Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Techonomy conference has a pre-conference workshop on ‘How to Measure the impact and transformational power of technology ? They have presented a networked readiness index to rank all countries with a single metric on information, communication technology The World Economic Forum’s Networked Readiness Index (NRI) …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Ralph McNutt takes a detailed but flawed look at human missions to the outer solar system. He looks at using Extremely heavy lift launch vehicles (EHLLV chemical rockets) to lift about 1000 tons to low earth orbit and then scaled up versions of the Vasimr magnetoplasma …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Telegraph UK and other sources are reporting that 3 million babies are hidden in China each year. This is according to research by Liang Zhongtang, a demographer and former member of the expert committee of China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission. People have been …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Northrop Grumman Corporation has set a new electronics performance record with a Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) operating at 0.67 terahertz (THz), or 0.67 trillion cycles per second. (H/T Popular Science Developed at the company’s Simon Ramo Microelectronics Center under a contract with the Defense Advanced …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University’s light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials. Much as a child might use Lego blocks to build 3-D …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 151 is up at Weird Science Nextbigfuture provided : 1. Vastly improved direct imaging of exoplanets via Vector Vortex Coronograph. 2. Part 1 of an overview of space launch concepts 3. A continuation of the energy discussion/debate with Weird Science which was …
Embedded below is the powerpoints of the presentation that I made at the Foresight 2010 conference (Nanotechnology and AGI). I will be expanding upon various segments of the presentation in articles on this site. The initial 23 or so slides (after the title and introduction) are about technology that has some potential to significantly impact …
Figure 1: Schematic diagrams of three types of quantum simulators: atoms (red) held in place by an optical field (green; top left); ions (yellow) aligned using an electromagnetic field (top right); and superconducting circuits (bottom). Iulia Buluta and Franco Nori of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute present an overview of how quantum simulators may become …
Bonn scientists discover a promising new approach to combat obesity Fighting fat with fat The researchers suspect that a disorder of the brown fatty tissue can lead to obesity in adults. If it were possible to turn on the ‘natural heating system’ on again, the problem of unwanted fat would be quickly solved: according to …
From the New Scientsit, it would be possible to perform annual tests and give existing drugs to whoever tests positive, the drugs can reduce transmission rates to 1 in 1000. A program of HIV elimination would cost several billion per year more than current treatment but would start costing less in about 2030. Better and …
1. Alan Boyle at msnbc reports that the IEC fusion project is still in limbo awaiting a review of their results and for word on follow up funding. [EMC2 Fusion] is waiting for guidance from a peer-review panel and his funders on whether to proceed to the second phase. “We’ve been pretty busy, but it’s …