Progress toward real life super-soldiers

For three years ago U.S. Special Operations Command and DARPA announced they had started work on a super-soldier suit called TALOS (Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit) unlike anything in the history of warfare. It is engineered with full-body ballistics protection; integrated heating and cooling systems; embedded sensors, antennas, and computers; 3D audio (to indicate where …

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Muscle Development Protein could be used to fight muscle wasting diseases

Science News – Australian scientists have suggested that a protein called Grb10 plays a crucial role in increasing muscle mass during development By identifying a novel mechanism regulating muscle development, our work has revealed potential new strategies to increase muscle mass,” said lead author Dr Lowenna Holt of the Diabetes and Obesity Research Program at …

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Basic civilized housing at $300 per house

“The basic idea – low-cost, low-tech, incrementally self-improvable housing.” When Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar issued a challenge to the corporate world to help design highly scalable housing to replace the world’s slums, we didn’t know the response from the HBR.org community would be so immediate and passionate. Support, suggestions, and links to similar work …

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UCSF team develops “logic gates” to program bacteria as computers

A team of UCSF researchers has engineered E. coli with the key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic engineers to program cells to communicate and perform computations. The work builds into cells the same logic gates found in electronic computers and creates a method to create circuits by “rewiring” communications between cells. This system can …

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LG will Mass Produce 19 inch Flexible e-Paper and 9.7 inch Color E-paper by the end of 2010

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Korean elecronics manufacturer LG, who makes the screens for the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle, has revealed in SEC filings that they are continuing to break new ground with e-paper technology, moving forward with plans for both color and flexible models that will work with both …

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Myostatin Muscle Boosting and Other Frailty Reduction Methods Can More than Double Cancer Survival and Reduce Mortality Risk in the Aged by 5 Times

Researchers have created a molecule that blocks the activity of the muscle-limiting protein myostatin in mice. It can fully reverse the devastating muscle loss that often accompanies advanced cancer — and thereby increase the lifespan of animals with the disease. Instead of myostatin binding to its normal receptor and triggering muscle wastage, it is ‘mopped …

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Stanford Has a Process to Make Solar Power Production More Than Twice as Efficient to as High as 60% efficient

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Caption: A small PETE device made with cesium-coated gallium nitride glows while being tested inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber. The tests proved that the process simultaneously converted light and heat energy into electrical current.Credit: Photo courtesy of Nick Melosh, Stanford University Stanford engineers have figured out …

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Rapid design and manufacture of novel micro-devices

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The EU microbuilder project has developed a one-stop shop to support companies, especially SMEs, in the rapid design and manufacture of novel micro-devices for use in applications ranging from medical diagnosis to mobile phones. They have created a set of tools that should reduce the time …

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Northrop Grumman Makes Worlds Fastest Integrated Circuit at 670 Gigahertz

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Northrop Grumman Corporation has set a new electronics performance record with a Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) operating at 0.67 terahertz (THz), or 0.67 trillion cycles per second. (H/T Popular Science Developed at the company’s Simon Ramo Microelectronics Center under a contract with the Defense Advanced …

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Optical Legos: building nanoshell structures

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University’s light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials. Much as a child might use Lego blocks to build 3-D …

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