Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers at Concordia University in Montreal have found that bile extends the life of Yeast. (22 page pdf) The average life expectancy increased from about 20 days to 30 days. Journal Aging – Chemical genetic screen identifies lithocholic acid as an anti‐aging compound that extends yeast …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientists are seeking the recipe for regrowing a missing limb. Molecular biologist Ken Muneoka, who studies limb development and regeneration at Tulane University, in New Orleans, is exploring how a digit loss that can be repaired differs from one that can’t. Working with mice, his team …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Researchers have gotten a 1.2 million euro grant to develop nanowire solar cells with 65% efficiency. Nanowire solar cells in combination with the use of concentrated solar through mirror systems, has the potential to lead to the world’s most efficient solar cell system with a …
Petrobank Energy and Resources’ Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI) process recently passed a significant hurdle, validating a technology its backers say will not only get out more oil, but also have a smaller environmental footprint. The mainstay technology now used for in-situ bitumen is Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage — or SAGD — which uses steam …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software EU Observer – China is exploring the possibility of extending its high-speed train network as far as Europe, potentially cutting rail travel time between London and Beijing to as little as two days. Officials hope to see the project completed over the next ten years, enabling passengers …
Centre for International Governance Innovation – The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and its Implications for Safety, Security and Nonproliferation [40 page pdf] The purpose of this project was three-fold: • to investigate the likely size, shape and nature of the purported nuclear energy revival to 2030 – not to make a judgement on …
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 …
Printed Electronics World: The first cars looked like horse drawn carriages – suboptimal and using the design rules of the past. So it is with most printed electronics today. The irony of the integrated circuit – the silicon chip – is that it integrates so little. It cannot incorporate a loudspeaker, microphone, push button or …
Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world’s smallest semiconductor laser, which may have applications to the Air Force in communications, computing and bio-hazard detection. The semiconductor, called a plasmon, can focus light the size of a single protein …
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’ …
No new successful runs in day 2. Day 2 has been completed. We have lasermotive as the only team with successful prize level 1 runs in the 2 meter/second to 5 meter/second range. They had day one speed of 3.73 meters/second. Thu, Nov 05 20096:43:48 AM PST:Good morning. First up today: USST. That will complete …