http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress Recording the future of Science and Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:21:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image via Wikipedia You humble moderator has been hearing about telomere's and telomerase for hmmm, 10 years or so? Telomere's are little strands at the end of our chromosomes and they get shorter with each cell division, so that we're essentially born with an internal clock which is ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2009/11/14/mutant-genes-key-to-long-life/ Here at Future SciTech, your humble moderator does his best to find things that you'll find functional. But there is room for beauty in the world as well and I couldn't resist sharing this spectacular 360 degree panoramic view of the Milky Way with my friends! Enjoy! Courtesy  of the Southern European ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2009/11/14/a-spectacular-view/ Image via Wikipedia Now here's an interesting subject. Scientists have suspected for the last couple years that the moon had very significant amounts of frozen water stored underground and in craters. One of the limiting factors to space colonization is H2O since it serves a dual purpose: water ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2009/11/13/significant-amount-of-water-found-on-moon/ I stated yesterday that stem cell science and technology was at an absolutely remarkable stage. But it's difficult to see that going article by article, so I'm going to try something a bit different this time. Some of these are a bit dated, but they still represent the top of the ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/the-science-and-technology-and-future-of-stem-cells/ Sigh. 3 months gone by that fast huh? Ok. To make it up, I'm going to, over the next few weeks, post a lot of articles about a single topic for now: Stem Cells. If even half of what I've been reading is true, we may have found the fountain of ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2009/11/10/stem-cell-news-part-1/ Sometimes in the development of science and technology, serendipity and luck play a large part, such as the following: According to a report in Discovery Magazine: Seeing in the dark could soon be as easy as popping a pill or squeezing some drops into your eyes, thanks to some new science, an ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2009/09/08/chlorophyll-eye-drops-give-night-vision/ Your humble moderator will grant you that it'll take a significant amount of time, but the results of this one ought to be spectacular. Science now reports: It's large, it's fast, and it's heading toward the Milky Way. Less than 40 million years from now, a giant cloud of hydrogen gas, clocked ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2008/01/12/cosmic-cloud-on-collision-course/ This comes under the wowsers category. Halfway back to the big bang, a short gamma ray burst 100 times more powerful than most. Science Daily reports: ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2008) — Using the powerful one-two combo of NASA’s Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected a mysterious type of cosmic ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/mysterious-explosion-detected-in-the-distant-past/ Your humble moderator has spent a lot of time reading scitech articles and many of them have been about the future of solar cells. I've read about them for a long, long time and finally something is being done with them. It would be wonderful if we could capture even ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2008/01/08/nanosolar-prints-first-flexible-solar-cells/ It seems to your humble moderator that this kind of computer technology comes under the category of "Big Brother." It's easy to say that this kind of thing will be used for productivity gains, but it's waaaay too easy to corrupt something like this into an all around spy tool ... http://futurescitech.interneticsonline.com/wordpress/2008/01/08/microsoft-readies-hal-9000/