Events

The latest technology in optics and lasers will be on display at the Optical Society’s (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), which takes place Oct. 11-15 at the Fairmont San Jose Hotel and the Sainte Claire Hotel in San Jose, Calif.
Information on free registration for reporters is contained at the end of this release. [...]

Few domestic policy areas that the new administration must address will have greater long-range consequences than nanotechnology — a new technology that has been compared with the industrial revolution in terms of its impact on society. If the right decisions are made, nanotechnology will bring vast improvements to almost every area of daily living. If [...]

ESA (European Space Agency) has opened applications for talented individuals wishing to become an astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps. There has not been a selection campaign since 1992, so this is a rare opportunity to be at the forefront of ESA’s human spaceflight programmes including future missions to the ISS, the Moon and beyond.
Prospective [...]

Social science plays an important part in all our lives. It shows that science is not just test tubes and technology but involves people and society too. It helps us to make sense of the key issues in the changing world around us such as the implications of climate change, nuclear power or nanotechnology; or [...]

There’s a kid waiting to meet you at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Like any kid, it will amuse you, it will ask you lots of questions, and it might even bother you a little bit. But unlike most kids, it doesn’t walk or talk, and it pays perfect attention. Meet Wizkid: [...]

The Wikimedia Foundation, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, announced today that it will host Wikipedia Academy workshops in various locations throughout South Africa on November 10 and 11, 2007. Co-hosted by South Africa-based nonprofit organization, iCommons, the goal of the Wikipedia Academies is to stimulate [...]

A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
Parallel processing is an approach that allows [...]

CABA Internet Home Alliance Research Council, a network of leading companies advancing the home technology market, will announce tomorrow at the 2007 Kitchen/Bath Industry Show (K/BIS) at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the results of its Digital Kitchen Study, intended to determine how consumers are using their kitchens today and what technology innovations homeowners would [...]

Three billion years of evolution can’t be wrong and scientists are observing Nature’s own adaptations to find solutions to human problems. This relatively new field of Biology is called Biomimetics and Biologists have been investigating its application to fabric development, new structural materials, even behaviour in organisations and education. Researchers will meet to present their [...]

nbsp;DareJunkies.com, a brand new video challenge social networking site, launched today by calling on members to submit one to two- minute videos of their most outrageous, absurd and hilarious deeds. With humor and imagination comes financial gain as one winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize by accepting one of the various challenges on the [...]

The latest content-shifting products and emerging technologies in the wireless industry will connect once again at the 2007 International CES, with the latest advancements in mobile phones, PDAs, wireless notebooks, wireless distribution systems and more on display. Produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the 2007 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, returns [...]

Jonathan Moreno discusses his new book, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Nov. 2006/Dana Press) in a public lecture featuring Jennifer Bard, Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Program, Texas Tech University; and, Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. [...]

Starting today, online fans have the opportunity to give one aspiring yarn spinner a shot at storytelling stardom.
As part of the “What’s Your Story?” contest sponsored by The Moth and TNT on MySpace, the public is being invited to view the videos submitted by the three storytelling finalists and vote for their favorite before December [...]

On the 28th of November, Europe’s largest online portal and ESA will produce the first-ever space Web video chat when ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter responds to questions via the Internet live from the International Space Station.
In a unique media tie-up, Germany’s leading Internet service provider, T-Online, and ESA will conduct a live space video chat [...]

Vying to be the world’s repository of interesting, strange and offbeat human interest stories and ideas, a new Web site called Experientialist.com is on a crusade to make the world a better place.
“Everyone talks about the world’s problems but few are offering solutions,” says Experientialist.com. “So we decided to do something about it, by offering $500 [...]

DBI, a California-based aerospace company involved in the research and development of thorium-fueled reactors, will host a forum on Thursday, November 30, from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on thorium as an abundant source of clean energy to meet the world’s growing energy needs.
The forum will address [...]

Global environmental change research plays a vital role in providing the scientific basis for policy and development agendas concerned with sustainable development. Yet, a major report by the UK government on the economic effects of climate change challenges the global science community to better inform governments on actions to take.
Sustainability is a central theme of [...]

Speaking as MC at the Information Security Technology event of the season, 30-Years of Public Key Cryptography - which was hosted and co-sponsored by Voltage Security and RSA, the security division of EMC, at the Computer History Museum, last Thursday - John Markoff, author and senior writer of The New York Times, stated that no [...]

Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corp. today announced the Ready 2 Rock Road Show, a series of day-long, hands-on events designed to help system builders make the most of myriad business opportunities afforded them by new and innovative products and technologies from Microsoft and Intel. The road show, to be held in 23 cities across the [...]

A conference in York later this month will signal the next phase of the development of an ambitious project to revolutionise broadband communications.
A University of York-led consortium, drawn from Europe and Japan, has spent three years demonstrating the use of balloons, airships or unmanned solar-powered planes as high-altitude platforms (HAPs) to relay wireless and optical [...]