The Carnival of space Week 69 is up at Discovery Free Space by Irene Klotz The carnival is organized in an A to Z format. This site supplied the Z for Zettaflops and other anticipated breakthroughs with materials, fusion energy and more. Colony Worlds had E for energy, which was geothermal enery on other planets …
A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. (Usually from another animal.) Two methods of producing transgenic mice are widely used: – transforming embryonic stem cells (ES cells) growing in tissue culture with the desired DNA;– injecting the desired gene into the pronucleus of a …
IBM achieved groundbreaking results in transferring data at a sustained rate of over one million Input/Output (I/O) per second — with a response time of under one millisecond (ms). Compared to the fastest industry benchmarked disk system Quicksilver improved performance by 250 percent at less than 1/20th the response time, took up 1/5th the floor …
Honda Insight Hybrid 2010 UPDATE: The 2010 Honda Insight has been introduced but with low EPA ratings of 40-city and 43-highway. Test drives are showing higher mileage. We recently got the opportunity to drive the new Honda Insight through the gently rolling hills just north of Phoenix, AZ, and managed to score 63.4 mile per …
Tobacco mosaic virus is like a 18-nanometer wide straw, which can hold gene silencing RNA The tobacco mosaic virus appears to be the key to safe and effective delivery of gene silencing RNA. Bentley’s team has successfully hollowed out the virus and filled it with siRNA, and then used it to slip the frail substance …
Rodney Brooks, co-founder and CTO of iRobot, is leaving his iRobot post to found his own robotics company, Heartland Robotics. Heartland Robotics, based in Cambridge, Mass., will focus on the manufacture of industrial worker robots. “I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world’s labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost …
UK’s Sheffield Forgemasters is considering the addition of a 15,000 tonne press, which would allow it to accept 500 tonne ingots. The machine, 50% more powerful than its largest existing press, would allow it to make reactor pressure vessels for reactors up to and including Areva’s 1650 MWe EPR, the largest PWR currently on the …
PowerGenix makes a variation on nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries, which are often used in hybrid vehicles (which have a conventional engine to back up the batteries). The company has created a nickel zinc (NiZn) battery that has 35 percent higher power and energy density than NiMH, but is half the cost of a lithium-ion …
Beyond CMOS: Emerging research devices presentation at the summer 2008 ITRS public conference. Emerging Research Device Technology Candidates are to be evaluated. This is the list of devices being considered to go beyond CMOS.– Nano-electro Mechanical Switches– Collective Spin Devices– Spin Torque Transfer Devices– Atomic Switch / Electrochemical Metallization– Carbon-based Nanoelectronics– Single Electron Transistors– CMOL …
Oregon Health & Science University scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that a new therapy may be developed in the future to successfully treat hearing loss. Successful production of functional sensory hair cells in the inner ears of mice suggests that a …
South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has given the go-ahead for the start of production of graphite feedstock for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) demonstration unit. The lifting of the work stop order paves the way for the production of long-lead items. This includes the manufacture of the graphite feedstock material which will be …