Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. ProjectIcarus is the attempt to re-examine the Project Daedalus starship study of the 1970s in light of technological developments in the intervening years The Icarus team is looking at Uranus for mining helium-3. Getting processed helium-3 to orbit presenting perhaps the biggest technical hurdle. Double-walled …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Facebook and Skype are in talks for tight integration and business partnership. Published reports say they’re expected to combine their services, allowing Facebook members to sign in to Skype using their Facebook Connect accounts. Users could then send text messages, voice chat and video chat …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Russian company Orbital Technologies has announced its plans to launch in 2016 a commercial space station that will be used as a space hotel. It will be able to hold seven people. Bigelow Aerospace is planing to deploy their inflatable commercial space station in 2014. * …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Namibia’s Uranium production improved by 9.9 percent during the second quarter of 2010 compared to the preceding quarter. Similarly, year-on-year, it rose by 17.7 percent. The demand for uranium continued to be high, emanated mostly from China, India and South Korea, coupled with planned nuclear …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software India’s GDP is expected to grow by 8.5% this year, and could grow even faster. Chetan Ahya and Tanvee Gupta of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, predict that India’s growth will start to outpace China’s within three to five years. China will rumble along at 8% …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Polyyne is believed to be 40 times harder than diamond. Eric Drexler discusses the synthesis of the longest polyyne chain to date, a chain of 44 carbon atoms. Peierls instability is the reason that polyyne is so strong and the reason that it is tough to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A revolutionary new spherical nanostructure, fully derived from very simple organic elements, yet strong as steel, has been developed and characterized at the laboratories of Ehud Gazit of Tel Aviv University and Itay Rousso of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Lightweight and exceptionally strong, easy and …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A newfound planet, known as Gliese 581g, is estimated to be 3.1 to 4.3 times as massive as Earth, and makes a complete circuit around its sun in just under 37 days. If the planet has a rocky composition like Earth’s, it would be 1.2 to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Tomorrow, after four years of effort, Deal-Blackwell and Hyperion Power Generation co-founders will sit down with NRC officials in Washington to begin discussing how the Commission might begin regulatory review for the nation’s first small modular reactor. This month the Hyperion Power Generation signed a memorandum …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Starry Critters is hosting the Carnival of Space 171 This site provided the interview of John Hunter of Quicklaunch.Quicklaunch is hoping to create a method for launching unmanned payloads into orbit for $500 per pound. The Quicklaunch approach shoots payloads into orbit using a large hydrogen …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Tufts scientists have found a way to regenerate injured spinal cord and muscle by using small molecule drugs to trigger an influx of sodium ions into injured cells. The approach breaks new ground in the field of biomedicine because it requires no gene therapy; can …