The Carnival of Space 257 is up at Dear Astronomer Kentucky Space – Do you think outside the atmosphere? This small arduino-compatible prototyping platform puts a complete space-related development environment in the hands of makers and coders. Mike has the FireFly available for presale for $159. Arduino compantible space development controller board Discovery Space News …
North Dakota’s May oil production daily average was 639,277 barrels. 19,817,591 barrels of oil produced in May. In April, 2012, there were 18.3 million barrels of crude oil pumped out of 7,025 wells. Daily production averaged 609,373 barrels. There was nearly a 30,000 bpd increase from April, which follows a 34,000 bpd increase from March. …
The Carnival of Space 250 is up at Vintage Space The public emergence of the 100 Year Starship organization prompts thoughts from Paul Gilster at Centauri Dreams. “Universe Today – With the recent announcement of the asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources, some of the most-asked questions about this enticing but complex endeavor include, what asteroids …
Nature Chemistry – Programmable molecular recognition based on the geometry of DNA nanostructures Foresight Institute has a description of the DNA nanostructure work The wide assortment of nanostructures and nanomachines made possible by structural DNA nanotechnology are all based upon the molecular recognition code of the familiar DNA double helix. Initially this code was exploited …
Science – Correction of Sickle Cell Disease in Adult Mice by Interference with Fetal Hemoglobin Silencing Harvard – flipping a single molecular switch can reverse illness in an animal model of sickle cell disease, according to a study by Harvard researchers. When a protein called BCL11A is turned off, the body is able to manufacture …
Left: The Billups-Birch alkylcarboxylation reaction allows functional groups to propagate down the CNT from points of pre-existing defects. Right: Electron microscopy shows “banded” CNTs with distinct functionalized and intact regions along their lengths. Photo credits: Nature Communications. CNT need to soluble, have the ability to be dispersed in a liquid environment (nanocomposite with polymers) or …
Researchers here have created the first electronic circuit to merge traditional inorganic semiconductors with organic “spintronics” – devices that utilize the spin of electrons to read, write and manipulate data. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, assistant professor of physics, and his team combined an inorganic semiconductor with a unique plastic material that is under development in colleague Arthur …
In 2008, Dr. Doris Taylor of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Cardiovascular repair made a preclinical advance by the tissue engineering of a live, beating rat heart, generated using a decellularized myocardium as a scaffold, onto which cardiac stem cells were seeded. Within two years were not only reporting similar results with reseeded decellularized …
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it began mass production of the 22-inch transparent LCD panel in March this year. The panels come in two colors, the black-and-white type and the color type, and they have a contrast ratio of 500:1 with WSXGA+(1680*1050) resolution. Compared with the conventional LCD panels that use back light …