Craig Venter’s new company wants to improve human longevity by creating the world’s largest, most comprehensive database of genetic and physiological information. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) is a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company. HLI will use advances in genomic sequencing, understanding the human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies to …
There is more research into the Dwave Systems quantum annealing adiabatic system (503 qubit version). Researchers from UCL (University College of London) and USC (University of Southern California) researchers have ruled out several classical models for the D-Wave Two, including the SSSV model and giving indirect evidence for up to 40 qubit entanglement in a …
The ENO center for transportation has a study of what needs to be done to prepare for a nation of self driving cars. Some day in the near future, cars will drive themselves. Traffic jams and deadly accidents will become obsolete. 37% of people would probably or definitely buy a self driving car if the …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 160 is up at Yes Vermont Yankee SONGS [San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station] to retire, decommission, posted by Will Davis at ANS Nuclear Café. The latest news on the recent decision to retire the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California. The post includes information from a press teleconference held …
The Carnival of Space 294 is up at Dear Astronomer The Meridiani Journal wonders Are alien oceans common? One of the unique characteristics of Earth which sets it apart from other known planets is its oceans. Such large bodies of surface water have not yet been found elsewhere, although a number of moons, including Europa, …
Japan has extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate — sometimes called “flammable ice” — a breakthrough that officials and experts said could be a step toward tapping a promising but still little-understood energy source. Japan hopes to make methane hydrate commercially viable in 5 years. With specialized equipment, the team drilled into and …
VR-zone – The most recent expectations from last year’s supercomputing events, of 100 petaflops in 2015 and 1 exaflop in 2018, seems to be too pessimistic, after all. What’s enabling the sudden push? Improvements in processors from Intel, AMD and Nvidia indicate that a 1U or blade HPC server will have 7 TeraFLOPs of peak …
This is the Hesco portable linear accelerator system for high energy x-ray inspection of concrete in bridges. This is an overview of the market in infrastructure inspection and the current high energy x-ray examination system. Click on the picture to expand the table of concrete inspection techniques Diagnosis Evaluation and repair of deteriorated concrete bridges …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software North Dakota set a per-day record of 261,000 barrels in February. Before the infrastructure improvements, the state’s pipeline, rail and refining capacity was only 189,000 barrels a day. Now, based on recent investments, that capacity is about 400,000 barrels a day. It should be enough to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. The first of India’s Russian-designed nuclear power reactors has taken a step closer to start-up with the loading of dummy fuel assemblies into the core of Kudankulam 1. The plant is one of two Russian-supplied 950 MWe VVER pressurised water reactors currently being built by …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software UK Daily Mail – A routine traffic-stop in Switzerland has allegedly thwarted eco-terrorists from blowing up the site of the £55million nano-technology HQ of IBM in Europe. The three members – two men and a woman – of the Italian terrorist group Il Silvestre were stopped …