Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Space elevator games power beaming competition has been delayed again. This time to March or April of 2011. The winner (Lasermotive) of the 2009 laser beaming/climber competition has a new video which is embedded below. The Lasermotive team and company announced new sponsors. The co-inventors …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Uichiro Niwa, Japan’s new ambassador to China, said Monday he personally thinks an exchange rate of 4-5 yuan per dollar is inevitable in several years. “The trend of a strengthening yuan is unstoppable,” Niwa said, referring to the current rate of 6.7 yuan to the dollar. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Honda will produce both a plug-in hybrid car and an all-electric vehicle in 2013. Honda is considering building its Insight and two other hybrids in the U.S. and plans to expand its lineup of hybrids to five or so by 2013. It also said the electric …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The discovery of asymmetries in the formation of liquid crystals eventually led to their control. The result was the liquid-crystal display. Now, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory believe they have found similar asymmetries in the formation of superconductors, potentially leading to their control and subsequent room-temperature …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lab-on-Bead uses tiny beads studded with “pins” that match a drug to a disease marker in a single step, so researchers can test an infinite number millions of possibilities for treatments all at once. When Lab-on-Bead makes a match, it has found a viable treatment for …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. chris Phoenix at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnlogy reviews a talk by Erik Winfree of CalTech on advancing self assembly towards molecular manufacturing. The Winfree walk was at the foundations of Nanoscience conference. The detailed schedule for the talks are here. * While trying to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Wall Street Journal – An unusual clinical trial involving four different drugs offered promise that guiding treatment based on the molecular traits of a tumor can improve survival from lung cancer. Doctors don’t know which patients are likely to respond to which treatments, resulting in hit-or-miss …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Methuselah Foundation has launched a new prize to advance life extension and regenerative medicine. The NewOrgan Prize will be given for successfully constructing a whole new organ – heart, kidney, lung, pancreas or liver – from a patient’s own cells. The organ must be transplanted …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Norwich BioScience Institutes have developed particles from the Cowpea mosaic virus can carry anti-cancer agents to cancer cells. Materials View China – Cowpea Mosaic Virus Unmodified Empty Viruslike Particles Loaded with Metal and Metal Oxide Empty (devoid of RNA) viruslike particles (eVLPs) of Cowpea mosaic virus can …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Ad Astra’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket needs 200 Megawatts of power for a 40 day trip from Earth to Mars, but the power source needs a high needs a high power to weight ratio power source as well A mission trajectory study estimated that a VASIMR-powered …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Transonic Combustion, based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a gasoline fuel injection system that can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 50 to 75 percent, beating the fuel economy of hybrid vehicles. A test vehicle the size and weight of a Toyota Prius (but without hybrid …