China has formally begun its manned space station program, aiming to complete construction of a “relatively large” manned space laboratory around 2020, said a spokesman for the national manned space program. China was aiming to develop and launch the first part of a space laboratory before 2016, focusing on breakthroughs in living conditions for astronauts …
1. The Philippine Energy Plan 2007-2014 indicates room for the existing Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as well as four more nuclear plants, the earliest to be commissioned by 2015. Candidate sites are also opening up across the country: in Palawan, Cagayan, Cavite, Negros Oriental, Zamboanga del Norte, Bataan, Negros Occidental, Quezon, Batangas, and Sarangani, the …
15 percent of healthy Amish octogenarians have “haplogroup X,” a genetic pattern within the mitochondria, which are the regions of cells that generate energy and help guard against deterioration. Haplogroup X is generally found in only 2 percent of Europeans, from whom the Amish descended. In the University of Miami study, only 3 percent of …
The Halo Intersceptor is a multi functional vehicle, based around one car that can couple with several vehicle attachments to form the basis of private air, sea and land travel The car is the case unit and it docks to attachments to become boats, planes or helicopters. The Halo Inersceptor site The car mode – …
The Speculist has a survey of the most significant technological development of the next 20 years. Provide your own predictions and reasoning in the comments below this article. I pick energy breakthrough. Specifically nuclear fusion of some kind for commercial energy. There are a few leading candidates. Lawrenceville Plasma physics, EMC2 (IEC) fusion, general fusion, …
By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs. Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’ stumps became slightly less mature versions of the cells they’d been before. The findings …
Fox news, CNN and NBC are all projecting that the Republicans will win a majority in the House of representatives. Fox news is projecting a 60 seat gain for the Republicans. It is likely that the Democrats will keep the majority in the Senate. However, many of the Democrats ran against Obama to retain their …
The myostatin gene has three exons; Prof Dickson suggested that by making the cell skip over the second exon of the myostatin gene, it would no longer be able to read the instructions and so no myostatin protein would be produced. If no myostatin protein is produced, the muscles should be able to grow larger. …
The 100-Year Starship study is trying to create a vision that makes business sense yet will motivate generations to development and create manned interstellar spaceflight. Develop a business case and an enduring organization. The 100-Year Starship study will examine the business model needed to develop and mature a technology portfolio enabling long-distance manned spaceflight a …
(c) 2010 Tad Hogg and Robert A. Freitas Jr. All Rights Reserved Robert Freitas has a new nanomedicine paper that he has written with Tad Hogg. This is the first detailed theoretical study of the actual power limitations of oxygen/glucose-powered in vivo medical nanorobots in human tissue capillaries. We look at nanorobots that are positioned …
World coal use by country in 2007 China plans to limit annual coal production to between 3.6 and 3.8 billion tonnes in its next five-year development plan, compared with 3.2 billion tonnes mined in 2009 The 2536 million tons in the chart above was for 2007. The 2010 number is 3200 million tons. China’s 2009 …