Fujitsu 10 Petaflops by early 2011 Fujitsu is building the supercomputer for Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, said Takumi Maruyama, head of Fujitsu’s processor development department, on the sidelines of the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday. The system will be based on Fujitsu’s upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor, …
1. The BBC reports that faulty mitochondria were successfully replaced in the eggs of monkeys and the eggs were fertilized and developed into healthy monkeys. Faulty mitochondria effects about 15,000 babies every year and prevents some tens of thousands of women from having children. The US work, featured in the journal Nature, raises hopes of …
More than 2,000 dams near population centers are in need of repair, according to statistics released this month by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials. [High hazard potential repairs are needed.] The National Inventory of Dams (NID), which is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), shows that the number of dams …
Macleans, canadian newsmagazine, has coverage on “the quest to build a dinosaur” Larsson is experimenting with chicken embryos to create the creature Horner describes: a “chickenosaurus,” they call it. If he succeeds, Larsson will have made an animal with clawed hands, teeth, a long, dinosaurian tail and ancestral plumage, one that shares characteristics with “the …
From 2007, seapower digital has more information on the Underwater Express program. Underwater express is a DARPA project looking to create a 100 knot (110 mph) submarine that is 8 feet in diameter and 60 feet long and would not have a surface signature. It would replace a 40 knot speedboat for special forces. It …
Above are the deaths and hospitalizations that have already occured in the USA. A normal US flu season kills 36,000 people each year. Flu season in the USA is from September to about March the next year. Up to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 …
MIT Technology Review reports that friendly gut microbes that have been engineered to make a specific protein can help regulate blood sugar in diabetic mice, according to preliminary research presented this week at the American Chemical Society conference in Washington, D.C. While the research is still in the very early stages, the microbes, which could …
If DNA-tagged molecular shapes (whether made of DNA with Rothemund staples, or Schafmeister polymers, or whatever) were allowed to self-assemble to a DNA framework, and then zinc or light (or whatever reagent) were added, then the shapes could bond quite strongly into a single large strong precise molecule. The molecule could be highly crosslinked, and …
Gregory Benford will be presenting an update of Genescient’s work at the Singularity Summit in New York on October 3rd and 4th, 2009. Our laboratory animals live for 5 times the normal lifespan. They have health and vigor. We use their genetic properties to find what works similarly in humans. Genescient applies 21st century genomic …
Here is the Henry Markram interview by Sander Olson. [Note: there 14 questions and answers and a copyright by Dr. Markram at the end] Dr. Markram is the Project Director of the Blue Brain project, and Dr. Markram recently predicted that the Blue Brain project could have a human level brain simulation within a decade. …
A new study from the University of Missouri may shed light on how to increase the level and quality of activity in the elderly. In the study, published in this week’s edition of Public Library of Science – One, MU researchers found that gene therapy with a proven “longevity” gene energized mice during exercise, and …