Nanosystems Initiative Munich – The measurement of very low concentrations of various agents plays an important role in medicine, pharmacology and food technology. So-called “nanomechanical resonators” – vibrating nanostrings – represent promising candidates for suitable detectors, because their oscillating motion is extremely sensitive to the binding of substances of interest. In recent years scientists have …
XCOR Aerospace announced today that it recently closed a $5 million round of equity funding. The round, combined with cash on hand plus anticipated and existing contracts, should fund the company through production of its Lynx Mark I Suborbital vehicle. The financing included participation of new and previous investors. Among them are Esther Dyson, Pete …
1. Idaho Samizdat – Small modular reactor vendors seek investors and customers. First they have to prove they can build one. This report, the 2nd in a series, looks at opportunities to develop prototypes at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River site. 2. Science and Technology at Newsok has an article about Uranium Enrichment. When …
1. Reuters – Iraq aims to boost oil exports by 200,000 barrels per day next month after it opens up a new Gulf outlet, a senior Iraqi oil official said, freeing Baghdad to export all the extra barrels foreign oil companies are extracting from its giant fields. If all goes to plan, exports from Iraq’s …
PJMedia has Rand Simberg providing the speech that Newt needs to give now about objectives and vision in the US space program. There has been a great deal of controversy in the last few days on a subject that, in this country, should have been fairly uncontroversial — the greatness of America and its ability …
IMF China Economic Outlook, Feb 6, 2012 (10 pages) A storm emanating from Europe would hit China hard * China’s growth rate would drop abruptly if the Euro area experiences a sharp recession * But China has room for a countervailing fiscal response, and should use that space * Unlike 2009–10, any stimulus should be …
ICube is a fabless semiconductor company developing semiconductor System-On-Chip (SOC) solutions based on our Harmony Unified Processor Technology, genuinely integrating two different processor types: a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU), into one unified core. Founded by Silicon Valley veterans (Simon Moy, CTO was Principal Engineer at NVIDIA and Fred Chow, …
1. Namibia’s competition commission said on Wednesday it had cleared a Chinese nuclear company to take over an Australian mining firm with rights to the world’s fourth-largest uranium deposit. The go-ahead would allow Taurus Mineral, a subsidiary of state-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company (CGNPC), to buy a controlling share in Australia-based Extract Resources, …
China has set a target for installed solar power generating capacity to reach 15 gigawatts by 2015 and wind power capacity to hit 100 GW, China National Radio reported, citing an announcement from the National Energy Administration. The solar power capacity by 2015 to be 50 pct over previous plan from just earlier in 2011. …
1. The EU, minus the U.K., announced at the Brussels summit that it would push forward with efforts to forge a closer economic union. They agreed to adopt a “new fiscal compact” that includes more stringent budget rules and nearly automatic penalties when those rules are broken. They also agreed to explore the closer coordination …
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science been awarded $4.5 million over four years by the U.S. Department of Defense to strengthen carbon nanotube yarns and sheets, materials that hold great promise for advancing satellite technology. Since their discovery in 1993, carbon nanotubes have attracted great academic and industrial interest, …