Michael Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest and is dead. Megamix of Michael Jackson’s Greatest Hits. 25th Anniversary of Thriller Teaser Video Farrah Fawcett’s death from cancer was not unexpected. There was some speculation that Steve Jobs used his wealth to jump the queue for his liver transplant. Someone with money can get on more transplant …
The five most costly medical conditions in 2002 for the USA. The Center for Disease Control looks at the top chronic diseases by deaths caused. – The medical care costs of people with chronic diseases account for more than 75% of the nation’s $2 trillion medical care costs. – Chronic diseases account for one-third of …
The enzyme WWP-1, shown in green, is a key player in the signaling cascade that links dietary restriction to longevity in roundworms. Sensory neurons are shown in red. Image: Courtesy of Dr. Andrea C. Carrano, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a pivotal role for two …
BBC News coverage: Scientists tell Nature magazine that the liquid water may reside in caverns just below the surface of the moon. If confirmed, it is a stunning result. It means the Saturnian satellite may be one of the most promising places in the Solar System to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. New interpretation …
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predictions from February 2009 on Iran. The above is a 20 minute TED presentation. – Prediction based on self-interest – Need to look at all of the influencers on the key decision maker – 5 people is 120 interactions, 10 people is 3.6 million interactions – CIA notes that the computer …
1. South African nuclear technology firm PBMR plans to have its first 80 megawatt (MW) power and heat processing plant based on its pebble-fuel technology by 2018. Previously there was a target date of 2014, but the project was cancelled for a few months, but appears to be back on track. The global economic slowdown …
A recent study has shown that, on the nanoscale, Maxwell’s demon might be able to do its work with much less energy than previously thought due to tiny thermal fluctuations that occur in small systems. Dillenschneider and Lutz have accounted for the impact of tiny thermal fluctuations on memory erasure in their nanoparticle-based memory system. …
1. Numonyx has silicon of the 45-nm 1-Gbit memory internally and the chip is in “debug” at present. “The cells are doing what we expect them to do,” he said. The memory is set to be sampled to wireless OEMs in a progressive program during the second-half of 2009, and go into production by the …
Key milestones have been passed after three years of planning, machining, wiring and welding, in the progress of the Advanced Graphite Capsule project. This six-phase project will test over 2,000 different samples of graphite in INL’s Advanced Test Reactor facility over a roughly 10-year period that will last until 2020. Today, nuclear experts envision two …
Four different kinds of double lithography. Click on the image for larger view Double patterning is a class of technologies developed for photolithography to enhance the feature density of computer chips. The resolution of a photoresist pattern begins to blur at around 45 nm half-pitch. Double patterning is the only lithography technique to be used …
Professor Klaus Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University have developed a sorbent that is “close to the ideal,” in that it uses a relatively small amount of energy to release the CO2 and is not prohibitively expensive. “By the time we make liquid CO2 we …