Public Access TV Show Future Talk has an episode on Nanotechnology and it’s future applications Host Martin Wasserman interviews technology forecaster and research director of the Lifeboat Foundation Brian Wang, and managing partner of Cleantech Circle and co-founder of the MIT-Stanford-Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum Wasiq Bokhari. The show is about 30 minutes long and was a …
This is the seventh set of highlights for Next Big Future for 2009. Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 39-45 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 33-38 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 20-32 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 13-19 Here is …
In experiments involving a different new technology, thermal diodes, Peter Hagelstein (MIT) worked with Yan Kucherov, now a consultant for the Naval Research Laboratory, and coworkers to demonstrate efficiency as high as 40 percent of the Carnot Limit. Moreover, the calculations show that this new kind of system could ultimately reach as much as 90 …
Reason.com Ronald Bailey covered the Manhattan Beach Project. Over the weekend Maximum Life Foundation president David Kekich gathered a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to meet for three days with the goal of developing a scientific and business strategy to make extreme human life extension a real possibility within a couple of decades. How …
University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts. Pre-formed blood vessels in patches connect to rodents’ heart circulation. The disk-shaped patches can be fabricated in sizes ranging from less than a millimeter to a half-inch in diameter. Until now, …
Scientists from the United States and China have revealed the potential for human stem cells to provide a vaccination against colon cancer, reports a study published inthe journal Stem Cells. “Although we have only tested the protection against colon cancer, we believe that stem cells might be useful for generating an immune response against a …
If DNA-tagged molecular shapes (whether made of DNA with Rothemund staples, or Schafmeister polymers, or whatever) were allowed to self-assemble to a DNA framework, and then zinc or light (or whatever reagent) were added, then the shapes could bond quite strongly into a single large strong precise molecule. The molecule could be highly crosslinked, and …
an approach to DNA nanotube construction that provides control over their size and geometry, one rung at a time. Specifically, we constructed the first triangular and square-shaped DNA nanotubes that can be assembled in fully double-stranded or partially single-stranded forms. McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the …
Josh Hall has an interesting part 3 for his Singularity series of articles. Here he talks about the ballparking the number of researchers, developers and resources who are doing the work to advance computer hardware and Moore’s law at 300,000 people and some tens of billions of dollars. The proportion of scientists and engineers in …
Pictured is the new cloak with bump, left, and the prototype, right. (Image: Duke University) Invisibility, cloaking, superlenses, hyperlenses, super-microscopes, advanced lithography are all closer to being practically achieved. New algorithms were developed and the latest cloaking device was completed from conception to fabrication in nine days, compared to the four months required to create …
Carnival of Space week 85 is up at Cheap Astronomy. This site provided information on space elevator tether strength requirements and development status Centauri Dreams looks at interstellar mission possibilities. A longbet was made: the first true interstellar mission, targeted at the closest star to the Sun or even farther, will be launched before or …