Atoms of a new super-heavy element — the as-yet-unnamed element 117 — have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic table. Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darmstadt, Germany, say they have created …
The Economist has a new chart of US vs China Purchasing power parity GDP based upon the new 2011 comparison of pricing If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 206 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome Atomic insights reviews the MIT floating nuclear reactor design Next Big Future – Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) should be launching their crowdsourcing effort in 2014 They need to get their Tungsten electrode and then later switch to a beryllium electrode. If successful with their …
The World Bank has a 30 page document that is the beginning of their plan to help eliminate extreme (less than $1.25 per day) poverty The document is called Prosperity for all. To end extreme poverty, the vast numbers of the poorest – those earning less than $1.25 a day – will have to decrease …
Researchers from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem and the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City biopsied cells from the women and were able to use a biodegradable scaffolds to then build the vagina in the lab. The organs were then implanted in each patient. A woman with MRKH will often not develop a uterus or …
The Chinese Academy of Sciences claims China now has “the world’s largest national effort on thorium”, employing a team of 430 scientists and engineers, a number planned to rise to 750 by 2015. This team, moreover, is headed by Jiang Mianheng, an engineering graduate of Drexel University in the United States who is the son …
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 have said they will work to grow their collective gross domestic product (GDP) by an additional two percent of world GDP or about $2 trillion over five years. This would be an increase of 10-12% over projected world GDP growth that was expected for the …
The actor and writer-director, known for playing Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters films and for directing comedies such as Groundhog Day and Caddyshack. He also wrote Animal House and Meatballs. He had characters on SCTV like Moe Green. Moe Green on SCTV SCTV Quotes Moe Green: [on Dialing for Dollars] [to camera] Moe Green: We’re …
Aviation talks about a patent for a VTOL supersonic plane. Richard Lugg is the man behind the HyperMach [Mach 4 cruise] SonicStar supersonic business jet concept. HyperMach’s design has supersonic laminar flow, plasma drag and boom reduction, and superconducting electric propulsion. Lugg’s name appears on a new US patent (8,636,241, filed in 2006) for a …
China’s GDP growth for 2013 was at 7.6%. China’s currency is ending 2013 at 6.0539 to the US dollar The exchange rate at the end of 2012 was 6.31. Official 2013 GDP will be reported in a couple of months, but if it comes in at about 58 trillion yuan then China’s economy will be …
Google announced that they’ve acquired Boston Dynamics, creators of quad- and bi-pedal robots like Big Dog and PETMAN. This is Google’s eighth robotics acquisition. Andy Rubin, stepped down as head of Google’s Android business in march after turning a little-known mobile OS into a juggernaut. “His last big bet, Android, started off as a crazy …