DailyTech – Scientists Develop “Lightsaber” to Fight Cancer The miniature device, just a few millimeters long extends a “lightsaber” laser beam. The beam is so accurate it can target a single cell. The device would be perfect for hard to reach cancers that typically have high fatality rates, such as cancer of the pancreas. The [...]
DailyTech – MIT Scientist Claims Solar Breakthrough, Sparks Controversy Daniel Nocera PhD, a professor of chemistry at MIT, devised a catalyst system using strips of cobalt, nickel, and phosphate, all relatively inexpensive chemical compounds. By eschewing expensive catalysts like platinum, the cost of the system is kept low. So why didn’t others think of this [...]
DailyTech – Pleistocene Park? Scientists Almost Done Mapping Mammoth DNA Visions of resurrecting prehistoric animals are getting a big boost from high-tech gene sequencing methods
DailyTech – Massive Ice Glaciers Found in Non-Polar Regions of Mars Scientists used radar probes aboard the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to help discover low, wide glaciers about half a mile thick can be found under layers of rocky debris on Mars. This discovery is the biggest find of water away from the planet’s northern [...]
DailyTech – Scientists Grow New Frog Eyes From Stem Cells Supporters of the stem cell approach got a big boost from new research at the SUNY Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, NY. Researcher Michael Zuber and his colleagues report that by taking stem cells from frog eggs, they’re able to prod the cells to grow [...]
DailyTech – Fujitsu Laboratories Develops Wrap Around Video for Drivers Fujitsu technology creates all around view for car drivers to enhance awareness
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | IBM to build brain-like computers IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. The longer-term goal is to create a system with the level of complexity of a cat’s brain.
DailyTech – NASA Testing New Interplanetary Communications Network NASA has announced that it is now testing a new type of deep space communications, and while we are still far from the sub-space communications we see on sci-fi shows, the new system is a significant improvement over existing communications methods. NASA is comparing the new communications [...]
DailyTech – NVIDIA Launches Tesla Supercomputer Tesla Supercomputer uses up to 960 parallel processing cores The Tesla Supercomputer is based on NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture allowing the system to be programmed in the C language. Up to 960 parallel processing cores can be placed inside the system. NVIDIA claims that Tesla Supercomputers are in use in [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Developing Grenade-like Surveillance Camera A new “grenade” camera could be used to help keep soldiers on the battlefield safer The “I-Ball” camera has an internal camera that offers a full 360 degree view of the entire area, and provides high-quality images filmed in real-time video, according to researchers. It is able to [...]
DailyTech – New Wind Turbine Generator Ditches Mechanical Transmission, Ups Efficiency 50 Percent New wind generator design takes advantage of an advanced electrical transmission to decrease cost while boosting performance The new generator scraps the mechanical transmission, replacing it with an electrical one. The new transmission still requires a bit of blade pitching when winds [...]
DailyTech – Samsung Producing 256GB SSD with Higher Levels of Performance Samsung 256GB SSD with significantly higher performance is now in mass production Samsung says that the SSD offers sequential read rates of 220MB/s with sequential write rates of 200MB/s. The SSD can also erase data at 100GBs per minute allowing for faster rewrites.
DailyTech – Extrasolar Planet’s Missing Water Discovered A new analysis again suggests that gas giant HD209458b currently has water in its atmosphere. The planet — nicknamed Osiris — is 150 light years away from Earth, located in the Pegasus constellation. The planet was first detected in late November 1999, with the help of astronomical spectroscopy.
DailyTech – First Pictures of Extrasolar Planets Taken Beautiful new images reveal our first visual glimpse that other solar systems share planets just like ours does he new images, developed by NASA and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are the first-ever pictures taken from the visible spectrum, glimpsed by the Gemini North and Keck telescopes [...]
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