Frank Fenner Predicts Humans will be Extinct Within 100 Years and Has Made No Effort to Make a Detailed Projection

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software This online book details the life of Frank Fenner who made major contributions in research of viruses and who was involved in the administration of the smallpox eradication program. Fenner predicts the extinction of humanity within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change. …

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China has the Second and Seventh Fastest Supercomputers and Germany has Fifth and the USA has the rest of the Top Ten

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The June 2010 list of the top 500 supercomputers has been released. 1. Jaguar – Oak Ridge National Labs, Cray XT5 1.75 petaflops 2. Nebulae – China – Shenzhen Dawning TC3600 Blade, Nvidia/Intel mix 1.27 petaflops 3. Roadrunner – DOE IBM Powercell 1.04 petaflops 4. Kraken …

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China has the Second and Seventh Fastest Supercomputers and Germany has Fifth and the USA has the rest of the Top Ten

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The June 2010 list of the top 500 supercomputers has been released. 1. Jaguar – Oak Ridge National Labs, Cray XT5 1.75 petaflops 2. Nebulae – China – Shenzhen Dawning TC3600 Blade, Nvidia/Intel mix 1.27 petaflops 3. Roadrunner – DOE IBM Powercell 1.04 petaflops 4. Kraken …

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UCI researchers create retina from human embryonic stem cells

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software UC Irvine scientists have created an eight-layer, early stage retina from human embryonic stem cells, the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made from stem cells Journal of Neuroscience Methods – Three-dimensional early retinal progenitor 3D tissue constructs derived from human embryonic stem cells It also …

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UCI researchers create retina from human embryonic stem cells

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software UC Irvine scientists have created an eight-layer, early stage retina from human embryonic stem cells, the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made from stem cells Journal of Neuroscience Methods – Three-dimensional early retinal progenitor 3D tissue constructs derived from human embryonic stem cells It also …

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Prevention is Key to Roadmap to Make United States the Healthiest Nation

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Commission on U.S. Federal Leadership in Health and Medicine: Charting Future Directions is releasing its second report, “A 21st Century Roadmap for Advancing America’s Health: The Path from Peril to Progress,” emphasizing a comprehensive spectrum of actions to build a 21st century system that will …

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Vietnam Plans to Build Eight 1000 MW Nuclear Reactors by 2030 and UAE Makes Progress to Four Nuclear Reactors

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. The Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, stated that the government of Vietnam had adopted a policy to construct eight 1,000 MW class nuclear power reactors at two sites by 2030. It is anticipated that the contract for the feasibility study would be signed in …

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Online Interview with Philip Moriarty Who is Experimenting to Validate or Disprove the Computational Work of Freitas and Merkle Molecular Tooltips

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software There is a two part interview with Philip Moriarty at 10minus9 blog I work in a variety of fields in nanoscience including self-assembly and pattern formation, fullerenes, synchrotron-based spectroscopy, and charge transport in nanoparticle assemblies, but my primary project at the moment focuses on an area …

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Chinese Urbanization Update

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software China’s rapid urbanization will continue for 15 to 20 years and China will become an urban society in five to six years, with the urbanization rate reaching or exceeding 50 percent. Li Shouxin, director of the Development Planning Department under the National Development and Reform Commission, …

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Real Life MIT Brain Research means that Magneto Could Perform the Jedi Mind Trick

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software MIT neuroscience Research – Moral judgments can be altered … by magnets MIT neuroscientists have now shown they can influence those judgments by interfering with activity in a specific brain region — a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality. In both experiments, the researchers …

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New water desalination approach from MIT and South Korea could lead to efficient small, portable units

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software (a) Schematic diagram of possible optimized unit design. (b) (Left) Gravity-fed ICP desalination system. μCP stack has many parallel microfluidic ICP-device for salt/pathogen removal. Prefilter can eliminate larger particles and neutral organic compounds. (Right) Perspective of the unit device. A new approach to desalination being developed by …

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