Injection of quantum dots to a cell’s nucleus

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software University of Illinois researchers developed a nanoneedle that releases quantum dots directly into the nucleus of a living cell when a small electrical charge is applied. The quantum dots are tracked to gain information about conditions inside the nucleus. | Image courtesy Min-Feng Yu University of …

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Femtotech Speculation

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Artificial intelligence researcher Hugo deGaris has speculated on Femtotechnology. He has considered – a) Nucleon Chemistry on the surface of neutron stars? b) Stranglets (agglomerations of S(trange) quarks)? At Hplusmagazine Hugo deGaris again mentions femtotechnology but does not provide any more progress to a path to …

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Generating the Option of a Two-Stage Nuclear Renaissance

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Scientists, from Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, suggest a two-stage plan in their review paper that could see countries with existing nuclear infrastructure replacing or extending the life of nuclear power stations, followed by a second phase of global expansion in the industry …

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Teaching the Memristor

Leon Chua, the originator of the theory of the memristor, believes memristor will not be taught in undergraduate courses until it is widely adopted in industry for the simple reason that any circuit containing even only one memristor must be analyzed by nonlinear techniques. All electronic textbooks have been teaching using the wrong variables–voltage and …

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Progress in Reverse Engineering Brains with Detailed Macaque Monkey Brain Map

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software There is a landmark paper entitled “Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain” (an open-access paper) by Dharmendra S. Modha (IBM Almaden) and Raghavendra Singh (IBM Research-India) with major implications for reverse-engineering the brain and developing a network of cognitive-computing chips. Understanding the …

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Lawrence Livermore Simulating Viable Nuclear Bomb Asteroid Deflections

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software There have been disagreements about the best way to deflect asteroids. There is option of a nuclear bomb or gentler non-nuclear methods. David Dearborn, a research physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, says that if an asteroid was expected to collide with Earth …

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Lensless Quantum Dot Infrared Detector with Double Detectivity Now and 20 Times More Detectivity In a Few Years

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based “microlens” that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of ultra-powerful satellite cameras and night-vision devices. By leveraging the unique properties of nanoscale gold to “squeeze” light …

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Successful Systemic siRNA delivery via Nanoparticles in Humans

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Arrowhead Research Subsidiary, Calando Pharmaceuticals, have provided the first proof of RNA Interference in Humans with a systemically administered siRNA Therapeutic. The clinical trial results were published in Nature We believe we are nearing the time when siRNA therapeutics can begin to make a historic leap from …

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US Has the Most Billionaires by a Wide Margin and Japan Has Relatively Few Billionaires In Spite of Being Second in Number of Millionaires

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software This is from the Forbes Interactive Map of world billionaires Japan used to have a lot of billionaires before the collapse of their real estate market. Japan has the second most millionaires. The Merrill Lynch – Capgemini World’s Wealth Report 2009 defines HNWIs as those who hold …

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Lower Power Near Threshold Computers

Proceedings of the IEEE – Near-Threshold Computing: Reclaiming Moore’s Law Through Energy Efficient Integrated Circuits Power has become the primary design constraint for chip designers today. While Moore’s law continues to provide additional transistors, power budgets have begun to prohibit those devices from actually being used. To reduce energy consumption, voltage scaling techniques have proved …

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Towards Real Time Computational Governance

In my 2010 Foresight presentation on high impact technology and processes, I initially mentioned an idea for computational governance. Computational governance mechanisms would assist in better decisions in government and business. The goal would be to use technology (sensors, imaging etc…) to as quickly as possible get accurate feedback on the results of new policies …

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