Barrons (one of the leading financial newspapers) has an article about the Bakken Oil in North Dakota I have had five articles on Bakken oil starting with this one This blog gave its readers a one month head start on Bakken oil. Barrons Kopin Tan says: The Bakken is no longer an undiscovered gem: Exploration …
Carnival of space 42 is up at chris lintott’s site I provided my update on what SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace are doing and planning Centauri Dreams talks about gravitational lensing a mission to setup a telescope that would use the sun as a gravitational lens The Planetary Society has some pretty pictures of Saturn’s moons …
Nanodynamics pulls another stock listing This time Nanodynamics pulled there stock from listing on the Dubai exchange. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …
Carbon nanotubes have a typical thermal conductivity range of 3000 to 3500 W/m•K [watts per meter per degree Kelvin]. Diamond, another form of carbon, comes in between 1000 and 2200 W/m•K. The single-layer graphene studied by the UCR researchers displayed a thermal conductivity as high as 5300 W/m•K near room temperature. The thermal conductivity of …
SpaceX dragon in cargo configuration. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the second Falcon 9 / Dragon demonstration under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) project. During this second and much longer demonstration, the uncrewed Dragon spacecraft will approach within 10 kilometers of the ISS and hold its …
Laser light can be used to detect molecules in breath that may be markers for diseases like asthma or cancer. Although it has yet to be tested in clinical trials, a new apparatus may allow doctors to screen people for certain diseases simply by sampling their breath, according to JILA, a joint institute of the …
(Hat tip Bad Astronomy), About 1% of the stars in the Milky Way could have earth like planets (smaller rock like planets) Another study shows the Milky Way is twice as big as previously thought. So instead 100 billion stars there could be 200 billion and of those 1% or two billion could have earth …
McKinsey Global has an energy productivity plan (36 pages) An additional $170 billion per year invested in energy efficiency can provide 17% average internal rate of return and cut projected energy demand growth by half by 2020. We could use existing technologies to pay for themselves. It would provide up to half of the global …
Left is previous work where DNA was wrapped around carbon nanotubes. Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes–strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity–into arrays with DNA molecules. Once the nanotube array is meticulously constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, leaving an orderly grid of nanotubes. The nanotube grid, …
The National Academy of Engineering has selected the grand challenges of Engineering Throughout history engineering has driven the advance of civilization and completing any of these challenges will be game changers to the course of civilization. The challenges are in four broad categories sustainability, health, vulnerability and joy of living. MIT Technology Review magazine has …
Over the last decade, Seth Lloyd and his colleagues and postdocs at MIT have been looking at how quantum mechanics can make things better. What Lloyd refers to as the “funky effects” of quantum theory, such as squeezing and entanglement, could ultimately be harnessed to make measurements of time and distance more precise and computers …