The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 267 is up at the Energy Reality Project. Neutron Bytes – Demand for small modular reactors may be significantly reduced by Supreme Court ruling on EPA coal plant emissions. On June 29th the US Supreme Court threw out EPA’s coal emissions regulations that if implemented would have forced many utilities …
Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions and enabling systems. They are a leader with FPGAs. The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device that can be programmed after manufacturing. Instead of being restricted to any predetermined hardware function, an FPGA allows you to program product features and functions, adapt to new …
A new method for developing stem cells enables the production of liver and pancreatic cells in “clinically relevant” quantities for the first time, paving the way for regenerative therapies. A new method for creating stem cells for the human liver and pancreas, which could enable both cell types to be grown in sufficient quantities for …
MIT researchers think they know why when you double a city’s population that its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. Not only does total productivity increase with increased population, but so does per-capita productivity. Increases in urban population density give residents greater opportunity for face-to-face interaction. Nature Communication – Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie …
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale – meaning the films are only one atom thick. The technique can be used to create these thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are two inches wide, or larger. …