By Alvin Wang and Brian Wang Vote for the idea of Domed Cities at the GE Ecomagination competition Over a series of articles (I will link in the other articles as they are written) we will be showing that dome cities can be made profitably and that they can provide energy efficiency and other benefits. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Washington Post reports that spurred on by government incentives and bargain-basement prices, the Chinese are planning to pump hundreds of millions — perhaps billions — of euros into Greece even as other investors run the other way. * The cornerstone of those plans is the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers at the University of Leeds, Durham University, and GlaxoSmithKline have teamed up to create pills that can be printed. * 99.9 percent of a pill is filler * Printing pills means literally printing the active ingredients of a medication onto the side of a tablet. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Nature Materials – Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics Electronics that are capable of intimate, non-invasive integration with the soft, curvilinear surfaces of biological tissues offer important opportunities for diagnosing and treating disease and for improving brain/machine interfaces. This article describes a …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Boeing has a complete 100 kilowatt free electron laser (FEL) design which will operate by passing a beam of high-energy electrons through a series of powerful magnetic fields, generating an intense emission of laser light that can disable or destroy targets The Boeing news release does not …
In my 2010 Foresight presentation on high impact technology and processes, I initially mentioned an idea for computational governance. Computational governance mechanisms would assist in better decisions in government and business. The goal would be to use technology (sensors, imaging etc…) to as quickly as possible get accurate feedback on the results of new policies …
Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future has gotten more details on a Robert Freitas design of a food replacement nanobot. The 148Gd (gadolinium) power source proposal was described in NMI (1999) at http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/6.3.7.1.htm. The semiconductor shell structure crudely illustrated in Fig. 6.7 is intended to be an atomically precise structure. The radioactive 148Gd is kept permanently …
Schematic drawing of the surface reconstruction in Ca(CoxFe1-x)2As2. The circles indicate the As position, the gray lines indicate the surface reconstruction lines seen in the topographic images. For better visibility, we don’t include possible surface dimerization (31) in this drawing. The black rectangle marks the orthorhombic unit cell with lattice parameters as reported by Ref. …
Cell Metabolism journal: Sarcolemmal ATP-Sensitive K+ Channels Control Energy Expenditure Determining Body Weight Metabolic processes that regulate muscle energy use are major determinants of bodily energy balance. Here, we find that sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels, which couple membrane excitability with cellular metabolic pathways, set muscle energy expenditure under physiological stimuli. Disruption of KATP channel …
Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias looked at nuclear winter again. Robin looks at the Scientific American article that attempts to make the case that a regional nuclear war in India and Pakistan would be sufficient to trigger a nuclear winter. UPDATE : Nextbigfuture has an updated article describing why the nuclear winter theory is wrong. …
1. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is displaying, for the first time REX, a small robotic platform designed to accompany ground forces on operations. REX, which can carry up to 200 kilograms, is designed to assist groups of 3-10 ground soldiers on operational and logistical missions for up to 72 hours without refueling, and acts as …