Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured human cells

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/01/telomere-extension-turns-back-aging-clock-in-cultured-cells.html

The coming era of unlimited—and free—clean energy

http://wadhwa.com/2014/09/19/the-coming-era-of-unlimited-and-free-clean-energy/

Peter Diamandis' Bold a Reminder of How Entrepreneurs Will Control the World's Fate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivek-wadhwa/peter-diamandis-bold_b_6525886.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology

Fish found under Arctic ice

http://time.com/3681478/antarctica-fish/?xid=newsletter-brief

I would think this increases the possibility for life--even complex life--to exist on Europa and Enceladus.

Solar project for Panhandle would be Florida's largest

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-solar-duke-gulf-announcements-20150122-story.html

Could our galaxy be a navigable wormhole?

http://www.universetoday.com/118423/the-entire-milky-way-might-be-a-huge-wormhole-thats-stable-and-navigable/

Super-hydrophobic surface created

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLegmQ8_dHg

The danger of using nanotubes for medical devices

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-limitations-carbon-nanotubes-blood-medical.html

Self-assembled nanotextures create antireflective surface on silicon solar cells

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-self-assembled-nanotextures-antireflective-surface-silicon.html

Why It's Taking The U.S. So Long To Make Fusion Energy Work

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/fusion-energy-reactor_n_6438772.html

Dubai solar facility to be built for half the cost of US electrical power

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/18/record-low-solar-energy-price-is-a-lot-cheaper-tha.aspx

Car battery technology approaching the tipping point

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/18/the-scientific-breakthrough-that-will-completely-c.aspx

Elon Musk donates $10M to ‘keep AI beneficial’

http://www.kurzweilai.net/elon-musk-donates-10m-to-keep-ai-beneficial?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=623517c3d2-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-623517c3d2-281903081

Grid parity: Why electric utilities should struggle to sleep at night

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/03/25/grid-parity-why-electric-utilities-should-struggle-to-sleep-at-night/

New material, technique efficiently produce hydrogen, syngas fuel feedstock

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-material-technique-efficiently-hydrogen-syngas.html

DNA robots to attempt to cure late-stage leukemia this year, then repair spinal cords

Wow:

http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=6410

"A human patient with late stage leukemia will be given DNA nanobot treatment. Without the DNA nanobot treatment the patient would be expected to die in the summer of 2015. Based upon animal trials they expect to remove the cancer within one month.

Within 1 or 2 years they hope to have spinal cord repair working in animals and then shortly thereafter in humans."

Atomically precise manufacturing to arrive within a decade?

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1417633678.php

Solar at grid parity in most of the world within 2 years

http://www.kurzweilai.net/solar-at-grid-parity-in-most-of-the-world-within-2-years?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=635a8c7b63-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-635a8c7b63-281903081

Energy-harvesting discovery generates 200 times higher voltage to power wearables, other portable devices

http://www.kurzweilai.net/energy-harvesting-discovery-generates-200-times-higher-voltage-to-power-wearables-other-portable-devices?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=635a8c7b63-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-635a8c7b63-281903081

4 Things I Learned Driving a Tesla for 10,000 Miles

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/11/4-things-i-learned-driving-a-tesla-for-10000-miles.aspx

Is the solar panel & battery combo ready to change energy markets?

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/11/is-the-solar-panelbattery-combo-ready-to-change-energy-markets/

Intel's $150 HDMI Stick Turns Any TV Into a Windows Desktop

http://ces.gizmodo.com/intels-150-hdmi-stick-turns-any-tv-into-a-windows-desk-1678550370

Why the United States Is Moving Slowly on Renewable Energy

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/07/united-states-moving-slowly-on-renewables-2-charts.aspx

GraphExeter defies the Achilles heel of 'wonder material' graphene

http://phys.org/print339873773.html

Cheap Solar Power Emerges From Perovskites

"Using the material in a hybrid cell may eventually boost efficiency to more than 40 percent"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-07/cheap-solar-power-emerging-from-mineral-named-for-russian-count.html

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Identifies 1,000 Alien Planets

http://www.livescience.com/49355-nasa-kepler-spacecraft-1000-exoplanets.html?cmpid=558952

Google Backs Utah’s Largest Solar Power Plant

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/06/google-backs-utahs-largest-solar-power-plant/?mod=yahoo_hs

Google wants to make wireless networks that will free you from AT&T and Verizon’s data caps

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/google-wants-wireless-networks-free-t-verizon-data-180034085.html

Number of terrestrial planets in their stars' habitable zone now doubled

http://www.universetoday.com/117881/new-finds-from-kepler-8-new-worlds-discovered-in-the-habitable-zone/

The Most Ingenious Gadgets From CES 2015

http://time.com/3653602/ces-gadgets/?xid=newsletter-brief

And this is the ultimate device for the selfie generation:

http://flynixie.com/

Removable electric batteries for quick charging

For scooters first, but with broader potential applications:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7484171/gogoro-smartscooter-electric-scooter-removeable-battery

Obama’s big research push kicks off with a meeting of the minds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-research-initiative-seeks-to-create-new-tools-to-understand-the-human-brain/2015/01/02/dce17f02-7bb8-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html

Two mistakes about the threat from artificial intelligence

https://agenda.weforum.org/2014/12/two-mistakes-about-the-threat-from-artificial-intelligence/

Resveratrol activates ancient stress response at 1,000 times lower doses

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20141222schimmel.html

A step toward a potential anti-aging drug

http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-step-toward-a-potential-anti-aging-drug?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a0174ace0d-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-a0174ace0d-281903081

India Plans the World's Largest Solar Power Plant

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/28/india-plans-the-worlds-largest-solar-power-plant.aspx

The First Prototype of Google’s Self-Driving Car

Only 25 mph top speed? Not impressive...but this one should be on the market in just a few years:

http://time.com/3644661/google-self-driving-car-prototype/?xid=newsletter-brief

Utilities fighting back against solar customers

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/22/3605710/new-mexico-utility-charge-solar-owners-30-a-month/

Chinese solar panels hit with a anti-subsidies, anti-dumping tariffs

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/20/us-deals-major-blow-to-chinese-solar-manufacturers.aspx

I would think this is ultimately good news for US manufacturers, though not as much for consumers in the short term.

Solar With Batteries to Hit $1 Billion in U.S. by 2018

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-18/solar-paired-with-batteries-to-reach-1-billion-in-u-s-by-2018.html?cmpid=yhoo

Multiferroic heroics put instant-on computing in sight

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/12/multiferroic-heroics-put-instant-computing-sight

In one aspect of vision, computers catch up to primate brain

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/computer-neural-networks-identify-objects-like-primate-brain-1218

Could ibuprofen be an anti-aging medicine?

http://www.buckinstitute.org/buck-news/could-ibuprofen-be-an-anti-aging-medicine

Minnesota could supply more than 50 percent of its power needs through renewable energy by 2030

http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2014/12/18/report-sees-bright-future-for-renewable-energy-in-minnesota/

More on the Skype language translator (with video)

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/skype-used-ai-build-amazing-new-language-translator/

Evidence Of Life On Mars?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/life-on-mars_n_6337610.html

How Scientists Are Building Tiny Microscopic Motors

https://screen.yahoo.com/scientists-building-tiny-microscopic-motors-140000866.html

Graphene can be made magnetic

http://gizmodo.com/a-little-lead-can-make-graphene-magnetic-1671641756

AT&T made predictions in 1994 that have come true

http://news.yahoo.com/live-future-t-imagined-1994-161500780.html

I'm especially amused by the claim that voice translation is "still clearly in the future"...on the same day Skype becomes available to do exactly that. :-)

Skype now allows real-time voice translation into another language

Another step in the loss of translation jobs:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/15/7393665/skype-translator-features

A.I. learns to identify images

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/deep-learning-renormalization/

Engineers have doubled the efficiency of a prominent solar cell technology

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-persistent-solar-cell-issue.html

Blu-Ray Disc Can be Used to Improve Solar Cell Performance

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/11/blu-ray-disc-can-be-used-to-improve-solar-cell-performance.html

U.S. Solar Jumps 41% With Home Systems Surpassing 300 Megawatts

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-09/u-dot-s-dot-solar-jumps-41-percent-with-home-systems-surpassing-300-megawatts

Why Solar Panels Are Going on the Country's Biggest Rooftops

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/10/why-solar-panels-are-going-on-the-biggest-roofs-in.aspx

Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet

http://www.livescience.com/49028-farthest-quantum-teleportation.html?cmpid=558756

Alternate energies causing gradual death spiral for utilities

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/12/08/report-energy-efficiency-could-cost-u-s-utilities-48-billion/

New drug can heal spinal cord injuries

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30254698

Australian researchers achieve 40% solar efficiency

http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/unsw-researchers-set-world-record-solar-energy-efficiency

Robotic-leg prosthetic allows amputees to walk normally

http://www.kurzweilai.net/robotic-leg-prosthetic-allows-amputees-to-walk-normally?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b7e5a5230c-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-b7e5a5230c-281903081

Stephen Hawking voices concerns about artificial intelligence

http://www.livescience.com/48972-stephen-hawking-artificial-intelligence-threat.html?cmpid=558754

Levitating magnetic gear system results in zero wear and friction

http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/magdrive_levitating

Solar Power’s Stunning Growth: U.S. Generation up 100 Percent This Year

http://breakingenergy.com/2014/12/01/solar-powers-stunning-growth-u-s-generation-up-100-percent-this-year/

Why battery technology hasn't improved much in decades

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/its-2014-why-is-my-battery-stuck-in-the-90s-104166984299.html

The Cheetah robot runs and maneuvers on batteries alone

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/mit-engineers-high-hopes-cheetah-robot-060838533.html

Will the Technological Singularity Arrive, and Will it Be a Good Thing or Bad?

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/11/artificial-intelligence-singularity-theory

The Uplifting Promise and Depressing Reality of Space Travel

This could be, if only we put more than a fraction of 1% of our budget into NASA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/30/wanderers-short-film_n_6244990.html?fb_action_ids=10204015258754626&fb_action_types=og.likes

But watching this video of what the upcoming Orion is supposed to do is depressing:

http://www.universetoday.com/116785/cool-nasa-animation-beautifully-details-every-step-of-orions-first-launch/

How painfully little has changed in 50 years! It's like watching a sad remake of a classic.

Tesla's $5 billion gigafactory to power more than just cars

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/11/21/dont-overlook-the-other-reason-for-tesla-motors-in.aspx

Solar Panels that glue on to roofs could almost eliminate installation costs

http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/11/solar-panels-that-glue-on-to-roofs.html

Batteries Could Capture Low-Grade Waste Heat

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/batteries-could-capture-low-grade-waste-heat/

Using wind power to make hydrogen for "free" during excess production

http://green.autoblog.com/2014/11/14/bibendum-2014-itm-power-make-free-hydrogen/

Solar to reachy grid parity in two years

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/coming-solar-power-boom-charts-tell-story-grid-143433439.html

Twisted-light waves transmitted in air over a 3-kilometer path

http://www.kurzweilai.net/twisted-light-waves-transmitted-in-air-over-a-3-kilometer-path?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2547c5ecc1-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-2547c5ecc1-281903081

"The light can be theoretically twisted with an infinite number of turns, with each configuration acting as a single communication channel ... a number of experiments using twisted light over fiber-optic links, some showing that twisted-light can be used to transmit 2.5 terabits of data per second."

A battery made up of billions of nanoscale batteries

http://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/billion-holes-can-make-battery

The global market for residential solar energy storage is expected to grow tenfold over the next five years

http://news.investors.com/technology/111214-726121-solarcity-vivint-solar-to-capitalize-on-battery-trend.htm

Magnesium To Replace Lithium-ion Batteries Soon

This sounds like a major game-changer:

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/business/magnesium-to-replace-lithium-ion-batteries-soon.html/?a=viewall

"up to 12 times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery and its charge-discharge efficiency is five times greater"

Fossil fuels with $550 billion subsidies hurt renewables

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/11/12/fossil-fuels-with-550-billion-subsidies-hurt-renewables/

China making a big push for solar power

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-hunger-clean-energy-leave-162034895.html

Google teaching robots martial arts

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/11/7199179/watch-googles-robot-perform-that-scene-from-the-karate-kid

The Tricky Transition From Fossil Fuel

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/earth/denmark-aims-for-100-percent-renewable-energy.html?_r=0

Google's advanced technology research

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article48112.html

Novel process could let consumers 3D-print metal parts for the first time

http://www.kurzweilai.net/novel-process-could-let-consumers-3d-print-metal-parts-for-the-first-time?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3183e33762-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-3183e33762-281903081

Dual-purpose film for energy storage, hydrogen catalysis: Chemists gain edge in next-gen energy

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-dual-purpose-energy-storage-hydrogen-catalysis.html

Nanomotor Lithography Used to Develop Nanoscale Machines

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1591

"the team developed nanorobots, or nanomotors, that are chemically-powered, self-propelled and magnetically controlled"

Darpa Circuit Achieves Speeds Of 1 Trillion Cycles Per Second, Earns Guinness World Record

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/10/28.aspx

Grid Parity to Reach 36 States in 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-29/while-you-were-getting-worked-up-over-oil-prices-this-just-happened-to-solar.html

So it it fair to say that 2016 is the tipping point?

Solar Prices Still Falling Fast, Study Finds

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/solar-prices-still-falling-fast-study-finds/

GM doubles down on the Chevy Volt

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/general-motors-doubles-down-chevy-040100807.html

Are We Witnessing The End Of The Oil Era

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gartman-were-witnessing-end-oil-221420996.html

How Vermont's largest city went 100 percent renewable electricity

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2014/1027/How-Vermont-s-largest-city-went-100-percent-renewable-electricity

Big utilities pushing into booming home solar market

http://news.yahoo.com/big-utilities-pushing-booming-home-solar-market-112015170--finance.html

Solar energy prices see double-digit declines in 2013, trend expected to continue

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-solar-energy-prices-double-digit-declines.html#jCp

Lowly DSL poised for gigabit speed boost

http://www.cnet.com/news/lowly-dsl-broadband-poised-for-gigabit-speed-boost/

Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin

Sounds great, but...

http://www.universetoday.com/115411/fusion-energy-always-50-years-away-now-just-5-according-to-lockheed-martin/

Brighter, New Energy-Saving Flat Panel Lights Based on Carbon Nanotubes

http://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/beyond-leds-flat-panel-lights-using-carbon-nanotubes

"Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes with very low power consumption of around 0.1 Watt for every hour's operation -- about a hundred times lower than that of an LED."

Why Hawaii is at the forefront of American solar adoption

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/19/solar-news-watch-hawaiis-solar-dilemma-it-could-be.aspx

Why Solar Panels Are More Important Than Ever

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/18/why-solar-panels-are-more-important-than-ever.aspx

Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking, Study Says

One good way to not lose a few years from your lifespan:

http://time.com/3513875/soda-may-age-you-as-much-as-smoking/?xid=newsletter-brief

New Electric Drive System Saves Space

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-space-weight-electric-cars.html

Peak Oil Demand is Almost Here, Already is for the Developed World

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/16/peak-oil-is-coming-and-why-you-should-love-it.aspx