HPCWire (by Steve Wallach, Chief Scientist, Co-Founder, and Director, Convey Computer)- Building computer systems of any sort, but especially very large systems, is somewhat akin to the process an apartment real-estate developer goes through. The developer has to have an idea of what the final product will look like, its compelling features, and the go-to-market …
Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have developed a new method of repairing bone using synthetic bone graft substitute material, which combined with gene therapy, can mimic real bone tissue and has potential to regenerate bone in patients who have lost large areas of bone from either disease or trauma. Nanoparticles …
Researchers from the NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI) have developed the world’s first energy-storage membrane. It is claimed to hold 20 times the charge of a traditional lithium ion battery and to be ten times cheaper How fast can this technology with superior charasteristics be scaled up to large scale commercialization ? This was …
China will make nuclear energy the foundation of its power-generation system in the next 10 to 20 years, said a senior official China will increase generation capacity by 2 billion kilowatts (kW) (2000 GW) during that period, with as much as 300 million kW (300 GW) coming from nuclear power, said Shi Lishan, deputy director …
Nvidia Corp.’s Kal-El quad-core SoC will emerge November 9 in Asustek Computer’s Transformer Prime tablet, Asus CEO Jonney Shih has revealed. Kal-El, the codename for the third generation of Nvidia’s Tegra mobile processor, was due out by the end of summer or early September, but will now emerge early next month in Asus’ new 10-inch, …
Amory Lovins (or a staffer at the Rocky Mountain Institute) has placed a lengthy boiler plate anti-nuclear energy comment which summarizes Amory Lovins argument against nuclear power at Atomic Insights. Claim 1. Nuclear power continues to die of an incurable attack of market forces. Amory Lovins was claiming that nuclear power would die back in …
The United States Bureau of Economic Statistics estimates the current-dollar GDP — the market value of the nation’s output of goods and services — increased 3.5 percent, or $129.0 billion, in the second quarter to a level of $14,996.8 billion. In the first quarter, current-dollar GDP increased 3.1 percent, or $112.8 billion. China raised its …
1. Universe Today had full coverage of the final launch of the space shuttle Space shuttle Atlantis has launched for the final time, for the last mission of the space shuttle program. The crew of four is heading to the International Space Station. Launch occurred at 10:29 EDT (15:29 UTC), and despite an unfavorable weather …
We had looked at a recent McKinsey study of which countries will add the most urban GDP growth by 2025 In terms of urban GDP growth from 2007-2025 by country 1. China 17.1 trillion 2. USA 5.9 trillion 3. India 2.0 trillion 4. Brazil 1.5 trillion 5. Mexico 0.87 trillion 6. S. Korea 0.82 trillion …
Most of the world is dependent on China to supply rare earths as key raw materials used in many of the latest technologies from military hardware to electric cars, but China’s Ministry of Commerce is warning that its massive supply of rare earths could be exhausted in just 15 – 20 years. Although China accounts …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new technique might soon enable cosmologists to map the universe even when they can’t pick out individual galaxies. If it works, researchers would be able to probe the structure of 500 times as much of the universe as they have studied so far. * scientists …