Researchers have turned off a life-threatening allergic response to peanuts by tricking the immune system into thinking the nut proteins aren’t a threat to the body, according to a new preclinical study from Northwestern Medicine. The peanut tolerance was achieved by attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells and reintroducing them to the body — an …
Petroleum Economist – Libya’s oil production should reach 750,000 barrels per day by the end of October and 1 million barrels per day by the end of 2011 according to leaked documents from the National Oil Corporation. Arabian gulf oil (Agoco) is restarting production in the Sirte-basin oilfields of Nafura and Bayda in two weeks. …
The StratoSolar PV solution represents an opportunity to make today’s PV technology cost effective without the massive subsidy needed to drive the technology to commercial viability in the 15 to 20 years historical trends would indicate will be necessary. It also makes PV an affordable alternative for locations like Germany and Japan where PV is …
Forbes – After more than a decade of battles with Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft sits atop the console business, where its entertainment and devices unit squeezed out operating income of just $32 million on $1.5 billion in sales for the quarter ending June 30. And that’s a success story. Now analysts are betting Amazon will …
Duke electrical engineers have developed a man-made material that they say literally allows them to manipulate light at will. They say that the results of their latest proof-of-concept experiments could lead to the replacement of electrical components with those based on optical technologies, which should allow for faster and more efficient transmission of information, much …
Siemens researchers have improved on their own record for wireless data transfer using white LED light. (back in 2010) In collaboration with the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, they have achieved a data transfer rate of up to 500 megabits per second (Mbit/s), significantly bettering the previous record of 200 Mbit/s. Wireless data transport by …
Some academics have written an 8 page paper about exascale computing and the end of Moore’s law. Marc Snir et al try to make the case that * We will hit the end of Moore’s law in mid-2020 with 7 nanometer lithography chips. * spintronics may not be ready in time they call for * …
Elon Musk has an open letter which describes how Spacex keeps its costs low and why they can beat China Bigelow Aerospace (inflatable space stations), Spacex,of Ad Astra Rocket Company (makers of the VASIMR plasma rocket) and few companies like them are leading the way to a new space age. Whenever someone proposes to do …
The 49th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up at Yes Vermont Yankee The ANS Nuclear cafe has a collaborative post about why is there an irrational fear of radiation A critic of a reactor re-licensing application, writing in a political news magazine, said that a tritium release was 500 times more than expected, which was …
Foam power: This lithium-ion battery cathode can be used to make a battery that holds as much energy as a conventional one, but can recharge a hundred times faster. Credit: Paul Braun A new way of making battery electrodes based on nanostructured metal foams has been used to make a lithium-ion battery that can be …
GE today released a study, Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations, which estimates that 5 percent of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year—an amount equivalent to 30 percent of consumption in the European Union and 23 percent in the United States. Gas flaring …