Northwestern University’s Jiaxing Huang is ready to reignite carbon nanotube research. And he’s doing so with a common chemical that was once used in household cleaners. By using an inexpensive, already mass produced, simple solvent called cresol, Huang has discovered a way to make disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations without the need for …
Scientists at the research consortium CaloriCool® are closer than ever to the materials needed for a new type of refrigeration technology that is markedly more energy efficient than current gas compression systems. Currently, residential and commercial cooling consumes about one out of every five kilowatt-hours of electricity generated in the U.S., but a caloric refrigeration …
Rotten Tomatoes is still has 73% on Rotten Tomatoes. A review that I trust from Jeremy Jahns says that the pacing is bad, the Solo movie is flawed, predictable and boring. Jahns is usually a hardcore Star Wars fan. He gives Solo the same rating he gave Attack of the Clones. Charlie from Emergency Awesome …
The Carnival of Space 561 is up at nextbigcoins.io. Universe Today – How Many of Earth’s Moons Crashed Back Into the Planet? US Blasting News – NASA’s Kilopower experiment paves the way to powering lunar bases The Hill – Why Mars is not a priority for space exploration Nextbigcoins – Planetary Resources may use blockchain …
Elon Musk indicates that SpaceX will probably build 30 to 40 rocket cores for ~300 missions over 5 years. Then SpaceX BFR takes over and Falcon retires. The goal of SpaceX BFR is to enable anyone to move to moon, Mars And eventually outer planets. 300 missions over 5 years is an average of 60 …
The clock is ticking down. On or around August, 2018 Prime Minister Trudeau will sign the Cannabis Act – fully legalizing recreational marijuana in Canada. With mere months until this $22.6 billion market, which includes retail cannabis and all related products and services, is ripped wide open, there’s a major problem most investors are ignoring: …
Libra Credit is a decentralized lending ecosystem that facilitates open access to credit anywhere and anytime based on the Ethereum blockchain. Libra was founded by former PayPal technical and financial experts, Libra Credit is a leader in the lending industry, specializing in blockchain technology. Using a suite of decentralized lending smart contracts, Libra Credit allows …
In 2017, Austin Russell, CEO of Silicon Valley LIDAR startup Luminar, said the first generation of self-driving cars will cost $300,000-$400,000. * Current systems have a “critical failure rate”—how often they fail to “see” an object—of one error in 1,000 miles. To be acceptable for use on public roads, that rate will have to drop …
Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan and his colleagues describe an innovative DNA walker, capable of rapidly traversing a prepared track. Rather than slow, tentative steps across a surface, the new DNA acrobat cartwheels head over heels, covering ground 10 to 100 times faster than previous devices. Above -Hao Yan, director of the Biodesign Center …
Researchers have the molecular structure of telomerase. This should speed up the discovery of the best activators and inhibitors of telomerase. Good activators of telomerase has been shown to boost the lifespan of mice by 20%. Nature – Cryo-EM structure of substrate-bound human telomerase holoenzyme The enzyme telomerase adds telomeric repeats to chromosome ends to …
Russia’s floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov has left Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in Saint Petersburg. It has two 35 Megawatt KLT-40S nuclear reactors, similar to those used in Russia’s nuclear-powered ice breakers. Akademik Lomonosov left the shipyard on 28 April and is now heading to its permanent base in Russia’s northernmost city of Pevek. The …