Jonathan Rothberg founded two genetic-sequencing companies and sold them for hundreds of millions of dollars. He helped to sequence the genomes of a Neanderthal man and James Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s double helix. Now, entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg has set his sights on another milestone: finding the genes that underlie mathematical genius. Rothberg and physicist Max …
Mars One will launch its first unmanned mission to the Red Planet in 2016, its co-founder says. The firm plans to establish a human settlement on Martian soil in 2023, by offering passengers a one-way ticket. Mars One will send “a small craft that will demonstrate the technologies we need for our human colony” and …
Comcast has given thousands of dollars to political groups to defeat the mayor of Seattle. McGinn’s major opponent, state Sen. Ed Murray (D-Seattle), has committed to honoring the city’s existing contracts for a 14-neighborhood pilot project, but has shown limited enthusiasm about McGinn’s plans to expand the network in the future. So the election could …
CNET was first to report ties between Google and the structure, a four-story-tall building made from shipping containers that sits mostly covered in scaffolding and dark netting on a stationary barge alongside Treasure Island, a former Navy base in the San Francisco Bay. There is a very similar one that is currently located in Portland, …
China has expressed interest in participating in Malaysia’s 330km-long Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high speed rail (HSR) link project. China President Xi Jinping said the project, together with port development and other connectivity projects, were on top of their overseas investment ventures. Earlier this year, Malaysia and Singapore announced plans for the rail link, which is expected …
Toyota Motor Corporation announces that it has developed a next-generation advanced driving support system, Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA), which uses automated driving technologies to support safer highway driving. AHDA links two automated driving technologies to support safer driving and reduce driver workload: Cooperative-adaptive Cruise Control, which wirelessly communicates with preceding vehicles to maintain a …
General Atomics unveiled a land-based artillery version of its Blitzer electromagnetic railgun (EMRG) at the Association of the US Army (AUSA) conference in Washington, DC, with a company official telling IHS Jane’s that with adequate funding the concept could be ready for production in “two to three years”. Railguns are being researched as weapons with …
By the end of this year, Moscow will test its newest ballistic missile, the RS-26 Rubezh equipped with hypersonic manoeuvring units. As Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, said to Vladimir Putin, this system will significantly expand the ability of Russian strategic nuclear …
1. Work to complete Watts Bar 2 remains on course and on budget with commercial operation likely to start in December 2015, according to the latest update on the project issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The fifth quarterly update on the project to complete the 1165 MWe pressurised water reactor covers the period …
Five children with a genetic disease that wipes out their immune system have successfully been treated with gene therapy. Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is also known as “bubble boy” disease, since people affected have to live in a sterile environment. SCID was the first condition to be treated with gene therapy more than 20 years …
Learn the state of the art in fabricating intricate, nanoscale, atomically precise object. ROSETTA software suite includes RosettaDesign, which in Eric Drexler’s view is today’s premier computational design tool for atomically precise fabrication. Here is a brief review of the six most frequent research problems tackled with ROSETTA. For each of these six tasks, we …