The US State Department gives a view of the oil situation in Iraq A better oil situation means more chances for oil prices to improve and better chances for the US to spend less money and resources there at some point which might be earlier than otherwise. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader …
Nader Engheta’s, professor at university of Pennsylvania, work provides “a vision, consisting of building blocks, along with instructions on how to arrange them together to enable transplanting well-known passive inductor-capacitor-resistor [LCR] electrical networks to the optical domain. This includes the direct optical realization of filters, antennas, power-distribution networks, microwave transmission-line metamaterials and many more. (H/T …
. In an advance online edition of Nature Medicine, the scientists explain how the protein, FOX03a, shields against viral attacks and how the discovery will help in the development of a HIV vaccine. This research could also advance therapies for other viral diseases. Given their perfect resistance to HIV infection, elite controllers represent the ideal …
Craig Venter, billionaire who previously created a company that was a a key part of sequencing the human genome, claims that he think he will have fourth-generation fuels in about 18 months, with CO2 as the fuel stock. We have modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry and becoming a major source of energy,” …
The story about why the Nanodynamic Dubai IPO failed/was withdrawn. According to a Nanoclarity investigation it was Global Crown Capital Ltd. (the lead underwriter) who did not provide all the money required for the IPO. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His …
IBM is producing PS3 cell processors using 45 nm processes on 300mm wafers The die size of the Cell processor at 90 nm features was 221 mm**2. Therefore, the 45nm die size should be about 55-70 mm**2. So a perfect wafer would have about 300 cell processors at 90nm and would have 1000 cell processors …
NEC has printed carbon nanotube transistors on plastic with an electron mobility of 100 cm**2/Vs More information is here I had previously covered work at many other labs working on improving printable electronic speed using many different methods Fijitsu has used a forest of carbon nanotubes (MCNT) to grow graphene at low (510 degrees Celsius …
The Chinese yuan is 7.10 to the US dollar The Chinese yuan is 10.85 to the Euro I have previously predicted that China’s economy will be larger than the US economy on an exchange rate basis before 2020. and think it is most likely to happen in the 2017-2019 range The German economy ended 2007 …