tissue engineering

US Watts Bar 2 reactor on schedule for Dec 2015 and Pakistan and Jordan each getting two more nuclear reactors which is part of a nuclear energy trend for Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America

by

1. Work to complete Watts Bar 2 remains on course and on budget with commercial operation likely to start in December 2015, according to the latest update on the project issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The fifth quarterly update on the project to complete the 1165 MWe pressurised water reactor covers the period …

Read more

Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded from 8.4 tesla magnets to 11 to 13 tesla

by

Oxford Instruments will work with CERN for the next generation upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to high luminosity. The proposed HiLumi upgrade will enable a significant increase in the proton collision rate and extend the physics reach of the LHC. This requires the deployment of high field 11-13 Tesla magnets constructed with Nb3Sn …

Read more

Spacex Grasshopper reusable rocket flies to 744 meters and back

by

On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744 meter altitude. This is two and half times the previous height of about 300 meters. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff …

Read more

New hydrophobic material could benefit power plants, cooling systems.

by

Steam condensation is key to the worldwide production of electricity and clean water: It is part of the power cycle that drives 85 percent of all electricity-generating plants and about half of all desalination plants globally, according to the United Nations and International Energy Agency. So anything that improves the efficiency of this process could …

Read more

How many jobs are most endangered by new technology and changing economies ?

by

A recent report from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify what jobs are must vulnerable to computerization. It concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being taken by computers within the next two decades. 1) Computers will start replacing people in especially …

Read more

IDC High Performance Computing Conference validates Quantum Computing as entering the mainstream

by

Yesterday the first time the IDC HPC user forum has had a session on quantum computing. There an entire session on quantum computing and the keynote speaker at the event was Charlie Bennett, an IBM Fellow who is well-known to quantum information folks, as (among other things) he co-invented quantum cryptography. * Geordie Rose (CTO …

Read more

Intel outlines the transition to 3D NAND to carry us beyond the 10 nanometer limit

by

IM Flash Technologies LLC, the joint venture between Intel and Micron Technologies, is considering how and when to take its NAND flash memory ICs into the third dimension but reckons its development of a 20-nm memory cell has bought it a generation or two of 2-D scaling. An industry-wide transition for the nonvolatile NAND flash …

Read more

PS4 will bring sub-$250 per teraflops to the mainstream later this year

by

The new Sony PS4 will have 1.84 teraflops of performance. The rumored price will be about $400 and it should be available in about Nov, 2013 If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger …

Read more

Death of PCs and Battle for Developers and Software Solutions

by

Sales of traditional PCs are collapsing faster than anyone expected. The latest IDC report released this month that says PC sales are down 14% year over year. IDC talks about Windows 8 – While some consumers appreciate the new form factors and touch capabilities of Windows 8, the radical changes to the UI, removal of …

Read more