Journal of American Medical Association published study of people who die from H1N1 in Canada Key Takeaways:* Get into the hospital before you get supersick from flu and your organs start showing problems* Unlike regular flu where the very young and very old are at more risk, H1N1 is hitting harder those who are 10-60 …
The physical setup of the quantum computer consists of a superconducting transmission line cavity coupled to an ensemble of electron spins and a transmon Cooper pair box. The cavity dimensions allow 100 billion electron spins to be coupled to the cavity mode, which could be used to make hundreds of physical qubits. Image copyright: J.H. …
The New York Times reported on the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2008-2009 Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures conference. Co-chairs: Eric Horvitz and Bart Selman Panel: Margaret Boden, Craig Boutilier, Greg Cooper, Tom Dean, Tom Dietterich, Oren Etzioni, Barbara Grosz, Eric Horvitz, Toru Ishida, Sarit Kraus, Alan Mackworth, David McAllester, Sheila McIlraith, …
MIT researchers have developed a device, right, that can be implanted into a tumor to monitor how it responds to treatment MIT, Boston General Hospital and other researchers have developed an implantable device for monitoring cancer. An implantable diagnostic device that senses the local in vivo environment. This device, which could be left behind during …
The Space Elevator Games 2009 finally have a specific scheduled date and they are July 14-16, 2009. Here is the schedule:6/05: non-US press badging deadline 6/08: Aviation Safety Review Board (must pass) 6/15: Tether System test flight (Dryden) 6/18: Team Laser safety/qual tests (Dryden) 7/09: Teams arrive for setup (Dryden) 7/14 – 7/16: Power Beaming …
This weeks news makes it a tough week to deny technology acceleration or an eventual technological Singularity. It is looking far more certain that a very powerful three dimensional DNA/RNA/Protein Nanotechnological capability is emerging and that nanotechnology will be integrated with carbon nanotubes and nanoparticle metal and can be used to bootstrap precise control and …
Wolfram Alpha is launching in about one hour. 8 pm pacific. Did my first query on wolfram alpha. Get out your popcorn and check it out. CNet reports Wolfram Alpha has delayed the launch because of glitches. They may have a test launch tonight or over the weekend and are trying to get a full …
Carnival of Space 101 is up at Robot Explorers This site provided one of the articles on Helion Energy’s nuclear fusion effort. Crowlspace takes another look at the Fermi Paradox (which is an argument that aliens should be here so long as one race of alien in the galaxy is successfully able to colonize space.) …
Two thirds of the temperature warming of the Atlantic is because of less dust from Volcanoes over the last thirty years. This also means the ideas of adding volcanic dust into the air would work for cooling the climate if necessary. Researchers have calculated how much of the Atlantic Oceans warming observed during the last …
Mini-Helicon plasma thrusters are the first three parts of a Vasimr plasma propulsion unit. The Mini-Helicon is the first rocket to run on nitrogen, the most abundant gas in our atmosphere. Nitrogen is cheaper than Xenon and other gases used in other electric propulsion. The new system, called the Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster, is much smaller …
A large increase in the capability of computers to augment our intelligence and productivity is coming but the societal impact will be dwarfed by the increasing democratization of the capability of many more people to have meaningful opportunities to tackle the big problems. Intelligence and Productivity Enhancement with Computers 1. Besides the basic connection, there …