Frank Holmes, Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, makes a bullish case for China. The key to China’s economic growth isn’t “how fast?” or “how much?” The most critical question is “what’s driving it?” Strong income growth has triggered a rise in domestic consumption. CLSA says inflation-adjusted wages in urban areas rose 7.8 percent …
I was interviewed by the Voice of Russia America about the Russia plan to develop tunnels and bridges for connections across the Bering Strait Technically doable and I think there could be economic justification for oil pipeline The undersea pipeline as a first step looks very technically doable at first glance. The technical challenges are …
Astronomers using ESO’s world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets,including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star. By studying the properties of all the HARPS planets found so far, the team has found that about 40% of …
Michael Rae, SENS researcher provides highlights of the 40th American Aging Association (AGE) Conference The preconference “Late-onset intervention against aging: Tools, approaches, impact was organized by Aubrey de Grey. Prospects for Retarding Aging Some of the opening-day sessions were devoted to those few interventions based on perturbing metabolic determinants of aging to have demonstrated some …
Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe (FSEU) announces its first- generation 8-bit, 4-channel DAC in 40nm CMOS technology. This is the world’s fastest CMOS DAC for next-generation optical transport systems. It is a single-die solution for data conversion at 2 Tbps (terabits per second) to and from analogue to digital. With a sampling rate range of 55 – …
A Car-to-Car Communication System will get a trial involving thousands of cars. This could pave the way for technology aimed at cutting accidents and traffic jams. Many high-end cars already come with sensors capable of spotting a vehicle in a driver’s blind spot, or warning that the car is drifting out of lane. However, these …
In early August, the LPP research team—Eric Lerner, Aaron Blake, Derek Shannon and Fred Van Roessel, ably reinforced by visiting Kansas State University graduate students Mohamed Ismail and Amgad Mohamed, completed the re-assembly of the FF-1 upgrade. The upgrade, which involved reinforcing insulation on the device’s transmission plates and around its switches, prepared it for …
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By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide. Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Singapore’s Engineering Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have demonstrated a new technique that could produce chip features only 10 nanometers — or about 30 atoms — …
Nature Neuroscience – Scale: a chemical approach for fluorescence imaging and reconstruction of transparent mouse brain Scale, a new solution that turns tissue transparent without distorting its shape. Researchers can look into tissues without destructive cutting. After incubating the tissue in a concentrated urea solution for two weeks, the researchers could study the fine structure …
It was considered the great hope of the solar industry and a poster child for the government’s efforts to remake the U.S. economy with clean-tech as a linchpin. Now, after about $1 billion invested by venture capitalists, Solyndra Inc. has gone bust. The Fremont, Calif., company, which received a $535 million federal loan guarantee in …