World Nuclear News – A portable demonstration plant has achieved “exceptional results” with uranium recoveries of over 90% during steady state operations from phosphate. The Demonstration Plant operation is a joint effort between Cameco and Uranium Equities (UEQ) staff with Cameco lending significant resources to the project. Cameco invested about $16.5 million in this project. …
Technology Review – Your eyes work with your brain to teach you about the world. You learn to recognize objects, people, and places, and you learn to imagine new things. A startup called Vicarious thinks computers could learn to do likewise, and it’s building software that tries to process visual information the way the brain …
CNBC – Google’s Venture fund is planning to invest $1 billion in a wide-range of start-ups over the next five years. While Google Ventures, which is currently invested in over 100 companies, is invested in some social media companies, William Maris, Google Ventures managing partner, said the fund seeks entrepreneurs that “have a healthy disregard …
George Church TEDMED Ocober 2010 George Church – 2012 GET Conference We need to sequence everyone’s genome many times, monitor the genome and the epigenome and the microbial components. TEDx Cambridge 2012 Talk George Church considers recent advances in genomics and personalized medicine and asks: as we seek to eliminate disorders like schizophrenia and dyslexia, …
A Tour of Spacex Offices from October, 2011 Spacex Dragon Mission Highlights Spacex Merlin 1D Test Firing Super Draco Test Firing If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …
Globalfoundries, which builds chips designed by other companies, was formed from former operations of Advanced Micro Devices AMD and Chartered Semiconductor and is bankrolled by investors in Abu Dhabi. It recently completed construction of a large factory near Albany, N.Y. Intel plans to introduce sample chips with its next production process–also based on FinFETs and …
On Friday, September 21, 2012 SpaceX’s Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle (VTVL) took its first test flight hop from the company’s rocket testing facility in McGregor, Texas. The short hop of approximately 6 feet is the first major milestone for Grasshopper, and a critical step toward a reusable first stage for SpaceX’s proven …
University of Cambridge – Carbon Nanotube hologram pixels could lead to super high resolution 3d holograms with a wide field of view. A breakthrough in the use of carbon nanotubes as optical projectors has enabled scientists to generate holograms using the smallest ever pixels. Scientists have generated holograms from carbon nanotubes for the first time, …
Much like the checkout clerk uses a machine that scans the barcodes on packages to identify what customers bought at the store, scientists use powerful microscopes and their own kinds of barcodes to help them identify various parts of a cell, or types of molecules at a disease site. But their barcodes only come in …
Linksthroughspace has the Carnival of Space 268 Nextbigfuture – A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) mission architecture, which blends a hypervelocity kinetic impactor with a subsurface nuclear explosion for optimal fragmentation and dispersion of hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), has been developed through a 2011 NIAC Phase I study. Despite the uncertainties inherent to the nuclear …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 123 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome ANS Nuclear Cafe reviews the details of what Japan’s nuclear policy currently is. The energy policy announced by Maehar’s boss, Prime Minister Noda, calls for reactors to operate to the end of their 40 year life, but it offers a loophole to operate them …