Jilin Province in China has offered to build a railway to Vladivostok for Russia’s Far East Region of Primorsky Krai. It would be the first cross-border high-speed rail link between the two countries and Russia’s major Pacific port. “We have an idea to construct a high-speed railway to Vladivostok. In August we will open a …
Two NASA NIAC projects for improving space telescopes. 1. Aperture: A Precise Extremely large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements Northwestern University, teamed with the University of Illinois (UIUC), proposes to develop a game changing technology for large deployable optical quality mirrors. The innovation combines the concept of a flying magnetic write head with a magnetic …
The Wing Ship Technology Corporation, a South Korean company, is trying to revive the wing in ground effect idea. South Korea’s armed forces have already agreed to buy some and the firm says it hopes to announce its first commercial sales (to an oil-and-gas firm and a Mediterranean ferry company) shortly. In Korea, Wing Ship …
Last week, central China’s Wuhan City eased its household curbs to allow older college graduates working in the city to settle locally, a move expected to attract 100,000 graduates, hopefully boosting property purchases. Previously, south China’s Haikou City allowed five family members to register their household locally if one purchases a house with a space …
Located in the Central Business District of Beijing, China, the 300 meters high tower by Henn Architects at the south facade addresses the street, while the secondary entrance on the west facade relates itself to the park. The tower has a constant, efficient, square floor plate. The façade strategy of the building is simple, elegant …
Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm and he gives his views on the situation with Russia and the Ukraine. 1) The West’s direct response. Ian Bremmer sees basically no response just like when Russia invaded Georgia. 2) International complications from Russia. Russia can …
Growing not just human organs but organs from your own skin cells inside pigs in Japan for the ultimate solution to organ replacement. Prof Nagashima creates “a-pancreatic” embryos. Inside the white pig embryo, the gene that carries the instructions for developing the animal’s pancreas has been “switched off”. The Japanese team then introduce stem cells …
The problem that I have with the Tokamak fusion project is that it is classified and justified as a technological moonshot but would NOT be transformative or even better than incremental improvement of nuclear fission or even possibly scaled up solar technology. The Tokamak is targeting a 35000 ton power generator that would not be …
Singapore researchers came up with the one-step method to grow and transfer high-quality graphene on silicon and other stiff substrates. This promises the use of graphene in high-value areas where no technique currently exists to grow and transfer graphene with minimal defects for use in semiconductors. Prof Loh, who is also a Principal Investigator with …
Dr. Crystal Dilworth has a fireside chat with space entrepreneur Elon Musk and inventor and computational neuroscientist Philip Low to discover how they are changing the world and why. Special thank you to David Franzen for hosting this late night chat at the Canadian Consul General’s Residence in Los Angeles. Elon Musk compared the biological …
A new moon might have just popped out of Saturn’s rings. Images from a NASA spacecraft show a disturbance along the rings’ edge that is probably being caused by an unseen object stirring up the icy bands. The region has since quietened down, suggesting that we may have witnessed the birth of a small moon. …