Transterrestrial Musings and Parabolic Arc has coverage as does Hobbyspace. – Biggest problem is market demand – Near term markets – ISS resupply, propellant depots, debris cleanup, tourism can help create markets… – long-term solution: space settlement – Changes required: * no major technical breakthroughs necessary; * breakthroughs that reduce risk and cost; * end …
MIT Technology Review – Self-assembly technique could make optical metamaterials cheaply and easily for the first time Materials scientists have been puzzling over how to make metamaterials cheaply and easily. Metamaterials consist of repeating patterns of elements that interact with an electromagnetic wave so as to control and distort its path At millimetre and microwave …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Idaho Samizdat – Finland approves plan for two more reactors The BBC reports Finland’s parliament approved the construction of two new nuclear power stations by a vote of 120-72, which indicates the ruling coalition holds a majority on the issue in the 200 member chamber. …
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy * SENS is not one breakthrough and will not be a pill* one month of a series of procedures, stem cell therapies, gene therapy, small molecule drugs etc… and then repeated every 10-30 years* thorough repair and maintentance of tissues* Could have significant …
1. — Dental and tissue engineering researchers at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have harnessed the pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to generate complex, multilayer tissues that mimic human skin and the oral mucosa (the moist tissue that lines the inside of …
GM researcher Jihui Yang indicates that GM has a thermoelectric device that surrounds an exhaust pipe which can increase fuel economy in a Chevrolet Suburban by about 5 percent, a 1-mile-per-gallon improvement that would be even greater in a smaller vehicle. John Fairbanks of the DOE said thermoelectric generators should be on the verge of …
Sedentary mice that got the drug AICAR daily for four weeks were placed on a treadmill, they were able to run an average of about 550 meters, 44% farther than mice that had received only a placebo. AICAR tricks the body to react as if exercise had happened. Another drug GW1516 combined with exercise gives …
Vernor Vinge wrote about “Signs of the Singularity” However, some of the signs will be more obvious when they are actually occuring. Robin Hanson talks about the economics of the Singularity where economic growth rates accelerate 60-250 times. This site has talked about Singularity Lite where the 2-3 times increase in economic growth rate from …
MIT Technology Review looks at a process for sequencing DNA that could bring the cost down to $100 for a whole genome within 5 years (by 2012) and work on long sequences of DNA. The new method will also allow reading of long sequences of DNA. Small structural changes in DNA, such as deletions or …
More than two-thirds of all the oil discovered in America to date remains in the ground and is economically unrecoverable with current technology. About 218 billion barrels of it, a volume approaching the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia, lies at depths of less than 5,000 feet. This by-passed oil represents a huge target for the …
A mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek Rangnekar and a team of researchers who found a tumor-suppressor gene called “Par-4” in the prostate. The researchers discovered that the …