CTV has an interview with John Wright, CEO of the Petrobank Group of companies His perspective of technology and categorizing risk and how to plan for the future are things that I agree with. Petrobank is working on toe-to-heel air injection (THAI), a process using underground combustion to achieved higher heavy-oil recovery rates with a …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientists at the University of Surrey, working on a project funded by the European space company Astrium, have devised a 3 kg miniature satellite or “nanosatellite” fitted with a “solar sail”. “CubeSail” is a device which can be fitted to satellites or launch vehicle upper stages that …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The satellite experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) has measured the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio in cosmic rays with energies up to 100 GeV. The PAMELA experiment has been in low Earth-orbit on the Resurs-DK1 satellite since its launch in June 2006 (CERN Courier …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Georgia Institute of Technology – A new high-performance anode structure based on silicon-carbon nanocomposite materials could significantly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries used in a wide range of applications from hybrid vehicles to portable electronics. Other types of new batteries and new ultracapacitors have been claiming …
New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour’s nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter. The results support previous data from the same research team that pulling an all-nighter – …
Business Week reports that analysts like Broadpoint AmTech believe that Google’s 1 Gigabit per second network will cost about $3000-$8000 per home to implement Google wants to offer 1 gigabit-per-second speeds to some 50,000 to 500,000 people. At 2.6 people per household, that roughly translates to 20,000 to 200,000 homes. Our friend Ben Schachter, Internet …
The UK National Physical Laboratory is part of a european collaborative research project. They have brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including NPL, have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, …
An atomic-scale map of the interface between an atomic dot and its substrate. Each peak represents a single atom. The map, made with high-intensity X-rays, is a slice through a vertical cross-section of the dot. University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of …
NY Times: “In five or six or seven years,” said Christoph Westphal, Sirtris co-founder [Sirtis was bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million], “there will be drugs that prolong longevity.” [H/T Michael Annisimov, Accelerating Future] SRT-501, the company’s special formulation of resveratrol, is being tested against two cancers, multiple myeloma and colon cancer that has spread …
Chemistry World is reporting that Danish researchers have made a nano-sized box out of DNA that can be locked or opened in response to ‘keys’ made from short strands of DNA. By changing the nature or number of these keys, it should be possible to use the boxes as sensors, drug delivery systems or even …