Many in the media have been claiming that the race for the Democratic nomination is over. It likely may be, but it could be far closer than is currently believed. It could still turn the in favor of Hillary Clinton. Realclearpolitics makes the scenario where Hillary makes the race far closer with wins in West …
I had previously covered the PETA $1 million prize for invitro (test tube / factory meat from stem cells) meat. PETA prize for chicken meat that can pass a fried chicken taste test and be sold in ten states commercially Many people have an initial reaction that invitro meat would be yucky and they do …
Carnival of Space week 53 is up at spacecynic Nextbigfuture supplied its article about new lasers that are 100 times faster and able to improve the sensitivity of earthlike planet detection by one hundred times Colony Worlds talks about whether Mercury is better than Mars for colonization Centauri Dreams talks about life propogating through the …
Previously nextbigfuture has discussed the new family of superconducting materials based on iron and arsenic compounds The Christian Science Monitor indicates some experts say they’ve seen hints suggesting that these new materials should post impressive magnetic-field numbers soon. The iron in these new superconductors could allow some applications such as wires and electronics and more …
People talk about nuclear power being deadly and dangerous. They can list some radiation leaks and spills.Where are the deaths in those incidents ? How much is the radiation above background levels ? Did the leak have more radiation than an equal amount of wine or seawater ? With my coal examples below plenty of …
Life often modifies its genetic material without changing the letters of the genetic code. One of the main ways this is done is through the addition of a chemical unit called a methyl group to a gene. Joseph Ecker of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California and colleagues have used a new method to …
There is news related to my articles on industry progress towards meat produced by stem cells in factories with a goal of ground meat products for supermarkets within 5 years. UPDATE: H/T to Onsingularity.com The PETA prize is meaningless because the winner has to be selling their invitro grown meat in 10 states and it …
MIT Technology Review looks at a process for sequencing DNA that could bring the cost down to $100 for a whole genome within 5 years (by 2012) and work on long sequences of DNA. The new method will also allow reading of long sequences of DNA. Small structural changes in DNA, such as deletions or …
Current and proposed car fuel efficiency standards from around the world. UPDATE: The Dept of Transportation Secretary Peters Proposes 25 Percent Increase in Fuel Efficiency Standards Over 5 Years for Passenger Vehicles, Light Trucks. Fuel efficiency standards for both passenger vehicles and light trucks would increase by 4.5 percent per year over the five-year period …
Canada has had several new natural gas finds that seem to more than double the 57 trillion cf of reserves previously recorded. Plus some of the oilsand methods are burning some of the oilsands to get the rest flowing (THAI/Capris) Bruce power has applied to build 4 nuclear reactors in Alberta (4000MW). First power could …
My guess at what the USGS will report as the recoverable oil in the Bakken formation tomorrow. Well my guess was far to optimistic. The USGS 2008 figure was 3.65 billion barrels of oil for the US part of the Bakken formation. Stackfrac horizontal drilling that is available today could recover up to 15% of …