A commercially available particle trap can filter microscopic pollutants in diesel-engine exhaust and prevent about 98 percent of them from reaching the air, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Inhaling exhaust particles increases the risk of dying from heart and lung diseases. Air pollution, including diesel exhaust as a …
3D mesenchymal stem cells labelled with green and red fluorescent dyes. Image: Dr Paul Genever A type of adult stem cell is now proving itself more versatile for research and therapies thanks to revolutionary 3D experiments. These cells have already shown great promise for repairing damaged bone and cartilage but until now have been fairly …
This is an orientation map of a spin-cast array of FePt nanoparticles. Most nanoparticles are enclosed by a hexagon of six neighboring nanoparticles. Each nanoparticle was color coded according to the angle (in degrees) of the hexagon’s orientation. Researchers from North Carolina State University have investigated the viability of a technique called “spincasting” for creating …
Bernard L. Cohen, describes the situation with Plutonium One often hears that in large-scale use of plutonium we will be creating unprecedented quantities of poisonous material. Since plutonium is dangerous principally if inhaled, it should be compared with other materials which are dangerous to inhale. If all of our electricity were derived from breeder reactors, …
With the addressing scheme arbitrary patterns of atoms in the lattice can be prepared. The atomic patterns each consist of 10 – 30 single atoms that are kept in an artificial crystal of light. Using a laser beam, scientists could address single atoms in a lattice of light and change their spin state. They managed …
IAEA report- Japanese authorities also today informed the IAEA at 04:50 CET that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is on fire and radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere. Dose rates of up to 400 millisievert per hour have been reported at …
Brave New Climate has a description of what happened at Fukushima The earthquake that hit Japan was 7 times more powerful than the worst earthquake the nuclear power plant was built for (the Richter scale works logarithmically; the difference between the 8.2 that the plants were built for and the 8.9 that happened is 7 …
2G HTS Applications Developments (62 pages) Superpower inc is working on : 1. 2G HTS SMES (High Temperature Superconductor superconducting magnetic energy storage) 2. FCL (Fault Current Limiters) Transformer 3. FCL (Fault Current Limiters)Module Development 4. HTS (High Temperature Superconductor) Cable 5. HTS (High Temperature Superconductor) Generators and Motors Superconducting magnetic energy storage project • …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) has confirmed that the current nuclear fusion prototype can be configured to generate sufficient high energy X-rays for an x-scan spinoff. LPP March 3, 2011 report (4 pages): Measurement of intense, high-energy X-rays from the electron beam through 6” of metal demonstrate the technical feasibility of X-Scan spin-off technology New experiments …
Elena Semouchkina and colleagues are experimenting with ways of using magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects, rendering those objects invisible to the human eye. They designed a nonmetallic “invisibility cloak” that uses concentric arrays of identical glass resonators made of chalcogenide glass, a type of dielectric material–that is, …
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is soliciting low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) research in support of the Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) Early Stage Innovation Division. In the spirit of the original NIAC, this call invites innovative, technically credible advanced concepts that could one day change the possible in aeronautics and space. NIAC will …