Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio have gained funding to carry out a clinical trial injecting a virus carrying a gene called follistatin which stimulates muscle growth Jerry Mendell M.D. and Brian Kaspar PhD have been awarded a US$600,000 grant by the US charity Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. The money will be used to …
Quantum Computer researcher Suzanne Gildert claims that computronium is unobtanium. Computronium is defined by some as a substance which approaches the theoretical limit of computational power that we can achieve through engineering of the matter around us. It would mean that every atom of a piece of matter would be put to useful work doing …
Steve Jobs claimed a high tablet market share at the IPad2 rollout Many have said (iPad) is the most successful consumer product ever launched. Over 90% market share and our competitors were flummoxed.” There are difficulties determining how many tablets Ycombinator has a debate about the claims. There will be hundreds of competing tablets in …
Ideas for Space Industrialization in the spirit of G. Harry Stine’s The Third Industrial Revolution By Joseph Friedlander Space Products And Potential Earthly Markets. The original Space Age (say 1958-68 and to a lesser degree all the way to 1975) was not merely the successor to the Atomic Age (immediate post WW2 say 1945-57) but …
What makes a nation, a people, a lifestyle productive of wealth? And what would living that way feel like? By Joseph Friedlander Note: This is a very long article Brian Wang has written extensively on the concept of the Mundane Singularity (Singularity lite) in analogy to beverages, which does not include the full Eric Drexler-like …
It has been pointed out that the NRC is not successful in facilitating a nuclear industry that is not static. If the nuclear industry is not active building new reactors, not trying to get new types of reactors and just applying for continued operation of existing light water reactor then the NRC can handle it. …
James Woodward’s latest paper will be published in Foundations of Physics later this year. It’s about how the Mach Effect can be applied to the Warp Drive and Stargate problem. It covers some new and interesting ground on how to make warp drives and stargates using the M-E’s wormhole and higher terms to generate the …
The US Nuclear Regulatory commission was established in 1974 Adding in pre-application time with licensing certification period for the NRC review of a new reactor certification is 7-20+ years and of the more than one dozen different reactors that have been up to pre-application only 4 reactors are certified and three of those are variations …
In an interview with Sander Olson, Kevin Parkin, the Deputy Director of the Mission Design Center at NASA Ames, discusses the potential benefits of using microwave power to send payloads to orbit. Microwave power should in theory provide a more efficient, more reliable, and less expensive method than conventional chemical propulsion approaches. Microwave propulsion could …
University of Pennsylvania roboticist Daniel Lee is a researcher at the Penn’s General Robotics Sensing and Perception (GRASP) lab. His students are building robots that compete in robotic soccer leagues, with the ultimate aim being to create a robotic soccer team that can beat the human world cup winners by 2050. Dr. Lee’s team has …
DARPA has new solicitations for 2011 Controlling Cellular Machinery – Vaccines Looking for new ideas about how to discover, design, evolve, assemble and demonstrate the ability to use genetic components, modules and circuits for the development of a highly efficacious nucleic acid based vaccine whose activity can be regulated in vivo by a mammalian host. …