Studies conducted on mice revealed that when the gene HACE1 was inactivated, spontaneous late-stage cancer developed and when active it stopped cancer “If we can learn how to reactivate HACE1 or block cancer cells from inactivating this gene, it may be possible to improve treatments for many cancer patients.” Cancer is the number two killer …
Pricing for the new IBM Blue gene/p is 10 to 15 cents per megaflop This is $1.3 million for each of 13.6 teraflop racks of 32 processor boards in volume. $1.6 million in lower quantities. 216 of the racks is about $272 million for 2937 teraflops. Sun’s Constellation in the 500 teraflop version costs US$29.6 …
Power usage in a typical laptop is roughly evenly split between hard drive, CPU, monitor and wifi By 2009, most new laptops will use solid state drives This will reduce power usage by up to ten times from what the hard drive would have used. A 20% reduction in overall power usage. There are bigger …
The United Kingdom turns around from plan to phase out nuclear power and will build ten new generation reactors for a cost of £1.2 billion ($2.4 bn) each. Electricity grid connections make Hinkley Point and Sizewell the two sites best suited to accommodate either a 1600-megawatt single reactor, or a 3200-MW twin-reactor station. Seven other …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has also recently published a report which provides more detail on global trends that reinforce the importance of developing aquaculture. In 2004, capture fisheries and aquaculture supplied the world with about 106 million tonnes of food fish, providing the highest apparent per capita supply on record. Of …
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology has a recent article that recalls a passage from Unbounding the Future (1991) which discusses virtual reality with sensory feedback What do we have now for the state of the art in virtual reality? We have a 100 million pixel virtual reality room The 10 foot by 10 foot cube room …
A description of how the Robert Bussard Inertial Electrostatic fusion system would work His fuel of choice is one of the earth’s most common and least exotic elements: boron. It can be scooped from the Mojave Desert in California, possibly even extracted from sea water. Boron is used in the production of hundreds of products …