Rapid cooling and controlling how blood flow and temperature is restored could allow people to be safely oxygen deprived for hours instead of four minutes. In pigs they have restored after 30 minutes. It is not oxygen deprivation which kills cells it is the uncontrolled restoration of oxygen. It can also be used to solve …
Culham Science Centre’s Reaction Engines Ltd has carried out successful tests on a revolutionary rocket engine for its Skylon vehicle. The space plane will be able to reach speeds of more than 19,000 miles an hour – which would cut the journey time from London to Australia to just four hours. Reaction Engines hopes to …
Arxiv – The creation of wave-dynamic illusion functionality is of great interests to various scientific communities, which can potentially transform an actual perception into the pre-controlled perception, thus empowering unprecedented applications in the advanced-material science, camouflage, cloaking, optical and/or microwave cognition, and defense security, etc. By using the space transformation theory and engineering capability of …
Usually, results from a new study help scientists inch their way toward an answer whether they are battling a health problem or are on the verge of a technological breakthrough. Once in a while, those results give them a giant leap forward. In a preliminary study in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), …
Some have claimed that the Sky City 220 story skyscraper project was cancelled (instead of just delayed). 1. In the China Daily site, has an interview with Wang Shuguang, general manager of subsidiary Broad USA. “The idea is to set up franchises anywhere such as the United States, using the techniques of making sustainable prefabricated …
This site has discussed the normal technology adoption cycle which takes years to decades for something new to scale up would normally provide some time for acclimation. People have coping mechanisms to prevent psychological shock and to help them prevent admitting that their world view was wrong. People will also not bother to be precise …
Ray Kurzweil confirmed that he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining Google as Director of Engineering this Monday, December 17,” said Kurzweil. “I’ve been interested in technology, and machine learning in particular, for a long time: when I …
Intel Atom S1200 server system on-chip hits lower-power levels (6 watts), and includes key features such as error code correction, 64-bit support, and virtualization technologies required for use inside data centers. The Intel Atom processor S1200 is shipping today to customers with recommended customer price starting at $54 in quantities of 1,000 units. Intel introduced …
EETimes has FBR actual and estimated sales statistics for tablets for 2012 and 2013. Apple will still maintain 55%-60% market share in tablets in 2012 and 2013. 1. Apple iPad 2. Apple iPad Mini The next most popular tablets are 3. Kindle Fire (HD) 4. Google Nexus 5. Samsung Galaxy 6. Barnes and Noble Nook …
Foreign Affairs Magazine – The Broken BRICS by Ruchir Sharma. Ruchir is head of Emerging Markets and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and the author of Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles. I think that Ruchir is overly pessimistic about China. I do agree that many other nations have to …
Reaction Engines has declared their revolutionary pre-cooler technology a success. The Sabre engine could take a plane to five times the speed of sound and an altitude of 25 km, about 20 percent of the speed and altitude needed to reach orbit. For space access, the engines would then switch to rocket mode to do …