click on the picture for a larger view of how Hong Kong will connect to China with high speed rail The Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railways began operation this year, and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway is also expected to be operational by the end of 2011. The high-speed rail from Shanghai to Hong Kong is …
the Bigelow BA-2100 models Hobbyspace reports that Bigelow Aerospace presented a model of the BA-2100 (2100 cubic meter volume space hotel module.) The current BA-330 has 330 cubic meters of volume) Bigelow, in addition to showing off his modules, revealed for the first time the six “sovereign clients” that have signed memoranda of understanding to …
Web 2.0 summit has started creating a points of control map of the internet From top to bottom, and in reasonably defensible order: We start with the Clouds of Infrastructure, securing the top of the map. We then cross the Oceans of OS and UI to The Platform Plateau, where you’ll find those aforementioned hardware …
In Situ Bioprinting of the Skin for Burns was presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress Researchers from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Weixin Zhao, Tamer Aboushwareb, Dennis Dice BS, Anthony Atala, James J Yoo) showed off the results of a unique experiment involving a printer that uses living cells as …
1. A October 28 agreement India’s PFC (Power Finance Corporation) intends to provide a combination of debt financing, equity financing and consultancy services to NPCIL, India’s sole nuclear operator. This should fund the expansion of India’s nuclear fleet of 19 reactors with a generating capacity of 4560 MWe to reach 9580 MWe by 2017. The …
SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) reserachers reviewed the results of the serendipitous late-life lifespan study of rapamycin (sirolimus/Rapamune®), an inhibitor of the mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, through the NIA’s Interventions Testing Program (ITP), “a multi-institutional study investigating treatments with the potential to extend lifespan and delay disease and dysfunction in mice.” This …
First Phil Plait assumes Gliese 581g is the closest potentially habitable planet to us. Given that assumption, he estimates the number of potentially habitable planets in the entire Milky Way. There are 20 trillion cubic light years of volume in the Milky Way. Divide the volume of the galaxy by the density of stars with …
Acer plans to launch “multiple” tablet devices at an event in New York on Nov. 23, with different OSes and multiple form factors, the CEO Gianfranco Lanci said Friday. Acer is the number 2 computer maker behind HP and ahead of Dell. Acer CEO Lanci is optimistic about tablet sales and forecast a market of …
High-speed rail projects in 23 U.S. states will share $2.4 billion in federal aid, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today, adding to $8 billion in stimulus money already awarded for passenger train service. South Korea had an assessment of high speed rail capabilities for countries in the world. Korea, China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and …
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 14.6% in the third quarter of 2010 (3Q10), the fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, driven in part by the fast-growing converged mobile device category. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 340.5 million units in 3Q10 compared to 297.1 million units …
Illustration of the experiment. Right panel shows an illustration of the entire experiment, broken into 5 blocks. The experiment had 3 repetitions of the control presentation (blocks 1, 3, 5), and 2 fading blocks (2 and 4). Real feedback in block 2 was given to two out of the four units, while the remaining two …