Evolutionary biologist Alan Walker, a professor at Penn State University, argues that humans may lack the strength of chimps because our nervous systems exert more control over our muscles. Our fine motor control prevents great feats of strength, but allows us to perform delicate and uniquely human tasks. Walker’s hypothesis stems partly from a finding …
About a 45 minute interview of the cold fusion researchers. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream Organizer, Jan Marwan, first 5 minutesSteven Krivit, New Energy Times, 6-10 minutes. Overview of the last 20 yearsAntonella De Ninno, 10-13 minutesPamela Boss, 13-17 minutes, Navy researcher who detected neutrons John Dash, 17-22 minutesMahadeva Srinivasan, 22-28Q & A 29-45 minutesTriple …
Previously this site has discussed nanotechnology progress: Significant recent developments with nanotechnology. Self Assembly and directed assembly could take over from lithography for the next stage of computer miniturization to reach 1-2 nanometer features. The self assembly of 10-100 terabit per square inch magnetic memory. They have self assembled several square centimeters and the process …
The initials for Stanford University are written in electron waves on a piece of copper and projected into a tiny hologram. Stanford researchers describe how they have created letters more than four times smaller than the IBM xenon atom arranged initials. “But in this experiment we’ve stored some 35 bits per electron to encode each …
Fruit flies and humans share most of their genes, including 70 percent of all known human disease genes. Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a laboratory model for an innovative study of gliomas, the most common malignant brain tumors. Being able …
The International Herald Tribune indicates that China is taking small steps to establishing the Yuan as a regional currency. The yuan’s journey from a controlled, partially convertible currency to a liquid, regional medium of exchange will be a long one, because of the desire of the Beijing government for economic stability. In addition, Beijing has …
Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do. A local middle-class person in a developing country begins where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter. This allows them not just to buy things …
Startup 4DS Inc. has emerged from stealth mode and claims to have made a major breakthrough in resistive random access memory (RRAM) technology. FRAM, MRAM, phase-change, RRAM and other technologies are vying for dominance in the ”universal memory” race. 4DS’s website and technology details are at this link. The companies chart and the announcement are …
Single atom quantum dots created by researchers at Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta make possible a new level of control over individual electrons, a development that suddenly brings quantum dot-based devices within reach. It is demonstrated that the silicon atom dangling bond (DB) state serves as a quantum dot. Coulomb …
Carbon nanotube fiber on spindle from Alan Windle group. 2007 picture The Times UK claims Alan Windle’s team at Cambridge University has created the world’s strongest ribbon: a cylindrical strand of carbon that combines lightweight flexibility with incredible strength and has the potential to stretch vast distances. There may have been no advance or minimal …
Christian Bale is signed up for three Terminator Movies as the character John Conner who is the savior of humanity in the Terminator Movies. Christian Bale has a more important role in reality as the savior and revivor of major hollywood action movie franchises. Christian Bale was Batman for the fifth and sixth Batman movies. …