Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Curved, twisted and overhanging microscopic structures have been made by US researchers from carbon nanotubes by exploiting capillary action. The technique can be used to make patterns of multiple different shapes at the same time and opens up new possibilities for tunable surfaces. John Hart and …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Atomic force micrograph of a one-atom thick sheet of graphene trapping water on a mica surface. The ice crystals (lightest blue) are the height of a two-water-molecule thick ice crystal. This first layer of water is ice, even at room temperature. At high humidity levels, a …
Researchers have created a molecule that blocks the activity of the muscle-limiting protein myostatin in mice. It can fully reverse the devastating muscle loss that often accompanies advanced cancer — and thereby increase the lifespan of animals with the disease. Instead of myostatin binding to its normal receptor and triggering muscle wastage, it is ‘mopped …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. DARPA has the iFAB program to develop “foundry-style manufacturing capability.” By which they mean microchip foundries – the generic, build-any-chip-for-any-designer factories that churn out microchips for every application you can imagine, and which are the dominant mode of manufacture for most of the silicon in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Amory Lovins wrote the Energy Strategy : The Road not Taken? in 1976 for Foreign Affairs and now is promoting Reinventing Fire. The Energy Strategy from 1976 and Reinventing Fire are very similar. Cogeneration at in 1976 was 4% of the energy of the United States. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software We covered work with a superthin computer just two molecules thick can solve complex problems and, somewhat like the human brain, can evolve to improve and perform many operations simultaneously. This is significant progress on molecular computing with molecular switches that is highly parallel and using …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Using an innovative nanotechnology-based “vaccine,” researchers were able to successfully restore normal blood sugar in mice with type 1 diabetes, and also slow the onset of diabetes in mice at risk for the disease. The study, co-funded by JDRF and published today in the online edition …
The Washington Post and other sources are reporting the announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran has a program of Laser Enrichment of Uranium It is believed that the laser enrichment is still at experimental quantities and that the main enrichment is still centrifuges. Here is a 14 page pdf of the history of …
The Economist reports on a science paper, Sudden Infant death Syndrome (SIDS) may have a genetic cause. Dr Audero’s results suggest that some upset of the serotonin system may be a necessary, but not always sufficient, part of the pattern that leads to SIDS. It will be enough to kill some children, but needs an …
SUNRGI’s “concentrated photovoltaic” system relies on lenses to magnify sunlight 2,000 times, letting it produce as much electricity as standard panels with a far smaller system. They say they’ll start producing solar panels by mid-2009 that will generate electricity for about 7 cents a kilowatt hour, including installation. Update: Very cool: Dilbert blog [Scott Adams] …