Lockheed Martin’s (LM) Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) has passed a final round of tests at Fort Riley, Kansas, before scheduled deployment to Afghanistan in 2011. The system, which turns a six-wheeled amphibious ATV into a robotic packhorse and charging station, has been subjected to a variety of simulated warzone environments in both remote controlled …
Fox news, CNN and NBC are all projecting that the Republicans will win a majority in the House of representatives. Fox news is projecting a 60 seat gain for the Republicans. It is likely that the Democrats will keep the majority in the Senate. However, many of the Democrats ran against Obama to retain their …
How the virus is tackled * 1 Virus (purple) circulating in the bloodstream recognised by antibodies (yellow) of the immune system * 2 Virus attaches to outer cell membrane with antibodies still attached * 3 Virus invades the cell membrane and emerges inside the cell * 4 Remains of cell membrane disappear and the virus …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Business Week – If China’s currency reserves were to double again in the next three years and if the foreign-exchange market grows 20 percent, as it did in 2007-2010, China would hold more than the daily trading volume in all currency instruments. Foreign-exchange market trading in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of wireless recharging technology that enables the design of magnetic resonance-based wireless charging systems that can simultaneously recharge various types of portable electronic devices. This technology not only promises more compact and more efficient power transmitters and receivers, it …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Alphabet Energy is a startup that has a a thermoelectric chip that can be inserted into any exhaust flue or engine to convert heat into electrical power.lphabet says its innovation is in both the choice of material and proprietary technology that gives it low thermal conductivity, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. From the TimesFreePress via the Nuclear Townhall – The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to revive one of its unfinished nuclear reactors from the 1970s before pursuing the next generation of nuclear power. TVA directors will be asked today to spend $250 million in the next …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software An extremely large telescope (ELT) is a class of telescope with an aperture of more than 20 m diameter when discussing reflecting telescopes of optical wavelengths including UV, Visible, and Near infrared wavelengths. Among many planned capabilities, ELTs are planned to increase the chance of finding …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software China wants to build 153 new plants using existing technology and believes it can cut the costs of French and Japanese-based reactor designs by one third by rolling out the parts in bulk. The Chinese-made CPR-1000 (based on the french EPR) reactor was “proven, reliable, and …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reversing the muscle wasting caused by cancer tumors leads to longer survival. In most patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Animals with cancer that received the experimental treatment that restored the lost muscle lived …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Eliezer Yudkowsky on Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism I will discuss a complex of related ideas that together form a more powerful whole: The idea of an upward-sloping future, as opposed to a worldview that locates utopia in the past and sees an inevitable downward slope …