CyborgLife news of the week

The Baltimore Sun reviews progress toward understanding how animals hubernate, and how humans might be able to use the knowledge to put ourselves into suspended animation.

Another gene and protein pathway, PHA-4, has been found to mediate the link between calorie restriction and longevity, joining the previous findings on the sirtuins. This research will hopefully lead to pharmaceuticals that extend longevity.

A team at University of Wisconsin have found that sending a magentic signal through the brain can send people into deep sleep.
DARPA announces that within three years they will have goggles for soldiers which monitor EEGs and alert them to threats that they have not yet noticed as far as 10,000 meters away.

Researchers at the University of Washington, profiled in the Seattle Times, demonstrate robots that respond to thoughts picked up from the controller’s brain through EEG sensors.