1. Scientists in Melbourne, Australia, used a ventilator and pump to keep pig lungs alive and “breathing” while human blood flowed in them. Experts estimated the work could lead to the first animal-human transplants within five years. The breakthrough came after scientists were able to remove a section of pig DNA, which had made the …
The Washington Post and other sources are reporting the announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran has a program of Laser Enrichment of Uranium It is believed that the laser enrichment is still at experimental quantities and that the main enrichment is still centrifuges. Here is a 14 page pdf of the history of …
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the British Heart Foundation at the University of Oxford have developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video – a new technology that is attractive for science, industry and consumer sectors alike. By combining off-the-shelf technologies found in …
1. Imperial College of London- Parts of a car’s bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a new €3.4 million project announced today. Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype material which can store and discharge electrical energy …
The Carnival of Space 139 is up at mamajoules This site provided an article on the Valkyrie antimatter propulsion spaceship design which was used in Avatar. The article also had a video tutorial on antimatter and a NASA paper on scaling up antimatter production. This site also supplied the article on What would it take …
Rigzone lists offshore drilling projects to watch in 2010 * One of West Africa’s biggest oil finds, the Jubilee field, is expected to start production sometime this year. (1.2 billion barrels of oil) – Jubilee will be developed in several phases due to the large amounts of oil discovered. Phase 1 will tie back 17 …
Michael is reviewing development in AI up to this point. A lot of big developments in AI in the 2000’s and in the last few months. Discusses the use of AI by corporations and military and others. Provides another perspective on Hod Lipson’s work. Reviewing the mainstream recognition of AI Wired talked about Eureqa – …
Nanowerks has a spotlight on the work of Dingyuan Tang from Nanyang Technological University and Professor Kian Ping Loh from National University of Singapore with the first breakthrough in using few-layer graphene as a saturable absorber for the mode locking of lasers. Graphene can be used for telecommunications applications and that its weak and universal …
A University of Utah scientist (Tim Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences) argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions – the major cause of global warming – cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. “Fundamentally, I believe the system is deterministic,” …
Tiny towers, a hundred times thinner than a human hair, with special properties: such nanostructures are produced by the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Würzburg. (Image: Monika Emmerling / Adriana Wolf) [from Nanowerk] What is special about the Würzburg quantum dot towers is that “with them it is possible to ‘fire off’ …
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 …