Giant Lunar Lava Tubes could hold one quarter of Manhattan

Lava tubes large enough to house cities could be structurally stable on the moon, according to a theoretical study presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on Tuesday (March 17). The volcanic features are an important target for future human space exploration because they could provide shelter from cosmic radiation, meteorite impacts and temperature …

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Universal Energy Access by 2030 for 65-86 billion per year

Over 20% of the world’s population still lives without electric lighting, and about 40% do not own a television. Despite increasing rhetoric on the need to improve access to clean-burning fuels and electricity globally, the number of households depending on solid fuels is increasing and the number of new electricity connections in sub-Saharan Africa is …

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Robust, Realistic, Relevant Rejuvenation with Anti-alzheimers Immunotherapy

SENS researchers have used vaccination with a human phosphorylated tau immunogen to effect the immunologic clearance of pathological tau aggregates associated with Alzheimer’s disease, in a mouse model expressing wild-type human tau. A vaccine has been effective in clearing the Alzheimer’s related junk from a mouse model. They have intervened late, months after the initial …

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Artificial Intelligence Algorithm beat crowdsourcing

How a machine learning algorithm beat the assembled masses of Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Amazon’s Mechancial Turk is the ultimate in nearly anonymous outsourcing: any task that can be completed online can be accomplished by the combination of automated marketplace and human labor. Those who sign up to complete tasks – Turkers – are paid wages …

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National Debt Beyond 77% of total GDP starts to slow economic growth

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software If a country’s public debt reaches 77 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), bad things start to happen according to a study by North Carolina State University. There is a tipping point for national debt, and if you exceed that point the amount of debt …

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Alexander the Great May have had an Ancient Approximation of Kevlar

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software This mosaic of Alexander the Great shows the king wearing linothorax — an armor made from laminated linen. Alexander the Great and his soldiers protected themselves with linothorax, a type of body armor made by laminating together layers of linen. Modern tests using the materials available …

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NASA Kepler Space Telescope has 700 Planet Candidates and Many are Earthlike and the New Estimate is 100 million habital planets in the Milky Way

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software NASA’s Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky. Kepler will continue conducting science operations until at least November 2012, searching for …

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Superconducting Metamaterials

(a) Split ring resonator for high-frequency metamaterials (outer ring diameter is 2.26mm). (b) Spiral resonator for radio frequency metamaterials (outer diameter is 6mm and has 40 turns). Metamaterials (so called because of their engineered electromagnetic properties) hold great promise for new applications in the megahertz to terahertz bands, as well as optical frequencies. Examples including …

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China Edge in Renewable and Nuclear Power

excerpt from China’s edge in renewable energy by Keith Bradsher THE NEW YORK TIMES * China’s biggest advantage might be its domestic demand for electricity, which is rising 15 percent a year. To meet demand in the coming decade, according to statistics from the International Energy Agency, China will need to add nearly nine times …

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Estimated H1N1 Deaths in the USA are over ten thousand and Adjuvants would Have Tripled Vaccine Available. Did Thousands Die From Adjuvant Decision?

All laboratory confirmed cases are an undercount of H1N1 deaths. Actual deaths are up to five times higher. Swine flu deaths at wikipedia Hurricane Katrina had 1836 confirmed deaths The Center for Disease control’s weekly update on H1N1 flu Since April 2009, CDC has received reports of 285 laboratory-confirmed pediatric deaths: 241 due to 2009 …

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Anticancer Immune Cell Identifier

Cell mates: This microfluidics chip (top) contains 1,536 minute wells, each designed to force contact between two fluorescently labeled cells. An immune cell and a tumor cell are forced into contact inside a single well of a microfluidics chip (bottom). The setup allows researchers to identify, isolate, and study immune cells with particularly potent anticancer …

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