It is not officially announced but it appears that SENS (antiaging project) has won the 3banana contest Thanks to all of those who provided comments that were counted. Final count appears to be 2530 comments for SENS and 2349 for Las Angeles Habitation House and less for about 50 other non-profits. The SENS 3banana page. …
Jamais Cascio, Open the Future, claims that ending politics is a delusion and provides the following example. In the early days of the dot-com era, this attitude resulted in the absence of digital tech industry voices in Washington, DC, allowing the incumbent telecom and entertainment industries free rein to write laws and buy politicians without …
1. — Dental and tissue engineering researchers at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have harnessed the pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to generate complex, multilayer tissues that mimic human skin and the oral mucosa (the moist tissue that lines the inside of …
Researchers have discovered human antibodies that neutralize not only H5N1 bird flu but other strains of influenza as well and say they hope to develop them into lifesaving treatments. Flu at wikipedia. Flu kills about 250,000 people every year. This can increase to 1-2 million during a pandemic. The spanish flu killed over 50 million …
By Alvin Wang People have been asking what is Web 2.0 and what is 3.0.People have been asking what is Web 2.0 and what is 3.0. Is Web 2.0 ajax or social networking? I would propose that the question is completely irrelevant. The current Internet is an application of the next generation of computer architectures. …
Carnival of Space Week 74 is up at Kentucky Space. This site contributed an article about the Hyperion uranium hydride nuclear power reactor and how its light weight would make it suitable for power lunar facilities. Centauri Dreams talks about laser pushed solar sails. The lasers powered by using tethers in Jupiter’s magnetosphere for the …
Free piston engines could achieve efficiencies of 50% which is almost double a regular gas combustion engine. However, new super efficient diesel engines could be even better, plus diesels would be more familiar to the market place. Some small companies are working on free piston engines and there are researchers around the world at Sandia …
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 …
The state (North Dakota’s) Industrial Commission reports that North Dakota oil wells pumped an average of 150,578 barrels a day in April. The previous high of 147,774 barrels a day was set in August 1984. North Dakota reported 5700 more barrels of oil per day in March, 2008 March production was 143738 bopd versus February …
The Carnival of Space 57 is up at Out of the Cradle This site contributed an article about some problems with lorentz propulsion tests but success with the SpaceX Falcon 9 International Space Development day 1 International Space Development day 2 International Space Development day 3 Babe in the Universe also had International space development …
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an adhesive that is the first to master the easy attach and easy release of the reptile’s padded feet. The material could prove useful for a range of products, from climbing equipment to medical devices. One of my predictions from 2006 was that there would be …