Robert Reich recommends raising the marginal income tax rate on the highest earners to 70-90% to end the US recession. This site does not agree with that recommendation but provides it as an FYI (for your information). In the decades after World War II, legislation like the G.I. Bill, a vast expansion of public higher …
Certain configurations of the filler element barium will be very effective in lowering the materials’ thermal conductivity and thus increasing their conversion efficiency. Today’s state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials are only five percent efficient. Skutterudites, and this new knowledge about how best to arrange their atoms, could help improve their performance to 15- or 20-percent, at which …
Lockheed Martin’s (LM) Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) has passed a final round of tests at Fort Riley, Kansas, before scheduled deployment to Afghanistan in 2011. The system, which turns a six-wheeled amphibious ATV into a robotic packhorse and charging station, has been subjected to a variety of simulated warzone environments in both remote controlled …
1. Kurzwelai reports that a European consortium has developed the Megaframe Imager, an ultrafast camera capable of recording images at one million frames per second. It allows for cellular and sub-cellular imaging, neural imaging, biosensing, DNA and protein microarray scanning, automotive collision studies, and high-sensitivity astronomical observations. Fluorescence lifetime biosensing with DNA microarrays and a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Techcrunch’s Adam Rifkin makes the case that Facebook can become bigger in revenue than Google is today within 5 year. Facebook already passed Google for page views. Alvin Wang points out – Currently, Google makes fourteen times as much revenue per impression as Facebook. Currently, Facebook …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Two Case Western Reserve University researchers are building implants made of diamond and flexible polymer that are designed to identify chemical and electrical changes in the brain of patients suffering from neural disease, or to stimulate nerves and restore movement in the paralyzed. The work of …
Richard Varvill, technical director and one of the founders of Reaction Engines believes the Skylon spaceplane project is now reaching its final stages. After decades of withdrawn government support and huge technical hurdles, the tide has turned in favour of high-tech manufacturing and, more importantly, human space travel. A recent study into the Skylon’s ability …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software An artificial ovary – An engineered honeycomb of cultured theca cells (top row) envelopes spheres of granulosa cells (GC). The bottom row shows the tissue after 48 hours (left) and after five days. Credit: Carson Lab / Brown University Researchers at Brown University and Women & …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Orthokeratology (also referred to as Ortho-K, Overnight Vision Correction and Corneal Refractive Therapy), marketed under brand names like “DreamLens”, “i-GO OVC”, “GOV”, “Wake and See”, “CRT” and “Emerald”, is the use of rigid gas-permeable contact lenses, normally worn only at night, to improve vision through …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Alphabet Energy is a startup that has a a thermoelectric chip that can be inserted into any exhaust flue or engine to convert heat into electrical power.lphabet says its innovation is in both the choice of material and proprietary technology that gives it low thermal conductivity, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dr. Suzanne Gildert is the author of the wonderful Physics and Cake blog. She has a high level overview of the Investigating the Performance of an Adiabatic Quantum Optimization Processor paper (10 pages) up at the Dwave blog. How do you measure the speed of an …