Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in which weak electrical currents are applied to the scalp using electrodes, is the first non-invasive way of stimulating the brain that can more than double visual memory performance. In future, Chi says, it might eventually be possible to use tDCS …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Q – What does a Biologist know about being an engineer ? A – I [Stewart Brand] have the genes of an engineer. My father and brother were engineers and I was bit by the hacker bug early. Q- Reinventing Infrastructure Bridge is infrastructure, river is …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software AMD has new Bulldozer core design planned as the basis for our next generation AMD Opteron processors Bulldozer is — a brand new design featuring up to 8 cores for client products and up to 16 cores for server products. Bulldozer will feature a new floating …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software China’s Qinshan nuclear power plant has put its 650,000-kw expansion power generator unit into test run and connected it to the national electric power grid on Sunday, three months earlier than expected. Previously we had reviewed the nuclear reactors that were expected to start in 2010 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is the Boris Yakobson interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Yakobson is a materials science professor at Rice University, which was the University which initially discovered buckyballs and had key discoveries in the development of buckytubes and nanotubes. Dr. Yakobson has done groundbreaking research on both …
Tri-alpha energy has reportedly raised another $50 million. Tri-alpha energy is a stealth company that is pursuing commercial nuclear fusion using field reversed configuration colliding beam fusion. Here is an article from 2007 when they raised $40 million. And I review some of their recent patents here. The FRC plant layout from the 2010 patent …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lab-on-Bead uses tiny beads studded with “pins” that match a drug to a disease marker in a single step, so researchers can test an infinite number millions of possibilities for treatments all at once. When Lab-on-Bead makes a match, it has found a viable treatment for …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Earth has changed technology and shifted from using leaky radio signals and broadcasting radios to fiber optics and short range wireless. If aliens followed our pattern then SETI is analogous to a system of detecting teenagers who have their music set to a volume of eleven. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A sealing cap is to be installed this weekend that will enable up to 60,000 to 80,000 barrels per day to be captured and provide accurate measurement of the flow rate. BP could start replacing the current cap with a new sealing cap as early as …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software By 2014, EPA modeling projects that implementation of the Transport Rule, as proposed, combined with other state and EPA actions, would reduce 2005 emissions from electric generating units in the covered states by: – 6.3 million tons of SO2 per year – 1.4 million tons of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software President Barack Obama is expected to sign a memorandum Monday to nearly double the amount of federal and commercial spectrum available for smart phones and wireless Internet devices The move comes several months after the two federal agencies that control the nation’s airwaves—the Federal Communications Commission …