With almost half of the votes counted in Florida the results in the Republican primary are as follows Mitt Romney 47.7% Newt Gingrich 31.0% Rick Santorum 12.9% Ron Paul 6.9% If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …
Elon Musk announces a milestone towards a reusable rocket Twitter – Design completed for bringing rocket back to launchpad using only thrusters. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …
Morningstar – In general, [Prominent emerging market fund managers] managers say that concerns about a “hard landing”–meaning that the Chinese economy will head south quickly and suffer a serious slowdown or even a recession–are overblown. Many, though, do expect China’s economy to continue slowing, partly due to government actions, and they do worry about the …
Eben Alsberg at Case Western has made progress toward implantable replacement cartilage, holding promise for knees, shoulders, ears and noses damaged by osteoarthritis, sports injuries and accidents. Self-assembling sheets of mesenchymal stem cells permeated with tiny beads filled with growth factor formed thicker, stiffer cartilage than previous tissue engineering methods. “We think that the capacity …
Ecat World – Rossi claims – we have found a breakthrough with a primary fluid with which the reactors remain stable when we make steam at 450 Celsius. We are working on it together with our Customer. I am learning very much from him, and in particular I am learning from the person who made …
Steve Jobs’ illness it’s vital to be clear about one thing – he did not have pancreatic cancer he “had what is called a neuroendocrine tumor, more specifically an insulinoma.” Not just my opinion, but that of University of Chicago Medical Center Transplant Center, J. Michael Millis, who was quoted in an article about Jobs …
A conference in Yakutsk was hosted by Yegor Borisov the Governor and the Bering Strait tunnel project was ratified by President Medvedev’s top officials including Aleksander Levinthal the deputy federal representative for the Russian far East. Experts forecast that the completed service could carry 3% of the world’s freight and earn £7 billion GBP per …
Scientists at Northern Illinois University say they have discovered a simple method for producing high yields of graphene, a highly touted carbon nanostructure that some believe could replace silicon as the technological fabric of the future. In a June communication to the Journal of Materials Chemistry, the NIU researchers report on a new method that …
A metallic-glass rod before heating and molding (left); a molded metallic-glass part (middle); the final product with its excess material trimmed off (right). [Credit: Marios D. Demetriou] Stronger than steel or titanium—and just as tough—metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute of …
The death toll from the Japanese earthquake is over 10,000. William tucker explains how the containment structures appear to be working, and the latest reactor designs aren’t vulnerable to the coolant problem at issue here. So far the deaths at the nuclear reactors are one. If you liked this article, please give it a quick …
The results are in for the second day of the Jeopardy contest between Watson and Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Previously we compiled opinions from Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram, Hans Moravec on others on the importance of the competition and what will follow. Spoiler space Spoiler space Watson won day two. In today’s conclusion of …