The USA is threatening 27% tariffs against China to force China to more quickly raise the value of the Yuan by 15 to 40% This supports my thesis that China’s economy will the pass the USA by 2020 15% appreciation in the yuan would move it from 7.6 to 1 US dollar to 6.6 to …
The New Scientist reports progress to 3D holograms of molecules Image quality improves significantly as the number of computer processing iterations increases from 0 (left) to 500 (right) (Image: The American Physical Society) For years physicists have grappled with a kind of double vision that has made using holography difficult. The process results in an …
Here is a post on a survey of average broadband speed in different countries Japan and Canada have significantly higher broadband download speeds—61Mbps and 7.6Mbps. Hong Kong is not on the chart but is also a lot faster. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …
This is an interesting lengthy article about the net economy and scarcity in general Brad deLong points to the last part of the first ariticle,that describes why scarcity will not be completely eliminated The scarcity could be greatly reduced using advanced technology such as molecular nanotechnology. This is expanding upon the cornucopian view Here is …
China is moving to front of supercomputing by going for at least two, most probably three, Petaflop supercomputers by 2010. digg_url= ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-is-building-three-petaflop.html’; digg_skin =’compact’;reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-is-building-three-petaflop.html’reddit_url=’advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-is-building-three-petaflop.html’ Beijing, will have one, most probably under the patronage of Chinese Academy of Science, where Lenovo is an incumbent with a large 1000-CPU Itanium Quadrics system right now. This will probably …
Rocket company Armadillo Aerospace has just completed a 3-minute hover test of its vehicle Pixel, positioning itself to win the most challenging level of the $2 million Lunar Lander Centennial Challenge in October 2007. Armadillo Aerospace’s Pixel vehicle hovered for a record 192 seconds on Saturday, but the tethered flight was not a good test …
Perfecting new procedures could enable the safe resuscitation of someone with no heart beat and no brain activity even after one hour or more. In an article from Newsweek, researchers who analyzed the cells of people who have no heart beat and whose brain has shutdown to conserve oxygen (normally considered clinically dead) have made …
Rice University scientists today revealed a breakthrough method for producing molecular specks of semiconductors called quantum dots, a discovery that could clear the way for better, cheaper solar energy panels. One way towards cheaper solar cells is to make them out of quantum dots. Prior research by others has shown that four-legged quantum dots, which …
Loss of only one of the genes, a gene encoding the protein PHA-4, negated the lifespan-enhancing effect of calorie-restriction in worms. And, when researchers undertook the opposite experiment—by overexpressing pha-4 in worms—the longevity effect was enhanced. “PHA-4 acts completely independent of insulin/IGF-1 signaling and turns out to be essential for CR-mediated longevity,” says Panowski. “We …
UPDATE: Engineer-Poet analyzes the H2CAR proposal and shows why it is a misleading diversion from real solutions Proposed process One of the possible configurations of the proposed H2CAR process. Some images courtesy of Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Clearly it would be best if coal was not used but biomass only. Scientists have demonstrated …
An optical microscope image of a yeast cell (the round feature to the right) on top of the micron-sized detector used in the studies. The image is blurred because the cell is so small that large magnification is required in order to obtain the image. (Credit: Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) …