The National Geographic Deep Sea Challenge site proclaims This is the New Age of Exploration. National Geographic Explorer James Cameron Embarks on a Dive to the Ocean’s Deepest Point. The latest news is here but there is not yet an official announcement of a dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench So far there …
Business Week – China’s February home prices fell in more than half of the 70 cities monitored by the government with only three cities recording gains as the country maintained curbs on the property market. Prices fell in 45 cities last month as compared with January, while 22 cities were unchanged, the National Statistics Bureau …
Wall Street Journal – Doctors at Yale University here implanted in Angela’s chest in August a bioabsorbable tube that is designed to dissolve over time. The tube was seeded with cells, including stem cells, that had been harvested from Angela’s bone marrow. Since then, the doctors say, the tube has disappeared, leaving in its place …
An EPFL invention has drastically reduced the cost of producing biochips, which are used to measure glucose and drug levels in the blood and to detect biomolecules and cellular signals. This development could make it possible to carry out analyses that are currently considered too expensive, and thus boost many areas of research. Biochips, used …
1. Business Insider – Nomura has revising their 2012 China GDP growth forecast up to 8.2% from 7.9% for three reasons. First, economic momentum slowed sharply in the first two months of 2012, but was still slightly better than we expected. In particular, fixed asset investments (FAI) grew by 21.5% y-o-y versus our previous estimate …
Economic Times of India – This is a follow up on the Tata Group flat-pack house that costs just $700 and can be built in a week. The Tata group, maker of the $2,500 Nano car, said that the 20-square-metre (215-square-foot) home comes from a pre-fabricated kit that includes doors, windows and a roof. “We …
Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera such as Microsoft’s Kinect The system, being developed by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory …
Australian researcher are making more reliable Global Positioning Systems (GPS) using camera technology and mathematical algorithms would make navigating a far cheaper and simpler task. “At the moment you need three satellites in order to get a decent GPS signal and even then it can take a minute or more to get a lock on …
A tunnel beneath the Yellow River, China’s second longest, and related water gates and ditches have been completed for the eastern route of the country’s giant south-north water diversion project. China is on target to begin transferring water from the Yangtze River Basin to Hebei, Shandong, and Tianjin by 2013. Water diverted from the Yangtze, …
HyperV Technologies is trying to develop minirailguns for the world’s first commercially viable fusion reactor technology. Their research could result in the development of a controlled hot fusion reactor that is scalable to provide between 100 MW and 2,000 MW of clean base load electric power. There was a 20 page presentation from June of …
1. Deregulate the Atom – Uncovering the Truth about the Threat of Nuclear Proliferation by DV82XL Robert Gauthier more commonly known as DV82XL shares his thoughts on the misconceptions about proliferation. It is said with some truth that the military always prepares for the last war, and this was the case with nuclear weapons. The …