TechCrunch – Elon Musk has had a significant role Musk in creating at least four so far that are worth over $50 billion. Not about Risk Taking but getting things done to Solve Big Problems for a Bright Future One audience member asked, how could we get more Elon Musks? Is the entrepreneurial mindset and …
A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers finds that a starvation hormone markedly extends life span in mice without the need for calorie restriction. “Restricting food intake has been shown to extend lifespan in several different kinds of animals. In our study, we found transgenic mice that produced more of the hormone fibroblast growth …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 104 is up at Atomic Power Review Atomic Insights Nuclear fission qualifies as “ultra low carbon” power; natural gas does not In the power system marketing wars, both nuclear fission and natural gas are currently labeled as “low carbon” sources of electricity. Even though nuclear fission reactors can be clean …
Nature Nanotechnology – Electrical control of a solid-state flying qubit Solid-state approaches to quantum information technology are attractive because they are scalable. The coherent transport of quantum information over large distances is a requirement for any practical quantum computer and has been demonstrated by coupling super-conducting qubits to photons1. Single electrons have also been transferred …
A team of Australian scientists involving the University of Adelaide has bred salt tolerance into a variety of durum wheat that shows improved grain yield by 25% on salty soils. Using ‘non-GM’ crop breeding techniques, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry have introduced a salt-tolerant gene into a commercial durum wheat, with spectacular results shown in …
Nextbigfuture has covered nuclear thermal gaseous core reactor rockets before We will review nuclear thermal gaseous core reactor rockets again in light of the new Bifrost project for nuclear thermal rockets. We had an interview with Tabitha Smith who is leading that project A brief recap of the Liberty ship and then some information on …
Elon Musk announces a milestone towards a reusable rocket Twitter – Design completed for bringing rocket back to launchpad using only thrusters. 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 with 1 million readers …
A portable and compact photolithography system based on a solid-state light source of UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is described. Solid-state photolithography can achieve high-quality patterns over a wide range of length scales at a fraction of the cost of contact mask aligners. 2D nanoscale and 1D microscale patterns can easily be created. A new portable …
1. Cool Hand Nuke – The Dalai Lama and nuclear energy – An amazing surprise for anti nuclear groups Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, a revered spiritual leader whose influence is felt far beyond the boundaries of Tibetan Buddhism, startled his followers and the anti-nuclear community this week. In an interview …
Oct 13, 2011, the Google translate app now can translate among 14 spoken languages. Along with English and Spanish, the app now translates between Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The number of languages supported for text and text-to-speech translations continues to grow, with 63 languages …
UK Guaridan – Uruguay, like other South American economies, ran into its own debt crisis in 2003. Uruguay was able, via a $1.5 billion bridging loan from the US treasury, to open negotiations with its creditors, overseen by the IMF. A bond-swap was offered, replacing shorter-term bonds with longer maturities. Over 90% of bond-holders agreed …