George Church TEDMED Ocober 2010 George Church – 2012 GET Conference We need to sequence everyone’s genome many times, monitor the genome and the epigenome and the microbial components. TEDx Cambridge 2012 Talk George Church considers recent advances in genomics and personalized medicine and asks: as we seek to eliminate disorders like schizophrenia and dyslexia, …
This is a phase 2 NASA NIAC study. A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) mission architecture, which blends a hypervelocity kinetic impactor with a subsurface nuclear explosion for optimal fragmentation and dispersion of hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), has been developed through a 2011 NIAC Phase I study. Despite the uncertainties inherent to the nuclear disruption …
Four of the nation’s 14 high-speed rail lines have been profitable eversince bullet trains started full-speed, intercity service in China two years ago, giving impetus to a Ministry of Railways expansion. Passenger ticket revenues have so far matched expenses — including debt payments — for the busy Beijing-Tianjin, Shanghai-Nanjing, Beijing-Shanghai and Shanghai-Hangzhou lines, a source …
Arxiv (24 pages, researchers from France, Japan and the UK)- Memristors are continuously tunable resistors that emulate synapses. Conceptualized in the 1970s, they traditionally operate by voltage-induced displacements of matter, but the mechanism remains controversial. Purely electronic memristors have recently emerged based on well-established physical phenomena with albeit modest resistance changes. Here we demonstrate that …
1. Mining Weekly – India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) would permit private miners to process beach sand and supply monazite tailings to the government-owned Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) to increase the latter’s capacity to extract thorium and uranium. At present, private miners were allowed to extract rare earths from beach sand but not …
Texas field production of crude oil is at 1.834 million barrels of oil per day in May, 2012. Texas production is at oil production levels last seen in 1991. There is a difference in how the EIA is calculating Texas field production versus the Texas railway commission tracking of crude oil production. The Texas railway …
Wired – Like most technology Who-Done-Its, says Martin Reynolds, an electrical engineering analyst with research outfit Gartner, the questions over HP’s memistor ultimately boil down to semantics. Like Campbell, he says that while HP’s technology HP is not precisely what Chua proposed, it does have memristor-like qualities. “Is Stan Williams being sloppy by calling it …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 114 is up at the ANS Nuclear Cafe 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 …
NSF – researchers have developed a novel system to simultaneously deliver a sustained dose of both an immune-system booster and a chemical to counter the cancer’s secretions, resulting in a powerful therapy that, in mice, delayed tumor growth, sent tumors into remission and dramatically increased survival rates. This illustration depicts a nanolipogel, developed at Yale …
DARPA 2013 budget justification is out and it updates progress on DARPA projects. (336 pages) 1. Fundamentals of Nanoscale and Emergent Effects and Engineered Devices – IE Cold Fusion Investigation Funding FY2011 $16.745 million FY2012 $11.65 million FY2013 $5.5 million This is the project where DARPA is spending about $34 million to investigate cold fusion …
BBC News – Reaction Engines is showcasing its revolutionary Sabre engine technology at the Farnborough air show. They are two-thirds of the way through an important test campaign at its Culham base. Sabre would burn hydrogen and oxygen to provide thrust – but in the lower atmosphere this oxygen would be taken from the atmosphere. …