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Nanotech and immortality: From the "out of left field" department, I've been finishing up my reading of Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near," a book I bought over eight months ago and hadn't got around to finishing yet. In my defense, at 651 pages and with enough cross-disiplinary technical...; Tags: Kurzweil, cell, Richard Smalley; Blog posts 2006-08-29
Open source science: Most science happens in silos. The chemists own the chemistry experiments, the biologists the biology experiments. It's like a collection of little, proprietary software enterprises, which don't share.In open source science the entire campus can share in the discovery process. It doesn't matter what your discipline is, you can find...; Tags: Richard Smalley; Blog posts 2005-10-31
Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell: Michael Kanellos writes that Richard Smalley, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 1996, believes that the global energy situation "may be a greater challenge for us than the Cold War" and that the consequences of ignoring the problem will be terrorism, pestilence, famine. The problem comes from a dire conflict...; Tags: Richard Smalley; Blog posts 2004-12-16

A Moore's Law for medical breakthroughs: In the world of medical research the chief contribution of this decade has been breaching the wall between organic and inorganic chemistry. Computing has made this possible. It can take a vast amount of computing power to create an enzyme from scratch. Thanks to distributed computing and...; Tags: Rice University, Computing, Moore, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-21
How radio waves really can kill cancer: When I first read this I thought it was crazy, but it's not. Scientists at Rice University and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are injecting carbon nanotubes into tumors, then hitting the tumors with radio waves. Lead scientist Steven Curley of M.D....; Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Radio, Scientist, Carbon Nanotube, Cancer, Nanotechnology, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-05

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