Writing in the journal Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association, scientists show in a small study that stem cell therapy can reverse heart damage in patients with enlarged hearts due to heart attacks. In addition, the benefits from the stem cell injections appear to be three times better than that offered by current …
LA Times – Japan’s Kyodo News service, citing government sources, reported that the U.S. military would deploy unmanned, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft to take images of the building that houses the No. 4 reactor to determine the status of its spent-fuel pool. In Washington, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said at a congressional hearing that …
Tokyo Electric reports the four Fukushima Daini reactors were shutdown UPDATE- Despite being shutdown -there are still preparations being made for a pressure release. Unit 1 (shut down at 2:48PM on March 11th) – Reactor is shut down and reactor water level is stable. – Offsite power is available. – Control rods are fully inserted …
Cargill has signed an agreement with SkySails GmbH and Co. KG (SkySails) to use wind power technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry. SkySails, based in Hamburg, has developed innovative, patented technology that uses a kite which flies ahead of the vessel and generates enough propulsion to reduce consumption of bunker fuel …
New research from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a more consistent and cost-effective method for making graphene Other methods make expensive custom copper sheets in an effort to get them as smooth as possible; defects in the surface cause the graphene to accumulate in unpredictable ways. Instead, Johnson’s group “electropolished” their copper foil, a common …
IAEA Power Reactor Information System lists dates for expected new reactors Kudankulam-1 PWR India 1000 MWe Gross 2011/02/28 BUSHEHR 1 PWR Iran 1000 MWE Gross 2011/05/15 Shin-Wolsong-1 PWR South Korea 1000 MWe Gross 2011/05/28 Chasnupp 2 PWR Pakistan 325 MWe Gross 2011/05/31 Shin-Kori-2 PWR South Korea 1000 MWe Gross 2011/08/01 Kusankulam-2 PWR India 1000 MWe …
The first day of the 14 Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference featured increasingly confident corporations describing their burgeoning space capabilities. Now that NASA is formally relinquishing the role of directly placing humans into orbit, the agency is focusing on general manned and unmanned space research and funding a variety of US established and startup …
Amy Chua’s paternal grandmother got rich opening factories in the Philippines. Her father, Leon Chua, Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley, inventor of Chua’s Circuit and the concept of the memristor (Hewlett-Packard is currently gearing up for mass production of them, four decades after he dreamed them up) has received nine honorary doctorates. Her …
Cryosleep is “sleeping” or “hibernating” for long periods of time in a controlled environment. Cryosleep is featured in the film Avatar, where Jake Sully and other passengers cryosleep while they travel to Pandora. While cryosleeping, or “in cryo”, a person does not age. We recently covered the real life use of magnetic fields to vibrate …
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