A New York Times review of THE CASE AGAINST PERFECTION Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. By Michael J. Sandel. When norms change, you can always find old fogeys who grouse that things aren’t the way they used to be. In the case of football, Sandel finds a retired N.F.L. player to support his …
NanoDynamics IPO could help increase funding for various kinds of nanotechnology companies NanoDynamics is looking at a $100 million IPO. They have nanostructured components as part of fuel cell products and nanoparticle products. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com …
The world will be spending about 9 trillion on energy infrastructure over the next 45 years. According to Booz Allen Hamilton consulting40 trillion on overall infrastructure. The biggest chunk is for water infrastructure. About 9.4 trillion road, rail and airports as well. We should have better long term planning and a wholistic approach to energy …
Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch say the yuan will gain 9.6 per cent to about 7 per US dollar within 13 months. China’s economy in 2008 would then be US$3.7 trillion. This does not include Hong Kong and Macau which would increase the size of the economy to $3.9 trillion. Various economists say that the …
30 Gigawatts by 2020 is considered achievable (supply chain constraints) but 40 gigawatts by 2020 is the target India and Brazil have 80% of the known Thorium reserves and Thorium nuclear fission is India’s long term energy strategy. Funding projects would not be a problem as NPCIL is currently sitting on cash reserve of Rs …
A hot ice Neptune sized world with water has been found The star GJ 436, a diminutive star (red dwarf) 30 light-years from the Sun, was known since 2004 to harbour a 22-Earth mass planet, orbiting 4 million kilometers from the star (0.03 Astronomical Units). Measurements show that the planet has a diameter of about …
Grazing the scalp and Wnt proteins could cure baldness. The team cut out a square centimetre of skin from the backs of mice two weeks after their hair follicles had formed. After 14 to 19 days the wounds had closed and formed new. When the researchers added Wnt proteins – signalling molecules usually involved in …
Loss of only one of the genes, a gene encoding the protein PHA-4, negated the lifespan-enhancing effect of calorie-restriction in worms. And, when researchers undertook the opposite experiment—by overexpressing pha-4 in worms—the longevity effect was enhanced. “PHA-4 acts completely independent of insulin/IGF-1 signaling and turns out to be essential for CR-mediated longevity,” says Panowski. “We …
US-based BCC Research is forecasting the global market for carbon nanotubes to reach $79.1m in 2007. This is up by 55% from the $50.9m that BCC estimates the global market was worth in 2006 and the group predicts even stronger growth ahead. At a compound annual growth rate of 73.8%, the booming market for carbon …
There has been a proof of concept using lasers to enable the first use of Deutsch’s Algorithm in a cluster state quantum computer. Cluster state quantum computers or one-way quantum computer are a scheme of quantum computation that consists entirely of one-qubit measurements on a particular class of entangled states, the cluster states. (“A One-Way …
British gene hunters said they have found the strongest DNA marker yet for obesity, and one that is very common among most Europeans. The investigators first identified the gene, FTO, in the DNA of people with type 2, or late-onset diabetes, a condition that is lifestyle-related. Individuals with one copy of the FTO variant had …