Human Exploration Beyond LEO by the End of the Decade: Designs for Long-Duration “Gateway” Habitats (22 page presentation) EELV for Use for Demanding Missions – 11 page presentation How can EELV’s support launch of demanding missions? –Such as deployment of an Earth-Moon Lagrange point habitat If a heavy-lift launch vehicle is available this decade, an …
University of Maryland researchers have made a breakthrough in the use of visible light for making tiny integrated circuits. Though their advance is probably at least a decade from commercial use, they say it could one day make it possible for companies like Intel to continue their decades long tread of making ever smaller, faster, …
The Chinese Academy of Sciences started the first one of the strategic leader in science and technology projects, “the future of advanced nuclear fission energy – nuclear energy, thorium-based molten salt reactor system” project was officially launched. The scientific goal is to use 20 years or so, developed a new generation of nuclear energy systems, …
By Joseph Friedlander One of my great interests for many years has been the quantities and ratio of the natural biological world (excepting geology) to the works of Man. In other words, how much Biomass vs Technomass. I recently read a paper by Richard Cathcart that piqued my old curiosity so here are the results… …
Sossina Haile and William Chueh next to the benchtop thermochemical reactor used to screen materials for implementation on the solar reactor. This is a follow up to prior coverage on this project to make fuel from sunlight California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are using a common metal most famously found in self-cleaning ovens to change …
China has taken a major step toward commissioning its first aircraft carrier by largely completing the restoration of a derelict ship purchased from Ukraine The restoration includes all living and working compartments, engines, navigation systems and power-generating equipment, Hong Kong-based Kanwa Asian Defense magazine said. Additional work is still needed on the elevator and flight …
The International Exascale Software Project (IESP) Roadmap (85 pages) Over the last twenty years, the open source community has provided more and more software on which the world’s High Performance Computing (HPC) systems depend for performance and productivity. The community has invested millions of dollars and years of effort to build key components. But although …
Jeopardy! will take two of its most popular former contestants — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter to compete against Watson, a computer program developed by IBM’s artificial intelligence team. UPDATE: Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram and others discuss the importance and the context of what Watson on Jeopardy means for AI and society 0. The Atlantic …
Friedwardt Winterberg has an improvement on a method to generate the ultrafast jets that are needed for impact nuclear fusion. It is shown that in contrast to the electric pulse power driven implosion of a single conical wire array, the implosion of a nested conical wire array with opposite alternate opening angles can lead to …
The 2011 Asia outlook is clouded by China’s growing clout, the volatile situation on the Korean peninsula and corruption scandals in India 1. Currency tension between China and the United States. 2. How China uses its regional influence and the maritime territorial disputes with several countries 3. China’s inflation looks like it will significantly exceed …
Blagosklonny MV. has published in the Cell Cycle journal a proposal to lengthen lifespan using the mTor pathway Although we do not know everything about aging, we now know enough to start its pharmacologic suppression using clinically approved drugs. Aging turns out to be driven by sensing-signaling pathways (such as the mTOR pathway). Given that …