Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) project is the largest funded optical telescope in the World. With a diameter of 42 m and being fully adaptive from the start, the E-ELT will be more than one hundred times more sensitive than the present-day largest optical telescopes. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software UK astronomers (working with astronomers and observatories in Chile, Australia, Japan and Hawaii) have discovered a very cool brown dwarf, which is amongst the ten nearest stars to the Solar System Brown dwarfs are bodies with masses in the range between those of giant planets and …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. Barry Brook, a leading australian academic, predicts that global demand for mined uranium will rise at least fourfold over the next 30 years, driven by rising electricity demand and scaling back on fossil fuel dependence. Thermal reactors currently contributed about 380 GW (gigawatts) of global electricity …
University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles. These nano-sized generators have “piezoelectric” properties that allow them to convert into electricity the energy created through mechanical stress, stretches and twists. “This technology could eventually lead to wearable ‘smart clothes’ that can power hand-held electronics …
General Motors researchers have made an extremely strong adhesive that comes apart when heated. The adhesive is 10 times stickier than Velcro and the reusable gecko-inspired glues that many research groups have been trying to perfect. The polymers in the glue bond to each other within minutes when they are initially heated. Thus, when two …
The Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the CEA (CEA-Leti) of France claimed it has developed a low-power solution for high-speed networks (1 to 100 Gbps) using long-wavelength VCSELs (Vertical Cavity Emitting Lasers). Project Partners claimed they demonstrated error-free 10GBASE-LR operation up to 100°C, concurrently with record performance: single-mode ( > 30dB SMSR) power of …
1. Scientists working on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), in a disused iron ore mine in Minnesota, have announced that they had detected two weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs), that are thought to make up dark matter. If they are confirmed by further observations that will begin next year, they would rank as one of …
Guest article by Joseph Friedlander Your occasional correspondent made a special trip to Tel Aviv (I live out in the sticks in Israel) to the Systematics (http://www.systematics.co.il/English/about.html) hosted the Tel Aviv Solidworks 2010 Show. This is the one show I try to go to every year to keep up with the tools of the industrial …
Friedwardt Winterberg has an update on this microfusion rocket. There is a lot of interesting material in his advanced deuterium rocket, but this will focus on the Appendix where he considers the possibility of replacing the nuclear fission trigger of a nuclear fusion bomb with an alternative. It is the nuclear fission bomb part of …
NY Times: “In five or six or seven years,” said Christoph Westphal, Sirtris co-founder [Sirtis was bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million], “there will be drugs that prolong longevity.” [H/T Michael Annisimov, Accelerating Future] SRT-501, the company’s special formulation of resveratrol, is being tested against two cancers, multiple myeloma and colon cancer that has spread …
NY Times: “In five or six or seven years,” said Christoph Westphal, Sirtris co-founder [Sirtis was bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million], “there will be drugs that prolong longevity.” [H/T Michael Annisimov, Accelerating Future] SRT-501, the company’s special formulation of resveratrol, is being tested against two cancers, multiple myeloma and colon cancer that has spread …