Carnival of Space 97 is up at Cheap Astro and it has a lot of good articles. This site contributed the article on the layer of ice found less than one meter below the surface of Mars. Meridiani Journal looks at the sub-surface water on Titan Titan is already known to have lakes and seas …
The James Martin 21st Century school has received 36 million pounds in a matching grant donation from James Martin. [H/T to Michael Anissimov at Accelerating future The Institutes who will share the money:AgeingArmedConflict Cancer Therapy Carbon Reduction Emerging Infections Energy Materials Environmental Change Ethics of Biosciences Future of Humanity [this is where Nick Bostrom, Robin …
MultiAir turbocharged and downsized engines can achieve up to 25 per cent fuel economy improvement over conventional naturally aspirated engines with the same level of performance. Maximum power is increased by up to 10 per cent thanks to the adoption ofa power-orientated mechanical camshaft profile. Low RPM torque is improved by up to 15 per …
There is an online paper that discusses technical work and a proposed program to get detailed Molten Salt Reactor designs built. A powerpoint presentation illustrates the proposals from the japanese technical report. There is the Ralph Moir paper on how to launch and scale a thorium Molten Salt Reactor program. Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
Fruit flies and humans share most of their genes, including 70 percent of all known human disease genes. Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a laboratory model for an innovative study of gliomas, the most common malignant brain tumors. Being able …