Japan is proceeding with its 10 petaflop supercomputer project and plans to finish it i n2011. Japan’s Ministry of Science and Technology will provide funding for the project worth a total of 115.4 billion yen (about 710 million euros) or almost 1 billion US dollars Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
From eetimes, the last keynote speech at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) lived up to its billing of “design without borders.” A tribute to the late A. Richard Newton, it focused on the application of manufacturing and design approaches developed for microelectronics to the emerging field of synthetic biology. Some months before Newton’s death, Rabaey …
Norwegian companies, Bergen Energi, have applied for licenses to build a Thorium-based nuclear power plant. Hat tip to Nuclear notes Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends …
Grazing the scalp and Wnt proteins could cure baldness. The team cut out a square centimetre of skin from the backs of mice two weeks after their hair follicles had formed. After 14 to 19 days the wounds had closed and formed new. When the researchers added Wnt proteins – signalling molecules usually involved in …
The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology talks about an interesting project that Zyvex has planned. They will create nanostructures with elements of molecular precision. This will help enable more powerful capabilities for controlling structures. The plans are to use silicon and silicon carbide and possibly other materials and created connected layers. Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
The White Spaces Coalition (WSC) is a group of companies devoted to making use of white space in the analog television spectrum to offer wireless broadband. It’s an impressive lineup: Microsoft, Google, Dell, HP, Intel, Philips, Earthlink, and Samsung are the group’s public members; there are also a couple of Coalition members who prefer to …
“Mini bacteria”, or EnGeneIC Delivery Vehicles (EDVs) as the company has dubbed them, are cheap and easy to produce, and can be used as targeted drug delivery vehicles. They could be adapted to target virtually any tumour tissue in the body, and could put an end to many of the toxic side effects associated with …
Chris Phoenix writes about Rob Freitas and Ralph Merkle’s computational chemistry work Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, …
Loss of only one of the genes, a gene encoding the protein PHA-4, negated the lifespan-enhancing effect of calorie-restriction in worms. And, when researchers undertook the opposite experiment—by overexpressing pha-4 in worms—the longevity effect was enhanced. “PHA-4 acts completely independent of insulin/IGF-1 signaling and turns out to be essential for CR-mediated longevity,” says Panowski. “We …
Intel is working on Claytronics an emerging field of engineering concerning reconfigurable microscale robots The researchers propose to make moving, physical, three-dimensional replicas of people or objects, so lifelike that human senses would accept them as real. When you finished using a replica for one purpose, you could transform it into another useful shape. A …
The researchers said these marked improvements are probably a “direct consequence” of new practices that followed updated guidelines from key organizations of heart doctors in the United States and Europe. Recommendations in those guidelines include quick use of aspirin or more potent blood thinners; beta blockers to reduce the damaged heart’s oxygen needs, statins to …