Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A model of the implantable bioartificial kidney shows the two-stage system. Thousands of nanoscale filters remove toxins from the blood, while a BioCartridge of renal tubule cells mimics the metabolic and water-balance roles of the human kidney. UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a link to the iPad technical specifications The Samsung galaxy tab specifications and official information is here Phone Samsung Galaxy Tab Apple iPad Price no official $629 (16GB), $729 (32 GB) price $829 (64GB) Expected $200-300 16 GB, 32 GB OS Android 2.2 iOS4 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. DARPA has the iFAB program to develop “foundry-style manufacturing capability.” By which they mean microchip foundries – the generic, build-any-chip-for-any-designer factories that churn out microchips for every application you can imagine, and which are the dominant mode of manufacture for most of the silicon in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made to order for a wide range of scientific and consumer applications. TCOs – materials that combine transparency and conductivity, qualities that are not usually found together …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A team of physicists has achieved ultrafast “switching” time in an operation central to quantum information processing, changing the state of a single trapped ion in less than 50 picoseconds (10-12, or trillionths of a second) with more than 99 percent reliability. That is the fastest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BBC News reports that when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered mummified skeletal remains lying in his bed. Mr Kato may have been dead for 30 years according to Japanese authorities. The family had received 9.5 million yen ($109,000: £70,000) …
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 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. China is buying unprecedented amounts of uranium, signaling that prices are poised to rebound after three years of declines. The nation may purchase about 5,000 metric tons this year, more than twice as much as it consumes, building stockpiles for new reactors, according to Thomas …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Carnival of Space 161 is up at Habitation Intention Centauri Dreams looked at the cost of an interstellar probe Back in the late 1960s, Freeman Dyson went to work on the question of how much an interstellar probe might cost. Extrapolating from nuclear pulse propulsion and …
Researchers have created a flexible graphene sheet with silver electrodes printed on it (top) that can be used as a touch screen when connected to control software on a computer (bottom). Credit: Byung Hee Hong, SKKU. 2. Researchers at Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University, in Korea, have produced a continuous layer of pure graphene the size …