This is the sixth set of highlights for Next Big Future for 2009. more will be added later this weekend. Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 33-38 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 20-32 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 13-19 Here is the link to …
calcium and vitamin D nutritional status substantially reduces all-cancer risk in postmenopausal women. This suggests and provides reinforcement for nutrigenomics. Imagine a physician or dietitian handing you a set of individualized nutritional guidelines based on your unique genetic makeup – one that could help you ward off such diseases as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. That’s …
CNN reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new H1N1 statistics. Nearly 3,900 people, including about 540 children, are believed to have died from the H1N1 flu in the first six months of the epidemic. In a normal flu season the number of deaths for children is about 100. Average US …
Scientists from the Desalination Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) recovered uranium at milligram levels from sea water using electron beam grafted amidoxime. BARC and the Commissariat a’ Energie Atomique (CEA), France, are collaborating to develop three innovative and efficient methods of uranium extraction. The first method uses resin-grafted with calixarene (a synthetic material, indecently …
Project on Social Attitudes to Road Traffic Risk in Europe (SARTRE) New technologies to enhance road safety Surveyed atttitudes to three different types of road safety systems. These were those that:• Helped the driver (aid systems),• Imposed certain behaviour (alert and intervention systems),• Could be used by the police to enforce the law (regulatory systems …
1. Nanoletters: Transfer-Free Batch Fabrication of Single Layer Graphene Transistors Full integration of graphene into conventional device circuitry would require a reproducible large scale graphene synthesis that is compatible with conventional thin film technology. We report the synthesis of large scale single layer graphene directly onto an evaporated copper film. A novel fabrication method was …
This is a follow up to a previous report on Rice University using strong acid to process carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale. MIT Technology Review reports on a new method for assembling carbon nanotubes has been used to create fibers hundreds of meters long. Individual carbon nanotubes are strong, lightweight, and electrically conductive, and …
2 of the 37 first round ARPA E projects were categorized as waste heat capture and one of the vehicle technologies was GMs lightweight car exhaust heat recovery Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery (LighTER) System General Motors R&D received a $2.7 million federal award Monday that will help build a prototype using Shape Memory Alloy, or …
Department of Energy’s ARPA-E selects 37 projects to pursue breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Five of the 37 Projects are for Carbon CaptureCarbon capture …
New Energy And Fuel reports on a new study which says that previous studies that tarred ethanol as an environmental villain were flawed because they looked at outdated corn and ethanol production techniques. The more modern ethanol plants – which account for about 60% of U.S. production and will account for 75% by the end …
Silicon on silk: This clear silk film, about one centimeter squared, has six silicon transistors on its surface. These flexible devices can be implanted in mice like the one in this image without causing any harm, and the silk degrades over time. The orange liquid on the hair is a disinfectant used during the surgery. …