Promising obesity drug, twice as effective as current drugs

According to trials, a new obesity drug, Tesofensine, which may be launched on the world market in a few years, can produce weight loss twice that of currently approved obesity drugs. The drug works by suppressing hunger, leading to an energy deficit which burns off excess body fat. This randomised, placebo-controlled phase II study was …

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Plasmonic lithography : potential for 5 nanometer features

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could enable commercial speed 5 nanometer optical lithography. It can also mean higher density hard drives and optical disks with 20 times the density of Blu-ray. The 5 page research paper: Flying plasmonic lens in the near field …

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Venture Beat Investigates Blacklight Power

Venture beat has coverage of the Rowan University study of Blacklight Power -Rowan University Prof Jansson gets supplied the Raney nickel from Blacklight Power, which it in turn obtains from an industrial supplier. -Mills said it doped with a very small amount of another common material, sodium hydroxide, in a process that others could replicate.-Jansson …

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Nuclear power Roundup October 21, 2008

1. Italy will make 8-10 nuclear reactors starting in 2013. Correcting a 50 billion euro mistake of ending nuclear power in Italy. The long term aim, according to Scajola, is to ‘rebalance the power generation in Italy’. By 2030 the Italian government would like to see nuclear power taking a 25% share in generation, with …

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Ohio state has solar power breakthrough

Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in visible sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them 7 million times easier to capture. Note: there is other work for capturing the infrared spectrum of sunlight. Researchers and companies …

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