Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Namibia’s Uranium production improved by 9.9 percent during the second quarter of 2010 compared to the preceding quarter. Similarly, year-on-year, it rose by 17.7 percent. The demand for uranium continued to be high, emanated mostly from China, India and South Korea, coupled with planned nuclear …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Energy-Efficient Computing for Extreme Scale Science (10 page pdf) updates the research to making multi-petaflop and exaflop scale systems using Tensilica chips A straw design based on 2008 Tensilica chips could theoretically achieve 200 petaflops peak with $75 million in cost and 3 megawatts of power. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software An optical nanostructure based on single-crystal nanowire diamond may be used as an efficient source of single photons. One exciting application at the forefront of diamond research is in quantum science. Nonclassical (single-photon) light sources based on individual color centers in diamond, most notably the nitrogen-vacancy …
1. The Sanmen 1 nuclear plant reached a milestone where they completed the lift and setting of the containment vessel bottom head (CVBH) of Unit 1. The Sanmen AP1000 should be the first AP1000 reactor when it is completed about Oct 2013. 2. South Korea aims to export 80 nuclear power reactors – worth some …
1. Telegraph UK, researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. (H/T Instapundit) But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it. “We started our research seeking …
Science Fiction author and blogger Charlie Stross has an article about the myth of the starship Yes, I think human interstellar exploration (and yes, maybe even colonization) might be possible, after a fashion. But to get there, we’re going to have to master at least two entire technological fields that don’t yet exist, even before …
One person in a million has natural myostatin inhibition genes Work was done on Macaque monkeys. Commonly scientific work is on rhesus macaques. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have shown that a gene delivery strategy that produces follistatin — a naturally occurring protein that inhibits myostatin, a growth factor expressed specifically in skeletal muscle — …
Brave New Climate reviews the work of Mark Z. Jacobson (Professor, Stanford) and Mark A. Delucchi (researcher, UC Davis) entitled “A path to sustainable energy by 2030” (p 58 – 65 Scientific American Nov 2009; they call it WWS: wind, water or sunlight). Jacobson and Delucchi argue that, by the year 2030:Wind, water and solar …
Physorg reports that the Lancet in an article to be published Friday in the medical journal Lancet (prestigious medical journal), the researchers write that the process of aging may be “modifiable.” The Lancet is saying there is no fixed ceiling on human longevity. Lancet Abstract: Ageing populations: the challenges ahead If the pace of increase …
Dan Yurman has an updated interview of the CEO of Hyperion Power Generation. John (Grizz) Deal is an expressive driver of an entrepreneurial start-up that has spun out unique nuclear reactor technology from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It’s not a conventional reactor with fuel rods and cooling systems. Instead, it is a 25 …
Novamente is working on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the above is an architecture. More recent AGI work is the Opencog project In 2009, opencog presendted AGI Preschool: A Framework for Evaluating Early-Stage Human-like AGIs. The toddler is the second of five AGI stages. Memristors Patents and Current Developments Williams’ solid-state memristors can be combined …