Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have today announced a new technique to reprogramme human cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells. Their process increases the efficiency of cell reprogramming by one hundred-fold and generates cells of a higher quality at a faster rate. Until now cells have been reprogrammed using four specific …
The yuan strengthened beyond 6.4 per dollar for the first time in 17 years, supported by the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates at a record low through mid-2013 and signs China will use currency gains to help rein in inflation. The yuan has gotten at least as high as 6.3905 today. The Fed …
2G HTS Wire for High Magnetic Field Applications (37 pages, May 27, 2011) 10-fold improvement by combination of higher self-field critical current and improved retention of in-field performance through technical innovations. Even at 4.2 K, 15 T, 2G HTS wire is comparable now with Nb3 Sn wire. Opportunity to improve to be 10X better than …
Flying High with batteries – EADS Innovation Works, the corporate research and technology network of EADS, is showcasing an allelectric propulsion system concept at Le Bourget. The VoltAir technology concept platform supports the vision of a zero-emission air vehicle which could become a reality 20 years from today. VoltAir is one of the projects that …
We reported today that Dr. James Woodward is now seeing consistent thrust signatures that are reversible in the 1.0 micro-Newton thrust range as captured using his ARC-Lite torque pendulum, which has a force resolution of ~0.05 micro-Newtons. Paul March has explained what scaling up could look like if development were to proceed smoothly from here: …
China plans to build second-generation nuclear power plants in neighbouring countries, including Vietnam, Pakistan, Malaysia and others. At the same time, it wants to increase domestic civilian nuclear production six-fold by 2020. It has tightened security after Fukushima. After 13 years of development, the CNNC last year successfully developed a new reactor, which has a …
Gartner projects that the number of tablets will increase from about 17 million at the end of 2010 to 294 million (over 16 times more) by 2015. There will be a new class of robot that uses a tablet or smartphone as its head launching in 2011 and 2012. iRobot which makes millions of vacuuming …
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 …
VASIMR VX-200 Performance and Near-term SEP Capability for Unmanned Mars Flight was presented at the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Workshop Ad Astra has demonstrated 60% propulsion system efficiency (DC to jet power) at an Isp of 4800 seconds and an input power of 220 kW DC • The ratio of mass to power (alpha) of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Very Big Accelerators as Energy Producers by R R Wilson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (3 pages) One consequence of the application of superconductivity to accelerator construction is that the power consumption of accelerators will become much smaller. This raises the old possibility …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Monday it has delayed the planned restart of the 1,100-megawatt No.1 nuclear unit at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant for an unplanned inspection and repairs. The quake-hit reactor was slated to be restarted on May 22, but in tests before the …