Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) plans to invest 800 billion yuan ($120 billion) into nuclear energy projects by 2020. Total investment in nuclear power plants, in which CNNC will hold controlling stakes, will reach 500 billion yuan ($75 billion) by 2015. 2. The project to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Gopinath Sutendra and a group of collaborators have found that excessive cell growth can be reversed. Note: excessive cell growth is one of the seven damages from aging that SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence ) is trying to address Hypertension causes 5 million premature …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A 56.8% reduction in arterial plaque and healing of the arteries would reverse the course of Atherosclerosis by 10-20 years. The treatment could be repeated to stave off Atherosclerosis indefinitely. Atherosclerosis (also known as arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD) is a condition in which an artery …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Ad Astra’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket needs 200 Megawatts of power for a 40 day trip from Earth to Mars, but the power source needs a high needs a high power to weight ratio power source as well A mission trajectory study estimated that a VASIMR-powered …
1. One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see Starting with gene therapy treatment research on the eyes keeps the gene therapy localized so that researchers can learn to make effective treatment where this is low risk of complications and side effects. After a single injection of genes that produce …
Are Black Hole Starships Possible? (20 page pdf) By Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland, Kansas State University (H/T Crowlspace) The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether it is possible to build artificial Black holes of the appropriate size, and to employ them in powerplants and starships. The conclusion we reach is that it …
As noted at the Speculist and at Accelerating Future, the New Atlantis is anti-transhumanist. This bias only occasionally is apparent in their live blogging of the Singularity Summit. Peter Thiel on the Singularity and Economics from the New Atlantis. Thiel says that, although it is rarely talked about, perhaps the most dangerous scenario is that …
A bioengineered tooth germ placed in the jaw of a mouse (top) buds through the gum at 36 days (center) and fully grows in after 49 days (bottom). Credit: Takashi Tsuji/Tokyo University of Science A Japanese group, led by cell biologist Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University of Science in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, focused on tooth …
Centauri Dreams has a new interview with Friedwardt Winterberg on Starship Design. Note FYI: A reader told me that when they tried to reach this article via a Google news alert they were redirected to a spyware site. Going directly to this article was not a problem. Nextbigfuture has covered the micro-fusion for space propulsion …
Hi, everybody this is Joseph Friedlander, in a guest article series on Nextbigfuture. In this series I hope to discuss first some of the largest systems proposed to reach orbit with big payloads, and then why it’s a lot better (for equal cheapness) to have one big payload than say a million 30 kg payloads …
A team led by Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand, vice-dean of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Engineering, has developed a nano-sized laboratory, complete with a microscopic workbench, to measure water quality in real time. Their “lab on a chip” is a breakthrough in the effort to keep water safe from pollution and bioterrorist threats, pairing biology with …