Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) forecasts that China’s gross domestic product will exceed 11 percent this year before slowing to just under 10 percent in 2011. (22 page pdf) * Deteriorating trade and still-strong domestic demand would cut current account surplus sharply in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Economist Magazine indicates it is time for all of North Korea’s neighbours to start thinking of how they might together deal with some of the unthinkables they have hitherto tried hard to ignore If China cannot have a grown-up discussion with America about something as …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Wired Danger Room reports that DARPA will have new laser sniper scopes in field trials in 2011. Darpa, the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, is hoping to use lasers and advanced optical systems to make other snipers Harrison-accurate (world record sniper record holder had three accurate 1.54 …
The Boeing X-51A WaveRider on May 26, 2010 successfully completed the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight in history — nearly three and a half minutes at a top speed of Mach 5. The previous longest scramjet burn in a flight test was 12 seconds in a hydrogen-based engine in the NASA X-43. UPDATE – August …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Eric Lerner is the driving personality behind Lawrenceville Plasma Physics who are trying to achieve commercial nuclear fusion using dense plasma focus fusion. Here are 19 pages of slides from a 2005 presentation which list the calculated energies needed for commercial net energy. * DPF extremely …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software What looks possible by 2020 if the research from five different research groups can be combined ? Here is the five things to combine – 1. Montreal researchers have created computer controlled bacteria to make nanopyramids. Magnetic nanoparticles under computer control – determine how the cilia …
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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Wired reports that robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviours than ever before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world’s first architecture for advanced robotic motor skills. If successful, the four-year AMARSi (Adaptive Modular Architecture …
1. Guardian UK and other sources report – China sold $34bn (£21.5bn) worth of US government bonds in December, raising fears that Beijing is using its financial muscle to signal that it has lost confidence in American economic policy. US treasury figures for the period ending in December 2009 show that, following the sale, China …
University of Florida scientists have developed a new nanoparticle that could improve cancer detection and drug delivery. The particle, called a “micelle” and made up of a cluster of molecules called aptamers, easily recognizes tumors and binds strongly to them. It also has properties that allow it to easily get inside cells for intracellular studies …