The sensor consists of a reservoir containing MRSw particles enclosed by a size-exclusion membrane. T2 changes are produced when analytes diffuse across the membrane and initiate particle aggregation. During about 30 percent of all heart attacks, the patient experiences no symptoms. However, unmistakable signs of the attack remain in the bloodstream for days. MIT researchers, …
In 2010, 57.4 million Chinese traveled out of China to see the world and to spend money on outbound tourism.For 2015, the China National Tourism Administration CNTA forecasts that 100 million travelers spending US$100 billion will turn China into the worldwide No. 1 international tourism source market. In 2010, the number of domestic tourists reached …
The U.S. and Britain launched more than 110 Tomahawk missiles at more than 20 targets. The strikes targeted specifically surface-to-air missile sites and radar detectors that are part of the Libyan military’s air defense infrastructure, said Vice Admiral William E. Gortney, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. Thousands of Libyans packed into Mr Gaddafi’s …
CNN – Even as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the ultimate goal for the U.S. was to see Libya’s president cede power, a senior administration official says the U.N.-mandated no-fly zone and military action to support it would not necessarily last until Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi steps down. The purpose of the no-fly zone, …
Fact Sheet: Used Nuclear Fuel Storage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Used nuclear fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is stored in seven pools (one at each of the six reactors, plus a shared pool) and in a dry container storage facility (containing nine casks). Sixty percent of the used fuel …
US deficit for the month of February, 2011 was $223 billion The U.S. federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2007 was about $161 billion, or 1.2% of gross domestic product and the deficit was $248 billion in fiscal 2006. Debt to GDP level from information provided by the Congressional budget office. The Director of the …
Designed for use in an implantable eye-pressure monitor, University of Michigan researchers developed what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale computing system.Credit: Greg Chen A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients is believed to contain the first complete millimeter-scale computing system. The same researchers recently developed a millimeter scale energy harvesting …
Saudi Arabia-based Kingdom Holding Company, headed by Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, is going ahead with its plan to build a 1.6-kilometre-high tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Report from October, 2010 The mile high tower has been covered here before Despite an economic slowdown in much of the world and falling …
Researchers from the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nano-devices (CRANN) at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and the University of Oxford in the UK have discovered how to split layered materials to give atom thin nano-sheets. Using these sheets, they have created a range of novel two-dimensional nano-materials possessing chemical and electronic properties …
Westinghouse has announced a new 200 MW Small Modular Reactor It is only a pressure water reactor so it is not as advanced as some other reactor proposals but it could in theory be more easily licensed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). However, the NRC is dysfunctional and has not certified any new …
Matrix movie quote – Morpheus: I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it. Professor Allan Snyder and Richard Chi from Sydney University’s Centre of the Mind said subjects wearing the cap were able to acquire new modes of thinking …