within the epicentre of the financial tsunami, which might be originated by the management of many corporations influencing economy, using to look just to short term economic revenue as almost unique guidance of corporate government practices.
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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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