Carnival of Space #100 is up at the One Minute Astronomer. This site provide a projection 250 years forward to the timeframe of Star Trek the new movie (which is the same timeframe of the Original Series. Cumbrian Sky celebrate the Kepler telescope and its mission to find Earth like world. Beyond Apollo looks at …
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics has “Enhanced Adhesion by Gecko-Inspired Hierarchical Fibrillar Adhesives” for makgin wall crawling robots The CMU work will be presented at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12 – 17, 2009, Kobe, Japan. Tankbot is a simple, energy efficient, lightweight (60 g), and robust climbing robot. It uses …
Mexico’s suspected swine flu death toll had climbed to 149 as of April 27, 2009. Most of those who died did not get medical treatment until they were very seriously ill. Many had to be rushed immediately into intensive care. People who have fly symptoms need to be prudent and seek early medical care. Center …
Reprap’s goal is to make 3D prototypers with low fabrication costs widely available. The summary from Wikipedia: Currently, low-end commercial 3D prototypers cost about US$15K [uPrint Personal 3D Printer] and in 2009 US$5K or less and you still need to buy materials and solidifiers, which cost a further $1.5K. Prototypes made by these low-end commercial …
CNN reports that 8 people have died from swine flu, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. [April 25, 2009] The presence of swine flu in Mexico and the United States is “a serious situation” that could develop into a pandemic, the World Health Organization’s director-general said Saturday. “This is an animal …
Chris Phoenix has considered RepRap and cheap 3D desktop manufacturing devices and iterative improvements there as a path evolves into molecular manufacturing. The Reprap can produce its own circuit boards and desktop manufacturing can produce prototypes. I believe that in the near to mid-term the financial and societal impact will be with things like the …
Army is taking submissions for anti-aging research. Wired blogged about the army’s anti-aging projects. If the military can combine the potential of resveratrol with the power of the mole rat. In February, biochemists at the University of Texas Science Center expanded the mitochondrial theory, based on a study of the unbreakable proteins in mole rats, …
Kenji Nakano, Senior Chief Engineer, Honda, outlined a potential product portfolio running from internal combustion engined vehicles; mild hybrids; strong hybrids; plug-in hybrids; range extended electric vehicles; and full battery electric vehicles. The best choice, he said, will differ depending upon the vehicle type and use. We think simple lightweight hybrid systems such as IMA …
Michael Anissimov discusses the idea that self-replicating factories, fed perhaps by acetylene, water, and the Sun (nanofactories) can lift most restrictions on freedom that come from finite resources. Michael refers to a piece by Peter Thiel that technology can enable Libertarianism. I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom …
22 nanometer lithography has been performed with EUV (extreme Ultra Violet Light). (H/T Sander Olson) Fully functional 22nm CMOS SRAM cells of 0.099µm² density have been fabricated at IMEC using ASML’s EUV Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). The new cells are 47% smaller than IMEC’s 0.186µm² cell produced at the 32nm node last year. The results …
In Vitro and In Vivo Pluripotency of piPSCs(A) piPSCs can effectively differentiate invitro into cells in the three germ layers, including neural progenitor cells (Pax6+), characteristic neurons (TUJ1+), mature cardiomyocytes (CT3+), definitive endoderm cells (Sox17+), pancreatic cells (Pdx1+), and hepatic cells (ALB+). Images were merged with DAPI (blue) staining.(B) RT-PCR analysis of invitro differentiation of …