Last year, Saul Villeda, then at Stanford University in California, and colleagues showed they could boost the growth of new cells in the brains of old mice by giving them a blood infusion from young mice. New work presented at Neuroscience 2012 showed that old mice that had received young blood plasma performed better in …
(Reuters) Japanese mobile operator Softbank Corp said it will buy about 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp, the third-largest U.S. carrier, for $20.1 billion – the most a Japanese firm has spent on an overseas acquisition. The deal, announced by Softbank’s billionaire founder and chief Masayoshi Son and Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse at a …
The EIA paper presents average levelized costs for generating technologies that are brought on line in 2017 as represented in the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) for the Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (AEO2012) reference case. Natural gas is the cheapest (if there is no carbon capture and storage) and then hydroelectric. There are also regional …
Customized ink jet printers used to make printable lasers. Away of printing lasers using everyday inkjet technology has been created by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The development has a wide range of possible applications, ranging from biomedical testing to laser arrays for display A laser is a characteristically “pure” form of light, occupying …
Two thirds of the rural population in developing countries are without electricity. This leaves limited options for lighting. Many turn to kerosene or paraffin oil. It is estimated that 88 billion liters of kerosene are burned purely for light. One liter of kerosene is estimated to produce 3kg CO2 when burnt. Research has shown that …
Lawrence Livermore National Lab – Despite its reputation as an inert material, nanostructured gold is a very promising candidate as a catalyst, optic, sensor, energy harvester as well as an energy storer. The Laboratory’s Juergen Biener and Arne Wittstock and colleagues have explored the field by editing a Royal Society of Chemistry book “Nanoporous Gold: …
Nature Scientific Reports – Scalable circuits of organic logic and memory are realized using all-additive printing processes. A 3-bit organic complementary decoder is fabricated and used to read and write non-volatile, rewritable ferroelectric memory. The decoder-memory array is patterned by inkjet and gravure printing on flexible plastics. Simulation models for the organic transistors are developed, …
The Diplomat tries to make a case that China’s Rise peaked in 2008. (BTW – thediplomat site is not visible from some common domain name servers.) This article was heavily discussed on reddit. They list of issues which they argue will prevent China from continuing to outperform economically or to otherwise rise in power are: …
Berkeley Labs – A technology that would enable low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. This technology opens the door to the use of …
Bismarck Tribune – Continental — a leader in prognosticating Bakken oil reserves — said it now believes there is as much as 27 billion to 45 billion barrels of oil recoverable from the Bakken based on production from two previously untapped bench zones in the resource. Whiting’s chief executive officer, Jim Volker, said his company …
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its new suite of technologies that enable ultra-high-speed elevators to travel faster than 1,000 meters per minute, or 60 kph, with enhanced efficiency, comfort and safety. The technologies will be incorporated in the world’s fastest elevators, including those developed by Mitsubishi Electric for the 632-meter Shanghai Tower under construction in Shanghai, …