NASA’s NanoSail-D spacecraft has become unstuck and has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet. riday, Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. EST, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite deployed its 100-square-foot polymer sail …
Singularity Hub has coverage of a system for freezing organs without damaging them. What do you do to prevent ice crystals during slow freezing? Use magnets. ABI is the Japanese company producing the freezer system.ABI’s “Cells Alive System” (CAS) vibrates water with magnetic fields, preventing freezing, even at supercool temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius (According …
Hplus Magazine has detailed coverage on Genescient (life extension company) and their new Stem Cell 100 product I have started taking Stem Cell 100. It is about $60 for a one month supply. I would also recommend supporting SENS rejuvenation research and Robert Freitas’s nanomedicine work (donate through IMM) Genescient’s primary business focus is on …
Plastic Logic’s flexible backplane is combined with a frontplane material (e.g. electronic paper) to make a flexible display Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and Plastic Logic today announced they have finalized details of RUSNANO’s investment in the company, which is the global leader in the emerging field of plastic electronics. The investment project, which will …
The Dream Chaser’s carbon-composite frame, seen from the front right side, is undergoing stress tests in an earthquake-simulation lab at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The decals bear the names of companies involved with the project. Credit: Katherine Bourzac MIT Technology Review – NASA funded the Sierra Nevada Corporation with $20 million to develop …
Michael Dittmar wrote a series of posts about nuclear energy that was published on The Oil Drum in 2009. In the first post of the series, he said that uranium “civilian uranium stocks are expected to be exhausted during the next few years” and “the current uranium supply situation is unsustainable”. Basically lack of uranium …
Director Bryan Singer has signed on to produce a horror thriller series for Warner Bros. The series is entitled “H+” and Warner Bros. is describing the film as a “futuristic survival tale.” This is a story set nine years in the future, where everyone has constant access to the internet through implanted microchips and access …
Arxiv – Independent individual addressing of multiple neutral atom qubits with a MEMS beam steering system (9 pages) One of several promising approaches to quantum computing uses arrays of individual atoms suspended by electromagnetic forces. Pulses of laser light manipulate the internal states of the atoms that represent the qubits, to carry out the calculation. …
Arxiv – Pair Creation in QED-Strong Pulsed Laser Fields Interacting with Electron Beams (25 pages) QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counterpropagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J ≥ 5 · 10^22 W/cm2 combined with …
MIT Technology Review – 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet If you want to simulate the Earth, you’ll need data on the climate, health, finance, economics, traffic and lots more. Here’s where to find it. Arxiv – From Social Data Mining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis Socio-economic data mining has a great potential in terms …
1. Nuclear decay-driven machines could gather gases from the atmosphere of Mars, giving future robotic missions leaps of a kilometer once per week The Opportunity rover, which has been on the Martian surface for nearly seven years, passed the 25-kilometer mark this week. A new Mars hopper could cover 50 kilometers per year or 350 …