Building products atom by atom. See nanofactory.
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- New nanotechnology to speed up computers
- New nanotechnology to speed up computersNanotechnology & ComputersHopefully this will lead to a computers that will fix itselfon the fly when it detects a problem......physically reroute around the damaged spot, rebuild it then reroute itself back to the originally circuit.Welcome to the future HAL/IBM :-)
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Science Data Reference System (zip)
- Provides over 30 data reference tables and databases of information for Chemistry, Physics and Biology. The system also provides a number of tools including a scientific calculator that can calculate molecular mass, a triangle calculator, an electrical circuit calculator, an area and volume calculator, an angle converter and an area...
- Software downloads 2008-09-30
- New nanotechnology to speed up computers
- University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- A tribute to Pop
- It's been a rough week up here in our neck of the woods. Sure, global financial markets are collapsing, Sarah Palin's email got hacked, the wars in the Middle East show no signs of ending...You get the idea. However, for us, we've been taking care of my wife's...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators
- In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol PVA to develop ultra-lightweight actuators for aerospace applications. The scientists have developed a paper-like sheet which bends when the material is electrically stimulated. As said one of the lead...
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Secret of red wine revealed
- Secret of red wine revealedDanish studyDana, I'm not disputing their study, but a lot of the "red wine is helpful" buzz came from what is known as "the Danish Study". Denmark has an extremely immobile population where almost everyone drinks and it is almost exactly equal one-third beer drinkers,...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- News to know: Windows 7 Beta; Google; $2,000 PC; Gates & Seinfeld; iTunes 8 fix
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Secunia launches pay-as-you-go exploit shop Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC Gallery: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo...
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Nanotechnology coming soon to IMAX
- This winter, nanotechnology will be coming to an IMAX theater near you. A 40-minute movie, 'Molecules to the MAX,' will start its career on giant screens. This movie has very peculiar characteristics. First, it has been produced at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI by the director of the university's nanotechnology...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- News to know: DEMO, Google, Live Mesh apps, Microsoft PCs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business? OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- 68 molecular building blocks of life
- A researcher from the University of California at San Diego UCSD claims that 68 molecules can explain the origins of many serious diseases. After reviewing findings from multiple disciplines, he 'realized that only 68 molecular building blocks are used to construct these four fundamental components of cells: the nucleic acids...
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Chemspread PRO (exe)
- Free Java Applet is a chemistry spreadsheet calculator - balances virtually any chemical equation and follows up with stoichiometry calculations as well as equillibruim calculations. Percentage mass, titrations, ideal and non-ideal gases. Knows the periodic table and computes molecular weight of all entries. Partial pressures and Van der Waal equation....
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- Reconstructing Chemical Reaction Networks: Data Mining Meets System Identification
- This paper presents an approach to reconstructing chemical reaction networks from time series measurements of the concentrations of the molecules involved. The solution strategy combines techniques from numerical sensitivity analysis and probabilistic graphical models. By modeling a chemical re-action system as a Markov network undirected graphical model, the paper shows...
- White papers 2008-08-27
- News to know: Geek sheets; Cuil; Apple; DNS patch
- Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives SSDs and Linux Gallery: Crucial Micron Solid State Drives My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft way with Apache ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Nanotechnology adds vital enzyme to water
- Nanotechnology adds vital enzyme to waterIf it's so common, why do we need more of it?Mmk, I've never heard of this emzyme, or anybody suffering from a lack of it, so I assume that it's readily available and/or easily created by our bodies.So, do we [b]really[/b] need to add this...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-27
- Nanotechnology adds vital enzyme to water
- If you're like me, you've never heard about CoQ10 before today. I've discovered that this coenzyme, also known as ubiquinone, is a substance that's found in every cell of our bodies and as vital to our survival as vitamin C. Even if we're able to create our own CoQ10, our...
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- One prediction about climate change challenges another
- One prediction about climate change challenges anotherWhen myths collideThere never was a hole. It was a thinning of the ozone layer.Any first year chem student could tell you it's impossible for ozone to disappear in the presence of sunlight, since ozone is created by the bombardment of short UV with...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Monitoring our immune system
- You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
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