Two new reactors have been approved to start construction in South Korea this year. Nuclear will continue its strong growth in the country, albeit under a less ambitious energy policy. They plan to build two new APR1400 units at Shin Kori in the south east of the country. The reactors will be the fifth and …
The Resource Prospector is a mission to prospect for lunar volatiles at one of the two lunar poles, as well as demonstrate In-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon. Resource Prospector consists of a lander, a rover (provided by the Canadian Space Agency), and a rover-borne payload. The payload, the Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen …
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid. Stem cell technology cheaper, faster and safer. Stem cells can transform into any tissue and are already being trialled for healing the eye, heart and brain. The study shows that shocking blood cells with acid could also …
Yahoo Japan via Japancrush reports that the first affordable, mass-produced robotic exoskeleton will be on sale next year from Panasonic. For 500,000 yen, or slightly under $5,000, this full-body power garment will let you hoist 100-kilo (220-pound) objects and move at speeds up to 8 kph (5 mph). Activelink, the Panasonic subsidiary responsible for the …
E-catworld reports one of their commenters stopped by (Blacklight Power) BLP around midday today the 28th. The demo was going on, my contact said it was going well. No press vehicles in parking lot, just lots of high end cars and one law enforcement vehicle. All 35 spots filled for the lab demo. Nothing was …
The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa plan is to expand the existing, 10,000 kilometre-long network of major roads to between 60,000 and 100,000 km – either by upgrading existing poor roads or building new ones. The result would be nine arteries, some hugging Africa’s entire coastline, while others strategically criss-cross the continent. Some 250,000 …
Military.com reports that the US Navy is in the early phases of starting research to determine what kind of hull, ship defenses, propulsion technology and weapons systems will be engineered for a new class of DDG Flight IV destroyers to begin service in the 2030s. A directed energy weapon or rail gun, however, might be …
This is an analysis from Ryan Rutkowski of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Singapore’s Temasek was committed to selling underperforming state-owned assets, and even investing in private or foreign companies to improve the performance of its portfolio. Of the 35 state-owned companies in Temasek’s portfolio at inception, only 11 firms remain. The rest have …
The JILA strontium lattice clock is about 50 percent more precise than the record holder of the past few years, NIST’s quantum logic clock. Precision refers to how closely the clock approaches the true resonant frequency at which its reference atoms oscillate between two electronic energy levels. The new strontium clock is so precise it …
Anders Aslund of the Peterson Institute for International Economics has written about the problems that Russia has generating economic growth The annual Gaidar Forum, held last week in Moscow, is a good occasion to assess the country’s economic state of affairs. Russia’s economy and politics are marked by what optimists call stability and what pessimists …
In 2014, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) will carry out our first crowdfunding campaign this spring. Given adequate funding and supplier timeliness, LPP will start experiments in May with the tungsten electrodes, expecting a nearly 100-fold increase in plasmoid density and fusion yield. With these experiments LPP expect to confirm in the course of a few …