the American Express advisory panel choose not to select the life extension research project which was voted into 22nd place among the 25 projects being voted on now. Only 5 will receive funding. Thanks to Those who had voted for the life extension project at the end of August. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
Emerging cognitive neuroscience and related technologies written by the National Research Council. Chapter 5: Potential intelligence and military applications Paraphrasing from the executive summary: This area of neuroscience and cognitive enhancement is advancing too quickly for this group to fully track and anticipate disruptive leaps in capability. Chapter 3: Emerging areas of neuroscience and neurotechnology …
As of Aug 28, 2008 at 4:52pm PST, the life extension project is 21st on the list of projects with 1500 nominations. The current top projects have 3000 to 3900 nominations. There are four more days of voting. More of votes are needed to ensure that the life extension project makes the top 25. The …
Koratkar and his team found that by depositing a layer of copper nanorods on the surface of a copper vessel, the nanoscale pockets of air trapped within the forest of nanorods “feed” nanobubbles into the microscale cavities of the vessel surface and help to prevent them from getting flooded with water. This synergistic coupling effect …
Wired magazine has a positive article on Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) and Aubrey deGrey Digg that article here Other researchers have also found some success pursuing similarly structured research programs. For example, late last year, the Buck Institute for Age Research received $25 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a …
The British Petroleum offshore oil rig Thunder Horse started production on June 14, 2008 This is US domestic oil in the gulf of Mexico. It will be producing 250,000 barrels of oil per day in 2009. Thunder Horse page at BP.com The new production is still not enough as the CIBC is predicting $200 per …
This is a follow up on the Arata cold fusion experiment which was showing excess heat Physics world has a review of the Arata cold fusion research This information is a review of the Arata cold fusion work at the LENR-CANR site. [Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, also known as Cold Fusion. (CANR, Chemically Assisted Nuclear …
Carnival of Space week 56 is up at the main Lifeboat Foundation blog. Nextbigfuture contributed A reproducible cold fusion experiment might have been made and a promising regular nuclear fusion approach, plasma focus fusion, has received $10 million in funding There were several articles about the Phoenix space craft landing on Mars Phoenix spacecraft parachuting …
Encana is the largest natural gas company in Canada and is active in the Horn River and Montney natural gas fields in British Columbia. Encana has proven reserves of 13.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Horn River wells are currently producing in the order of 3 to 5 million cubic feet a day per …
Design of an on-chip microscale nanoassembly system has been published by Jason Gorman of the Intelligent Systems Division at the US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. They are currently fabricating a somewhat revised micro-scale nanoassembly system that we believe will be capable of manipulating nanoparticles by the end of the summer, 2008. Where …
Michael Anissimov has a picture of a progression from World War 2 soldier to a mech. The hypothetical Mech has a hypothetical price tag of 500k-700K. Military hummers cost $150K armored and $60-75k unarmored Of course they are not autonomous, although with the DARPA program for self driving cars..we could add yet (and tack on …