Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have mimicked viral tactics to build the first DNA nanodevices that survive the body’s immune defenses. Lipid-coated DNA nanodevices closely resemble those viruses and evade the immune defenses of mice. The results pave the way for smart DNA nanorobots that could use logic to diagnose cancer …
Previously we reported taht John Fitzpatrick was forming a company that he says will provide competitively priced commodity cloud-based services on what he’s calling the world’s first Exaflop Supercomputer. He will use foreign currency trading as the main application. This is the Bitcoin mining of the Foreign Exchange market. The machine will cost $50 billion. …
Remember in “Star Wars” when Luke Skywalker deflects lasers from a floating orb with his lightsaber? Google and NASA are planning a floating sphere. The floating robots, or SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) will roam around the International Space Station equipped with Google’s Project Tango technology. There are three SPHERES currently aboard …
Paul Krugman declares that environmental salvation will be cheap. This is based upon the IPCC saying that estimated reduction in economic growth would be around 0.06 percent per year [IF all nations began following IPCC energy, transportation and efficiency recommendations immediately, All of the countries of the world begin mitigation immediately, there is a single …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) should be launching their crowdsourcing effort in May, 2014. They need to get their Tungsten electrode and then later switch to a berrylium electrode. If successful with their research and then commercialization they will achieve commercial nuclear fusion at the cost of $400,000-1 million for a 5 megawatt generator that would …
Aviation Week has a review of Space Based Solar power projects. IEEE spectrum indicates that Japan’s Space Agency has a roadmap for a 1 Gigawatt space based solar power system in 2031. All of the old space based solar power designs are not workable. They are too big and too heavy. Reusable rockets and the …
Mitsubishi Electric is ready to launch the first commercial, nationwide, centimeter-scale satellite positioning technology. The Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), will augment Japan’s use of the U.S.-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite service. By precisely correcting GPS signal errors, QZSS can provide more accurate and reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services. To correct the errors, a …
Scientists are admitting that it is too late to prevent carbon dioxide from getting to levels where 2 degrees of warming can be prevented according to climate models. The entire approach of asking for costly economic sacrifices Countries have delayed action for so long that the necessary emissions cuts will have to be extremely sharp. …
The newly released program of the VLSI Technology and Circuits conference shows both historic advances and struggles ahead in silicon. The June event will include an early look at a 10 nm FinFET process as well as a discussion of a pile of new technologies all potentially arriving at the 7 nm node. One paper …
US all liquids and US crude oil production continued to increase. 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 month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …
Rafael is looking at a number of enhancements to the Iron Dome missile defence system as a result of lessons learned over recent engagements. Since its first successful interception on 7 April 2011, the Iron Dome has engaged more than 700 rockets with an official success rate at greater than 80% (some sources put this …