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How technology can accelerate scientific innovation (our inspiration) …
“We’re overwhelmed with data and this might be a good way to find the data we need…The semantic web opens up boundaries between silos, to allow scientists to explore hypotheses, to look at how things connect in new combinations that have never been dreamt of.”
From Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, in which he explains how the new Semantic Web could have profound effects on the growth of knowledge and innovation (Business Week Special Report April, 2007). See a Video of Mr. Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web (link to MIT Technology Review).
In the News …
Genes Go Out on a Limb
Long before animals with limbs (tetrapods) came onto the scene about 365 million years ago, fish possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods), reports U Chicago Medical School researchers in the May 24 Nature. The finding overturns a long-held, but much-debated, theory that limb acquisition was a novel evolutionary event (full article).
Secret Magnetism isn't Secret Anymore
Using X-ray holograms, scientists at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, the London Centre for Nanotechnology, and the University of Chicago have gotten the first view of the inner workings of antiferromagnets—materials that exhibit “secret” magnetism undetectable at the macroscopic level. From the May 2 Nature and covered by the U Chicago News Office (full article), the experiments could lead to use in emerging technologies such as quantum computing.