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Checklist for science and technology advances

Ray Kurzweil

Executives anxious about bridging the gap between business as usual and exponential advances in science and technology have been given a checklist for their attention. These are the technologies recommended by the experts: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces, Networks & Computing Systems, and Energy & Environmental Systems.

These [...]

Hydrogen powered car breakthrough

As is often the case, researchers toiling in relative obscurity in a lab somewhere have a breakthrough that touches the lives of everyone on earth. That could well be what is happening at the University of Dayton, in Ohio, where an engineerig professor has made a discovery that could make fuel cells economical.

Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are [...]

Self-healing paints protect cars, bridges and ships from corrosion

Self healing paint developed at the University of Illinois covers its own scratches with no external intervention, according to a story in the MIT Technology Review. It has the ability to protect cars, bridges, and ships from corrosion.

Self healing paint covers its own scratches with no external intervention.

The self-healing elements, enclosed in mirocapsules that rip [...]