King’s College Of London – Researchers at King’s College London, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified for the first time a key factor responsible for declining muscle repair during ageing, and discovered how to halt the process in mice with a common drug. Although an early study, the findings provide clues as to …
The Carnival of Space 166 is up at Venus Transit Peter Lake takes a look at the newly discovered 375m Asteroid that will pass at about 7.4 lunar distances on the 14th. It is a little unusual these days to find such a big asteroid less than three weeks before its closest approach. (Video) Nextbigfuture …
The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope. They just have to put cameras, spectrographs or other instrument, put the staff in place to manage them, and launch them into space. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the …
Professor Barry Brook, University of Adelaide scientist, believes it is inevitable that Australia will become a user of the world’s most advanced nuclear power technology, if the country is serious about cutting carbon emissions. Barry Brook blogs at Brave New Climate Professor Barry Brook, Director of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute, …
Games Industry – A slide given to AnandTech by NVidia shows that the graphics-chip manufacturer expects mobile Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to surpass the GPU in Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by 2014. While home consoles are released and then sit for years in homes, mobile devices are refreshed and updated by hardware vendors every year. The …
Michael Pettis wants to bet the Economist Magazine that by the end of 2018 China will not be the largest economy in the world (on a nominal GDP basis). I am willing to make that bet. For some minor factors in my favor I would want Hong Kong and Macau’s GDP to be included in …
Daily Mail UK – Russian academics signed a deal with a controversial Korean scientist to clone the animal. Hwang Woo-Suk – who created the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005 – will implant the nucleus from a mammoth cell into an elephant egg to create a mammoth embryo. The embryo will then be implanted …
1. World Nuclear News – South Korea’s two newest nuclear reactors, Shin Kori 2 and Shin Wolsong 1, have been connected to the grid. Shin Kori 2 started up in December 2011 and was connected to the grid in January, joining Shin Kori 1 which entered commercial operation in early 2011. Meanwhile, Shin Wolsong 1 …
Wikipedia – The Green Wall of China, also known as the Green Great Wall or Great Green Wall will be a series of human-planted forest strips in the People’s Republic of China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert. It is planned to be completed around 2050, at which point it is …
The Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS) was the first air lubrication system in the world to be applied to a newly built ship, and resulted in a substantial reduction in the ship’s resistance. Therefore, a performance estimation method using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) needs to be established as soon as possible to apply the MALS …
Applied Physical Letters – Reconfigurable gradient index using VO2 memory metamaterials Being able to tune metamaterial devices at this level of precision – repeatedly, as required, and after the metamaterial has been fabricated – opens the door to new techniques, including the ability to manufacture Gradient Index of Refraction (GRIN) devices, that can be used …