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Japanese researchers launched the world's first talking robot into space Sunday aboard a supply mission headed toward the International Space Station (ISS). Called Kirobo, the machine will offer an opportunity for scientists to perform experiments on social interaction with robots as a way to reduce stress in confined living space, according to those behind the project. "I hope that through this project, humans and robots will be able to live together through communication with one another," Tomotaka Takahashi, a research professor with Tokyo University and one of the participants in the project, told the Wall Street Journal. Takahashi explained that while the Japanese are unique in their affinity with robots -- likely the result of growing up with manga stories about them -- he hopes that Kirobo's time in space will help widen that feeling of possible kinship to other nations.

Now, a Californian-based start-up may have the answer, with a breakthrough in a new type of memory chip known as Resistive RAM (ReRAM or RRAM for short). Capable of of storing a terabyte of data (equivalent to 250 high-definition movies) on a chip the size of a postage stamp, and using 20 times less energy than current flash memory chips, ReRAM could offer next-gen smartphones with terabytes of onboard data that go weeks without a charge. The company is called Crossbar, and though they're not the only manufacturers working ReRAM memory (Pansonic and HP are amongst their competitors), they have announced that their models have already been succesfully manufacturered, meaning that commercialization is hopefully not too many years off. ReRAM is a new type of non-volatile memory (meaning it stores data even when it’s not being powered) that is twenty times faster than the fastest current flash memory. Crossbars says that it can write data to its chips at 140 megabytes a second,...

A team of scientists have devised a new method of inserting foreign DNA into cells that, they say, is far more gentle and precise than any that have come before it. Described in the journal Bio-medical Optics Express , the technique includes poking holes on the surface of a cell using a high-powered "femtosecond" laser and retrieving a piece of DNA with "optical tweezers" like a high-tech version of the game Operation. The process, the researchers say, is an improvement on past methods for a number of reasons, including efficiency (many current techniques are clumsy and often require many tries) as well as its control at the single-cell level.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 1 Corinthians 4:7

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.