NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found 1202 possible exoplanets. The expectation is 90% of those will be confirmed. The Kepler telescope surveys only one four-hundredth of the sky, the numbers extrapolated to some 20,000 habitable-zone planets within 3,000 light-years of Earth. Of the new candidates, 68 are one-and-a-quarter times the size of the Earth or …
1. Kazakhstan’s annual uranium production has doubled since 2008, according to preliminary uranium production results released by national atomic company Kazatomprom. The 17,803 tU produced by Kazakhstan in 2010 was nearly 30% up on the 14,020 tU produced in 2009 and double the amount produced in 2008. In the field of uranium conversion, Kazatomprom notes …
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DARPA is working on glasses that will endow the user with zoom vision, various forms of nightsight, and act as a heads-up display besides. Perhaps best of all, the proposed kit would also offer “full sphere awareness” – that is, eyes in the back of your head. It is the goals of the DARPA Soldier …
Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves, in live animals. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/neural-regeneration-1012.html Engineers at MIT have now used a new microchip technology to rapidly test potential drugs on tiny worms called C. elegans, which are often used in studies of the nervous system. Using the new technology, associate professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his colleagues …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Techcrunch’s Adam Rifkin makes the case that Facebook can become bigger in revenue than Google is today within 5 year. Facebook already passed Google for page views. Alvin Wang points out – Currently, Google makes fourteen times as much revenue per impression as Facebook. Currently, Facebook …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Two Case Western Reserve University researchers are building implants made of diamond and flexible polymer that are designed to identify chemical and electrical changes in the brain of patients suffering from neural disease, or to stimulate nerves and restore movement in the paralyzed. The work of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The basic idea of Quicklaunch is that you launch a projectile from a cannon at 6 kilometers per second using compressed hydrogen gas. On a conventional rocket, the payload fraction is about 3%, whereas with our concept the payload is more than 20%. For just $12 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reversible adhesion stamp can vary its adhesion strength by 1,000 times. Researchers were also successful at printing layers of electronics, that may lead to the development of complex devices in the future. Four pyramids on the stamp press firmly against the surface of an electronic device, …
Richard Varvill, technical director and one of the founders of Reaction Engines believes the Skylon spaceplane project is now reaching its final stages. After decades of withdrawn government support and huge technical hurdles, the tide has turned in favour of high-tech manufacturing and, more importantly, human space travel. A recent study into the Skylon’s ability …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Research is closing in on the next-generation of ultra-high-density magneto-optical storage devices that could store more than 6,000 Terabits (6 petabits) of data, more than 70 times the contents of the entire U.S. Library of Congress, on a single 5-inch disc. Yet the vast storage amount …