Oxford University computational scientist Steven Emmott (and author of the book Ten Billion) thinks we are all doomed and tries to confuse others with weird metrics that are not in context. Steve talks about water usage. He does not talk about getting twice as efficient with water to get all of the agriculture and industrial …
Japanese researchers have created functioning liver tissue from stem cells and successfully transplanted them into mice. The researchers found that a mixture of human liver precursor cells and two other cell types can spontaneously form three-dimensional structures dubbed “liver buds.” In the mice, these liver buds formed functional connections with natural blood vessels and perform …
India’s first fast breeder reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu is the first ever commercial fast breeder nuclear reactor currently under its final stages of construction. It will be a 500 MWe reactor and should be completed around Sept, 2014. The PFBR can use the thorium fuel cycle and it’s an established fact that …
Aging researcher compared centenarians on one side and T2D patients with severe complications (people with extreme diabetic complications) on the other, thus maximizing possible genetic differences among patients and controls. Their data suggest that the use of relatively small numbers of cases and controls with extreme phenotypes (thus reducing sample heterogeneity) in genetic association studies …
Rossi has announced that Prof. Sergio Focardi has died. Sergio Focardi worked with Rossi to develop the highly controversial energy catalyzer (cold fusion / LENR – low energy nuclear reaction) device. Sergio Focardi (1932–2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna. He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) …
Tesla Motors announced that it has paid off the entire loan awarded to the company by the Department of Energy in 2010. In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, today’s wire of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) repays the full loan facility with interest. Following this payment, Tesla will be the …
Carnival of Space 301 is up at the Venus Transit The Meridiani Journal – Humans 2 Mars conference discusses manned NASA mission by 2030 Dark Lightning “Lights Up” the Sky Scientists have recently discovered the phenomenon they call “dark lightning.” This burst of high-energy gamma rays happens just before the flash of ordinary lightning. And …
A local ABC affiliate confirmed last week today is to announce Google Fiber in Austin. The Google Fiber service offers gigabit Internet service for $70 per month and another tier that includes TV service for $120 per month. In its last earnings call in January, CFO Patrick Pichette said “we really think that we should …
The Galaxy S4 appears to have a similar design to the Galaxy Note 2 and a high-resolution 1080p display. Sammyhub has photos of what is claimed to be the Samsung Galaxy S4 Samsung Galaxy S3 beside what is claimed to be a Samsung Galaxy S4 The Galaxy S IV phone will have an improved camera …
German scientists are seriously developing a laser based system of weed control in order to be more “environmentally friendly” than using chemical poisons. What could go wrong ? Laser armed Robots and drones for farming and weed control and they will have artificial intelligence algorithms and high resolution cameras for recognizing plants. They would have …
Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-off of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), presents the world’s fastest 3D printer of micro- and nanostructures. With this printer, smallest three-dimensional objects, often smaller than the diameter of a human hair, can be manufactured with minimum time consumption and maximum resolution. The printer is based on a novel laser lithography method. …