Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is the highest priority space based telescope project of the New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2010) report by the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) and the Space Studies Board WFIRST is a wide-field-of-view near-infrared imaging and …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in which weak electrical currents are applied to the scalp using electrodes, is the first non-invasive way of stimulating the brain that can more than double visual memory performance. In future, Chi says, it might eventually be possible to use tDCS …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Q – What does a Biologist know about being an engineer ? A – I [Stewart Brand] have the genes of an engineer. My father and brother were engineers and I was bit by the hacker bug early. Q- Reinventing Infrastructure Bridge is infrastructure, river is …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a 15 page clean energy report on China. From these and other sources that quote China’s National Energy Plans here are projections for 2015 and 2020. 2009 2015 2020 ————————————————————– Coal (billion tons) 1.8 2.7 3.4 Oil (megatons) 405 500 563 Gas (billion cu …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the cap could possibly shut the well, but might also be used only to block the flow during emergency situations like a hurricane, when BP’s surface containment effort would be suspended. BP Plc conducted pressure tests on its blown-out …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Memristor MOS Content Addressable Memory (MCAM): Hybrid Architecture for Future High Performance Search Engines As Moore’s Law becomes more difficult to fulfill, integration of significantly different technologies such as spintronics, carbon nano tube field effect transistors (CNFET), optical nanocircuits based on metamaterials, and more …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Triskelia are the tripod shaped subunits of Clathrin. The Clathrin protein self-assembles into nanoscale spheres that lase “Our clathrin scaffolding applications are also dual use, with commercial applications in VLSI lithography, biomolecular electronics and in self-assembling novel photonic nanostructures for alternative energy generation EETimes reports on …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 155 is up at backseat driving and it is in Haiku format This site provided two articles Details on a SSTO magnetohydrodynamic and inertial electrostatic space plane. This design was covered at STAIF 2005 but there is continuing research into both MHD …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Cameco said it plans to nearly double uranium production to 40 million pounds annually over the next eight years to satisfy rising demand for nuclear fuel as nuclear power generation capacity expands. Cameco’s expansion plans rely heavily on production from its 50 percent owned Cigar Lake …
The vision of claytronics (by Intel and Carnegie Mellon university) is to create programmable grit, that behaves somewhat like the liquid robot in Terminator 2 or an earlier version of utility fog. Stress-driven MEMS Assembly + Electrostatic Forces = 1mm Diameter Robot (7 page pdf) As the size of the modules in a self-reconfiguring modular …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Uranium production volume in the Republic of Kazakhstan for the 1st quarter of 2010 made up 4,060 tons of Uranium that is 63% more in comparison with the same period of the last year. Such growth resulted from the increase of production at nearly all …