DARPA intends to award a 24-month contract to either or both of the HELLADS developers – General Atomics and Textron Defense Systems – to build and ground-test a 150 kilowatt laser compatible with the requirement for a weapon-system weight of 750kg. High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) The goal of the High Energy …
DARPA project solicitations for 2010 SB101-001 Development of Robust, Effective, Inexpensive, Flexible Water and Oxygen Barriers for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (FOLEDs)SB101-002 Enabling Effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems by Sensing AffectSB101-003 Therapeutic Hypothermia for Treating Traumatic Brain InjurySB101-004 High Performance Imaging for Small UAV ApplicationsSB101-005 Tools for the Analysis of Social and Group DynamicsSB101-006 Adaptive Data …
The New York Times reports that new CDC H1N1 death statistics that will be released Nov 12-19, 2009 will be about 4000 deaths This is up from prior estimates of 1200 H1N1 deaths in the USA. The actual release date of the updated estimates depends upon the completion of further review. The larger number of …
Tri-alpha energy may reveal some results or technical details in 2010 H/T Talk Polywell Patents related to the Tri-alpha energy work Back in 2007, Tri Alpha raised $40 million Unlike many government-sponsored efforts, however, Tri Alpha is working with fusion reactions that produce fewer neutrons and, thus, less radiation, Mr. Rothrock says. The company also …
1. Cameco trying to drain Cigar Lake again. Hope to drain the water in 6 months and then assess mine. Cigar Lake is a big mine with about 176000 tons of uranium reserves and under full production would be expected to produce 9000 tons/year. This would be about 20% of current natural uranium production and …
NY Times: “In five or six or seven years,” said Christoph Westphal, Sirtris co-founder [Sirtis was bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million], “there will be drugs that prolong longevity.” [H/T Michael Annisimov, Accelerating Future] SRT-501, the company’s special formulation of resveratrol, is being tested against two cancers, multiple myeloma and colon cancer that has spread …
1. University of North Carolina engineers have produced a ‘How-To’ Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles. researchers from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel. …
Silicon and Gallium nitride have been used to create a single hybrid microchip. This will allow transistors to be made smaller and sets of several chips made of different material in a cellphone can be combined into a single chip This is also an advance towards photonics on a chip which are needed for high …
From the UK Guardian, a Tunisian woman is due to give birth to 12 babies, which could be a world record. UPDATED: This has turned out to be a complete fraud. Tunisian authorities did tests and the woman is not even pregant. She just has mental problems. Octo is the prefix for eight as in …
Time Magazine has an update: There are 100 million electric bikes in China Last year (2008) Chinese bought about 90% of the 23 million e-bikes sold worldwide. Experts say that next regions to likely embrace e-bikes are Southeast Asia, where gas-powered scooters are popular, and India, where rising incomes mean personal transportation is starting to …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Discovery Channel’s Mega-engineering discusses a proposal to place a dome over Houston if climate change threats fully materialized. The Houston dome would even be more economical even without addressing climate change but as a more efficient way to keep residents confortable than using air conditioning for cars …