Medical researchers might realize a range of breakthroughs if they could look deep inside living biological cells, but existing methods for imaging either lack the desired sensitivity and resolution or require conditions that lead to cell death, such as cryogenic temperatures. Recently, however, a team of Harvard University-led researchers working on DARPA’s Quantum-Assisted Sensing and …
The cable distribution giants like Time Warner Cable and Comcast are already making a 97 percent margin on their “almost comically profitable” Internet services, according to Craig Moffet, an analyst at the Wall Street firm Bernstein Research. As Levin points out, “If you are making that kind of margin, it’s hard to improve it.” And …
World Nuclear News – All twenty of Canada’s nuclear power reactors are on line now that Point Lepreau has been reconnected to the grid after refurbishment. The reactor unit in the province of New Brunswick is in the final stages of commissioning after a troubled overhaul. It was grid-synchonised on 23 October, said owner NB …
NY Times – A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here in the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by Apple and other consumer electronics giants, …
Central Florida Professor Jayan Thomas is working with gold nanoparticles and studying their properties when they are shrunk into a small size regime called nanoclusters. Nanoclusters are on the small end and nanocrystals are on the larger end of the nanoregime. Nano clusters are so small that the laws of physics that govern the world …
Exponential Tethers for Accelerated Space Elevator Deployment (10 pages) Reel-to-Reel buildup is the absolute best choice for strengths greater than 72 GPa. At 65 GPa it is nearly identical to climber-based buildup with a three day climber interval. This is remarkable, given how close 65 GPa is to the critical strength of 63 GPa. If …
A short-term energy outlook report released by Japan’s Institute of Energy Economics estimates that if the country’s nuclear plants do not begin to restart this fall after shutting down for periodic inspections, there will be a 7.8 percent shortage in the primary energy supply by next summer and a 5.6 percent, $98 billion drop in …
The motion-sensing technology used to make Kinect what it is today is something Sony was shown four years ago. John Koller, director of hardware marking for Sony Computer Entertainment America, believes his company’s competing motion controller — the PlayStation Move — offers something Kinect can’t: motion-controlled gaming for hardcore players. While the Wii has been …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This is a followup the article about the announcement of 700 planet candidates from the first couple of months of the space telescope Kepler’s operation. BTW: NASA Watch is pissed that the co-investigator of the Kepler Mission made the first release of Kepler results at the …
Robert Freitas analyzed the statistically the challenge of life extension. Part of his analysis is shown in the table above The longest life expectancies is about 86 years for Japanese women. This is almost as good as a 10% reduction in medically preventable conditions versus an 80 year life expectancy, which would result in 88 …
Kartik Gada of Reliance GP discusses uplifting one billion people in ten years. How much can be done in a decade ? Prizes for tech to help the very poor. First prize for water treatment for the poor. I think the lifesaver bottle is what he is talking about Reprap type device for the poor. …