A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University. The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by “ripple power”; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath. The prototype moves at speeds of about a centimeter per second, but improvements …
The International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) was released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) presents updated projections for world energy markets through 2035. Worldwide energy consumption grows by 53 percent between 2008 and 2035 in the Reference case, with much of the increase driven by strong economic growth in the developing nations especially …
Michael Rae, SENS researcher provides highlights of the 40th American Aging Association (AGE) Conference The preconference “Late-onset intervention against aging: Tools, approaches, impact was organized by Aubrey de Grey. Prospects for Retarding Aging Some of the opening-day sessions were devoted to those few interventions based on perturbing metabolic determinants of aging to have demonstrated some …
Some of the founders and leading lights in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science called for a return to the style of research that marked the early years of the field, one driven more by curiosity rather than narrow applications. This will be a difficult thing to achieve because success with narrow applications …
A group of Penn scientists working across disciplines—in this case engineering and medicine—has developed a novel way to allow patients to re-grow cartilage in their own bodies, using their own cells, directly in the site that has been damaged through injury or disease Penn Engineering Associate Professor Jason Burdick says the breakthrough represents a new …
China has been discussing and investing in innovation goals and likely investing $1.5 trillion in seven strategic industries. I will compare the large investment in seven strategic industries to the corporate strategy of companies like Cisco versus companies that perform early stage research. The value-added output of the seven strategic industries together account for about …
During its one-year mission, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mapped the entire sky in infrared light. Among the multitudes of astronomical bodies that have been discovered by the NEOWISE portion of the WISE mission are 20 comets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA NASA’s NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, …