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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software A new analysis of the structure of silks explains the paradox at the heart of their super-strength, and may lead to even stronger synthetic materials. Scientists at MIT have unraveled some of their deepest secrets in research that could lead the way to the creation of synthetic …
MIT researchers have developed a system that can wirelessly transfer power to multiple electronic devices simultaneously with high efficiency (over 50%). 25 watts of power was supplied to each of two electronic devices located two meters or more from the source coil (3 page pdf) Simultaneous mid-range power transfer to multiple devices The approach of …
Boston Globe 2006: what israeli security could teach us” The safest airline in the world, it is widely agreed, is El Al, Israel’s national carrier. The safest airport is Ben Gurion International, in Tel Aviv. No El Al plane has been attacked by terrorists in more than three decades, and no flight leaving Ben Gurion …
Life expectancy at birth is 77.9 years based on just released Preliminary data for 2007 US Life expectancy was 77.7 years based on final 2006 data 135 page pdf of life and death statistics for 2006 Age-adjusted death rates in 2007 decreased significantly from 2006 for 8 of the 15 leading causes of death: Diseases …
AMD laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2010 and 2011, involving its much-hyped Fusion products as well as a slew of new processor technologies. * Fusion is the combination of a GPU and CPU on one die. The graphics processor is now referred to as an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). AMD expects to make the …
The last poll results are here The top results were: Improve humanity (safe singularity) 59 out of 284 (21%)Effective anti-aging treatment 56 out of 284 (20%)Stronger economy (triple growth or more) 55 out of 284 (19%)Peak Oil solutions 32 out of 284 (11%)Reduce CO2 from transportation and energy 20 out of 284 (7%)Cure disease (cancer, …
The Carnival of Space 34 is up at Rainer Gerhards space launch blog. I provided my updated look at the status of scramjets Colony Worlds considers gravity suits for offworld children A Babe in the Universe reports on the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission to study the moon There is a lot of speculation …
Neutron cameras “can detect, unambiguously, at a greater distance, and through more shielding,” said Jim Lund, manager of the Rad/Nuc Detection Systems group at Sandia National Laboratories in Alameda, Calif. The neutron scatter camera has an advantage over traditional neutron detection because it can differentiate low energy neutrons from high energy neutrons. While some gamma …
Kovio, sunnyvale startup, jas the world’s first all-printed silicon transistor capability. They will have roll to roll printing of computers. This is clearly a process that will get even better as the design rules shrink and as they use faster printing technology like Memjet This technology also has implications for better fabbers, rapid prototyping and …
SiCortex and Scalable Servers Corporation have each packaged something like a server cluster into a single box, to produce what each hopes will be a commercially viable desktop supercomputer. On the outside, the machines in question look like big desktop PCs. On the inside, they are rather different. Instead of one or two microprocessors (the …