Buzz Aldrin continues to push for an Earth Mars Cycling vehicle, which Buzz believes can be in operation by 2019. Buzz Aldrin’s personal website [Wikipedia] A Mars cycler (or Earth-Mars cycler) is a special kind of spacecraft trajectory that encounters Earth and Mars on a regular basis. The term Mars cycler may also refer to …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) invites you to the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in the Washington DC area from March 1-3. The summit brings together all the nation’s key players in energy innovation: scientific researchers, VC investors, technology entrepreneurs, large corporations, and government officials The Program of …
Hydropower is available in almost every country of the world in at least one of its forms: river currents, tidal flows, ocean waves and ocean currents. * The world’s total gross theoretical river power capability is over 40,000 TWh/yr. * Estimated Global Tidal Power Potential is 3,700 GW. * The total energy generation potential of …
US Oil production is climbing back up after a long 40 year decline Net Imports in 2009 and the first month of 2010 are back to the levels of 1999-1999 and heading towards 1997 levels. Net Imports of oil kept increasing until 2005 and have been declining since that time. Field production including crude oil …
The Power of a Diagnostic Lab…on a Piece of Paper Developed by George Whitesides of Harvard in a 3 page powerpoint * The George Whitesides’ laboratory has developed diagnostic devices made from patterned paper * Patterns direct fluid into segregated areas where different analytes are detected simultaneously * Paper printed with polymer channels forms a …
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Freescale Semiconductor is introducing a new processor which will improve the performance and lower the cost of eReaders (like the Amazon Kindle) to $150 or less. It will also increase display resolution, enable color, increase battery life and enable faster page turning. Freescale Semiconductor is helping drive down the cost of next-generation eReaders with its …
Researchers from HZI vaccine department have discovered a small molecule c-di-IMP which leads to a strong immune response and it is significantly more effective than known adjuvants. Adjuvants boost the bodies immune response to vaccines. the new molecule appears to help with nasal sprays, which could allow prevention of infection and not just resistance. The …
Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole. NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although …
A one-atom-thick layer of a graphene and boron nitride hybrid is visible to the naked eye when deposited on a glass slide. Researchers are able to achieve fine control of the new material’s conductivity. Rice University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers …
This optical chip can convert light pulses into digital signals faster and more efficiently than existing technology. (Ryan Scott, UC Davis photo) A new device invented by engineers at UC Davis could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back again. The technology could be applied to ultrafast, high-capacity …