Sanofi-Pasteur, the world’s biggest vaccine company, has signed a contract with the University of California, San Diego, to develop “an immunological approach to acne prevention and treatment”. Acne is no joke. “More than 85 per cent of teenagers and over 40 million people in the United States alone are suffering this disease” and many adults …
Physicists and engineers had already demonstrated rudimentary invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, and water waves. Now, they’ve devised an “antimagnet” cloak that can shield an object from a constant magnetic field without disturbing that field. If realized, such a cloak could have medical applications, researchers say. The researchers demonstrated the feasibility …
University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese, whose career research shows that low doses of some chemicals and radiation are benign or even helpful, says he has uncovered evidence that one of the fathers of radiation genetics, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Muller, knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe …
The 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid, which offers seating for five, is expected to achieve a manufacturer-estimated 87 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent) in combined driving and 49 MPG in hybrid mode. The recent introduction of the larger Prius v and now the Prius Plug-in Hybrid brings this eco-focused model range to four distinct vehicles, including …
EETimes – Hynix has produced a 15-nm NAND flash memory cell which it plans to unveil at this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). Hynix is due to report on an 84-nm pitch memory process for the production of 1-Gbit phase-change memories and beyond. As memory process are usually denoted by the half-pitch that is …
Technology Review – George Church is most excited about using regeneration as the key to treatments and keeping people health. Regeneration using induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells. He also wants to get personalized genomics. He wants to establish an IPS line for every single person who gets sequenced. First bone marrow patients. Then skin, then …
A research team working under Natcore Technology Inc. co-founder Prof. Andrew Barron has fabricated two families of multilayer quantum dot films, one with silicon quantum dots and the other with germanium quantum dots, both of which have demonstrated the ability to produce a photo-generated current. Natcore’s scientists have discovered that its LPD (Liquid Phase Deposition) …
Here is a discussion on Seasteading. 1- The core aim is to escape meddling by any modern states – mostly advanced enlightenment democracies, with their heavy taxes and regulations, while seasteader owner members will still retain full, web-accessed control of their investment portfolios and dividend incomes from those societies. 2- This business plan has to …
There was a conference set up by the Dept of Energy to look at the technical issues for building Exaflop supercomputers and beyond. Presenter Presentation Title Agarwal, Anant The Road to Exascale: Are We Being Radical Enough? Bergman, Keren Silicon Photonics for Exascale Computing Borkar, Shekhar Technology and Design Challenges to Realize Exascale Dally, Bill …
1. ZME Science – Beautiful exoplanet aurorae 1000 times brighter than on Earth 2. Docmadhattan – Brian May, astrophysicist: a little review of research activity of Queen’s guitarist. In 1972 and 1973 two papers signed by Mr.May are be published: MgI Emission in the Night-Sky Spectrum and An Investigation of the Motion of Zodiacal Dust …
Cold Fusion Now has an english translation of new cold fusion research by Piantelli. The name of Piantelli’s company is Nichenergy. The italian coverage on Piantelli is here * Older units worked continuously for months and produced 2× to 4× energy gain, but the actual energy balance was higher, as the cells reached self-sustaining mode. …