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HP announced today that it will be cooperating with the Korean company Seoul-based Hynix in order to develop/mass produce “the memristor” or ReRam. Which should decrease the space needed to store memory by at least two times, as well as increasing the speed of at which the information stored on memory can be retrieved.
The advent of new techniques have allowed genetic engineers to now simply edit/alter genomes as one would alter a program on a computer. After which the scientist will implant the DNA in a cell. This will allow experiments to be accelerated by tens if not hundreds of times.
Due to a court ruling on August 23rd, 2010 all stem cell research came to a halt claiming:
“The American people should not be forced to pay for experiments — prohibited by federal law — that destroy human life,” said Steven H. Aden, the group’s senior legal counsel. “The court is simply enforcing an existing law passed by Congress that prevents Americans from paying another penny for needless research on human embryos.”
Quote @ Localtechwire
Since the creation of the Automobile it has been a symbol of freedom, freedom to do what you want, when you want. Without anyone knowing one day you could simply take off and travel the country for months, or maybe for only an afternoon. Now, however, with computers built into cars, you will never have the luxury of simply disappearing, or even have the ability to safe guard your car.
A new devise capable of converting sun and heat into energy has been tested and is currently working in the depths of Stanford University!
Spider silk for decades has been known to be light weight and much stronger than steel, has finally begun to become easier to harvest due to biologically engineered bacteria.
According to a recent study and several previous studies, restricting calorie intake can drastically increase your life span.
With the advent of fiber optic cables, and Googles plan to install fiber optic cables strait to the house holds of america; the need for a computer run on fiber optics, over the groggy copper wire is greater than ever. Luckily within the next few years computers with fiber optic cables will become available, read the story below:
Last week, Paniccia’s team demonstrated the first complete photonic communications system made from components fully integrated into silicon chips. Electronic data piped into one chip is converted into laser light that travels down an optical fiber and is transferred back into electrical signals a few fractions of a second later. The system can carry data at a rate of 50 gigabytes per second, enough to transfer a full-length HD movie in less than a second.
The silicon photonic chips could replace the electronic connections between a computer’s key components, such as its processors and memory. Copper wiring used today can carry data signals at little more than 10 gigabytes per second. That means critical components like the central processing unit and the memory in a server cannot be too far apart, which restricts how computers can be built.
The new Intel setup has four lasers built into its transmitter chip that shine data into a single optical fiber at slightly different wavelengths, or “colors.” Chips with even more lasers should make it possible to communicate at 1,000 gigabytes per second.
Full story @MIT Technology Review
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When the body grows new tissue, cells secrete fibronectin–a strong, stretchy type of protein that acts as a supportive scaffold. The shape and structure that fibronectin adopts directs the subsequent growth of new cells, giving the resulting tissue the correct form.
Parker’s team creates the fabric by depositing fibronectin molecules on top of a water-repelling polymer surface. This causes the proteins, which are normally bundled up, to unravel. Next, the protein layer is stamped onto a dissolvable, water-attracting polymer sheet on top of a piece of glass. Adding water and warming the mixture to room temperature makes the proteins link together to form the fabric. It also dissolves the polymer so that the fabric can be peeled away and collected.
Read full article @MIT Technology Review
With the budget restrictions placed on NASA, and significant cut of government contracts/funding heading into the commercial space flight sector, will an American astronaut ever again head into space?
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