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University of Cambridge Breakthrough Could Lower the Cost of Superconducting Devices and Increase Current Capacity

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A new approach to producing high-temperature superconductors could drive down the cost of MRI scanners and protect infrastructure during energy surges. Engineers at the University of Cambridge used new techniques to manufacture high-temperature superconducting materials, producing samples that can carry record quantities of electrical current for …

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Optical Flow Switching from MIT Could Make the Internet 100 to 1000 times Faster

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A group of MIT researchers led by Vincent Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has demonstrated a new way of organizing optical networks that, in most cases, would eliminate converting optical signals to electrical ones for processing, then convert …

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China Property Bubble and Economic Future

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software The property price numbers from NBS (China’s National Bureau of Statistics_ are becoming surreal. In February the bureau announced that housing prices in 70 medium- and large-sized cities increased about 1.5% last year. The increase, we were told, was a five-year low. This was too much …

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Boeing Completes Preliminary Design of 100 Kilowatt Free Electron Laser Weapon System and Eventually Megawatt Class Lasers

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Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Boeing has a complete 100 kilowatt free electron laser (FEL) design which will operate by passing a beam of high-energy electrons through a series of powerful magnetic fields, generating an intense emission of laser light that can disable or destroy targets The Boeing news release does not …

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Indian Economic Forecast for 2014 and up to 2030 and Indian Budgets for Space and Defence

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Economy Watch has a forecast for the Indian Economy in 2014 GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) 8.079 % GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) INR 101,695.91 Billion. GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) US$ 1,908.33 Billion GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) INR 41,928.71 GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) INR 79,043.24 GDP Per …

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Sound Proof Panels Made of Latex and Buttons – Practical Application of Metamaterial Physics

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Metamaterial sound proofing from materials less than an inch thick would be as good as 4 foot thick walls for soundproofing. People outside a metamaterial sound proofed room – no one will hear you screaming inside Applied Physics Letters – Acoustic metamaterial panels for sound attenuation in the 50–1000 Hz regime The Hong Kong University …

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Memristor, Memcapacitor and Meminductor Research Update

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In mid-2009, research was showing that memristors and memcapacitors are similar to synapses and can be made into neural networks There is an updated version of the paper Experimental demonstration of associative memory with memristive neural networks Abstract—Synapses are essential elements for computation and information storage in both real and artificial neural systems. An artificial …

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Epigenetic therapy

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Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, other illnesses. Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. They’re identical twins, with identical DNA. Their varying traits are controlled by a mediator between nature and nurture …

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Stem Cells Help Bone Healing

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A novel technology involving use of stem cells, developed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers, has been applied to provide better and rapid healing for patients suffering from complicated bone fractures. The technology, involving isolation of the stem cells from bone marrow, was developed by Dr. Zulma Gazit, Dr. Gadi Pelled, Prof. Dan Gazit and …

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LaserMotive has successfully qualified for the $900,000 Space Elevator Prize

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Picture caption: An earlier picture of the laser motive climber. Mostly solar cells that absorb the laser light that power a motor that climbs the cable. On the right is a screenshot of Lasermotive’s climber from the ustream video 3:00:39 PM PST:LaserMotive Climber is climbing! Live at http://ustre.am/4mZA3:10:58 PST:First climb was 4 minutes, 2 seconds …

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