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The New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina is dedicated to recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship of the original Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is much more than a library. It contains: A Library that can hold millions of books.An Internet ArchiveSix specialized libraries for Arts, multimedia and audio-visual materials, the visually impaired, children, the young, microforms, and rare books and special collections

HOW do people acquire high levels of skill in science, business, music, the arts and sports? This has long been a topic of intense debate in psychology. Research has shown that intellectual ability matters for success in many fields - and not just up to a point.

Open Source Biological Art, DIY Biology Generic lab equipment

Ai Research is a leading artificial intelligence research project. At Ai, we're creating a new form of life. Our expanding web site is an essential part of the emerging global discussion about artificial intelligence. On this website, we showcase the state of the art in pattern-matching conversational machines, demonstrated by Alan, and in reinforcement learning algorithms, demonstrated by HAL. Use our forums, original papers, online labs, demos and links to explore what's happening both at Ai (the project) and in AI (the field).

" Dieses intelligente Rückstoßprinzip stand Forschern des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA beim Entwickeln eines Unterwasserantriebs Pate. »Kraken nutzen diese Art der Fortbewegung hauptsächlich für eine plötzliche schnelle Flucht. Das System ist zwar einfach, aber effektiv. Die Oktopoden können damit über kurze Strecken enorm beschleunigen«, sagt Andreas Fischer, Ingenieur am IPA in Stuttgart. »Wir haben das Antriebsprinzip in unsere Unterwasseraktoren integriert: Vier elastische Kunststoffbälle mit einem mechanischen Innenleben pumpen Wasser und sorgen so für Vortrieb.«"

"Minerva combines the best of a liberal arts and sciences education with cutting-edge technology and the latest research on how people learn for improved student outcomes. This unparalleled academic experience is designed to prepare students to be future leaders and innovators across all disciplines."

"Maschinen, Mechanik, Produktivität: Das Zahnrad ist geradezu ein Symbol für die Technik des Menschen. Das Prinzip der verzahnten Kraftkopplung begannen Menschen bereits in der Antike für ihre Zwecke zu nutzen. Doch offenbar existierte die Getriebetechnik damals schon lange und zwar in der Form eines Natur-Patents: Die Käferzikade besitzt nämlich eine Art Zahnradsystem, um die Bewegung ihrer Hinterbeine beim Springen zu synchronisieren"

BioArt, Design, science & arts, bemalte Seidenschals, Aquarell

"Medical Museion is hosting an open biology (or "biohacking") laboratory and a series of hands-on public events from January-March 2013. The events are part of the European network, Studiolab, that provides a platform for creative projects that bridge divides between science, art and design"

53 million records | 21,915 titles | 5,000 publishers Scopus.com , the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers an overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed.

"Hackteria is a webplatform and collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty, after collaboration during the Interactivos?09 Garage Science at Medialab Prado in Madrid"

Elisabeth Daynès’ hyper realistic reconstructions, based on fossil hominids, make a unique contribution to paleoanthropology and art, by retracing the path of human evolution and origins

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum,  is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.     Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History  http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/    Visualization Software:  Uniview by SCISS    Director: Carter Emmart  Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer  Producer: Michael Hoffman  Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler  Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen  Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott    Music: Suke Cerulo    For more information visit http://www.amnh.org

The supply of secure, clean, sustainable energy is arguably the most important scientific and technical challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Rising living standards of a growing world population will cause global energy consumption to double by mid-century and triple by the end of the century. Even in light of unprecedented conservation, the additional energy needed is simply not attainable from long discussed sources these include nuclear, biomass, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric. The global appetite for energy is simply too much. Petroleum-based fuel sources (i.e., coal, oil and gas) could be increased. However, deleterious consequences resulting from external drivers of economy, the environment, and global security dictate that this energy need be met by renewable and sustainable sources. The dramatic increase in global energy need is driven by 3 billion low-energy users in the non-legacy world and by 3 billion people yet to inhabit the planet over the next half century. The capture and storage of solar energy at the individual level personalized solar energy drives inextricably towards the heart of this energy challenge by addressing the triumvirate of secure, carbon neutral and plentiful energy. This talk will place the scale of the global energy issue in perspective and then discuss how personalized energy (especially for the non-legacy world) can provide a path to a solution to the global energy challenge. Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Solar Revolutions Project and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT. His group pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry. He has recently accomplished a solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis outside of the leaf. This discovery sets the stage for a storage mechanism for the large scale, distributed, deployment of solar energy. He has b

"„Fatburner"-Schlüssel Konkret haben die Forscher ein humanes Zellmodell für ihre Experimente herangezogen und sich im menschlichen Erbgut auf die Untersuchung von MikroRNAs fokussiert - kleinen RNA-Schnipseln, die bis vor kurzem noch als „genetischer Schrott" bezeichnet wurden. Dabei entdeckte das Team MikroRNAs mit besonderer Rolle in der Fettzellentwicklung: die „MikroRNA-26-Familie". Marcel Scheideler: „Diese spezielle MikroRNA-Familie regt die Bildung des Proteins UCP1 an, das eine Art Kurzschluss in den Mitochondrien erzeugt und somit als Schalter für die Energieverbrennung in den Fettzellen fungiert. Dadurch wird eine gesteigerte Energieverbrennung erst möglich." Die MikroRNA-26-Familie ist also in der Lage, die Fettzelle von der Energiespeicherung auf die Energieverbrennung umzupolen. Für eine therapeutische Anwendung wurde diese Entdeckung zum Patent angemeldet"

"The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications. From drivers to state-of-the-art algorithms, and with powerful developer tools, ROS has what you need for your next robotics project. And it's all open source."

"Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in   the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts   and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and   visualize research."

"Scene recognition is one of the hallmark tasks of computer vision, allowing defining a context for object recognition. Here we introduce a new scene-centric database called Places, with 205 scene categories and 2.5 millions of images with a category label. Using convolutional neural network (CNN), we learn deep scene features for scene recognition tasks, and establish new state-of-the-art performances on scene-centric benchmarks. Here we provide the Places Database and the trained CNNs for academic research and education purposes."

"The Decentralized Library of Alexandria is an open-source standard in active development to allow users to publish and distribute original content themselves, from music to videos to feature films, 3d printable inventions, recipes, books and just about anything else. It is a unified, ever-growing library of art, history and culture which users interact with through a variety of front end apps. A native browser is in continuing development, but the Alexandria standard can also be used by other open source developers and even current industry incumbents like YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes and Netflix to offer a far superior value proposition to content providers and a better experience for users than currently available."