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NIA’s ITP Confirms: Resveratrol Does Not Extend Lifespan; Limited Benefit to Rapamycin

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SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) reserachers reviewed the results of the serendipitous late-life lifespan study of rapamycin (sirolimus/Rapamune®), an inhibitor of the mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, through the NIA’s Interventions Testing Program (ITP), “a multi-institutional study investigating treatments with the potential to extend lifespan and delay disease and dysfunction in mice.” This …

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Qinshan Phase II unit 3 is China second new commercial nuclear reactor for this year and Kazatomprom now projects 17800 tons of Uranium for 2010

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1. Qinshan Phase II unit 3 has become China’s 13th nuclear unit to enter commercial operation. The 650 MWe CNP-600 pressurised water reactor was connected to the grid at the beginning of August. It had been pencilled in for commercial operation for early 2011, but has now become the second Chinese reactor to go commercial …

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Carbon nanotube thermopower achieving high specific power over seven times higher than Lithium batteries

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Carbon nanotube thermopower is achieving power discharges of 7 kilowatts per kilogram. Lithium batteries usually have 1 kilowatt per kilogram. Michael Strano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) laboratory has been interested in how carbon nanotubes can be utilized to illustrate new concepts in molecular and energy transfer. In the first example, we predict and demonstrate the …

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David Lior Interviewed by Sander Olson

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Here is the David Lior interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Lior served in the Israeli airforce for 17 years and now heads an israeli startup company called R-JET Engineering. R-JET has designed a new type of gas turbine engine that is simpler, more efficient, more reliable, and less polluting than current gas turbine engines. This …

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China Allows the Yuan to Rise

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Stocks climbed on Monday as China’s vow to allow a flexible yuan invigorated optimism in the global recovery and raised the outlook for sales in the long term at U.S. multinationals. The Indian Rupee and other asian currencies are gaining as well China’s yuan surged the …

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George Church Interviewed by SmartPlanet and Says Genome Sequencing Costs $1000 But the Price now is $10,000

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software George Church is a leading geneticist who has a Harvard University Lab and is involved with several Genetics companies. The price of a genome is a little less than $10,000. The cost is $1,000. There is a gap between the price and the cost. The gap …

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Carnival of Space 157 – Lots of International Space Development Conference Coverage

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Carnival of Space 157 is up at Out of the Cradle. This is the biggest Carnival of Space ever with over 100 links and 6 embedded videos. From Space Toilets to singing Reaching to the Moon. A lot of the International Space Development Conference (ISDC …

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Toshiba and TerraPower May Work Together on the Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor

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Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Toshiba Corp. and Bill Gates- controlled TerraPower of the U.S. may jointly develop the TerraPower Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor. Toshiba and TerraPower signed a non-disclosure agreement in November to exchange information on the design and engineering know-how, a Toshiba spokesman, Keisuke Ohmori, said by telephone in Tokyo …

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AMARSi Pan-European Project for More Advanced Robots that Learn new Skills from Co-Workers

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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 …

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Michael Anissimov on Friendly AI

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Michael is reviewing development in AI up to this point. A lot of big developments in AI in the 2000’s and in the last few months. Discusses the use of AI by corporations and military and others. Provides another perspective on Hod Lipson’s work. Reviewing the mainstream recognition of AI Wired talked about Eureqa – …

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