• Carbon Nanotubes: Notable Developments of 2009

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:57:23
    : Man's Next Migration by Dr . Spencer Home Man's Next Migration Book Feedback Blog Think Tank Join ThinkTank News Links Featured News Space Exploration Today Habitable Planets Technology Updates News Archive Weekly Newsletter Forum Recent Posts Thread List Active Topics Free Membership Subscriptions Exclusive Premier Members Member Scholarship About Us Global Team Space Center Skydets Login Logout Forgot Password Carbon Nanotubes : Notable Developments of 2009 January 10, 2010 Space Age Technology by Goldilocks Mission Blog Ever since scientists discovered the incredulous tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and its unique properties , the wonder material has found numerous applications in various technologies but has yet to fulfill its part in what made it famous the first time , the

  • Palmy Conditions on the Route to Esters

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:57:14
    A heterogeneous porous Sr–MgO nanocomposite catalyst allows for the mild transesterification of palm oil to methanol

  • Computer Simulation Predicts New Allotrope Of Carbon

    Updated: 2012-02-29 05:10:00
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  • Events

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  • Seeing at the Nanoscale

    Updated: 2012-02-29 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 9 Jul 2012 - 11 Jul 2012, Bristol, United Kingdom. Organized by Bruker.

  • Seeing at the Nanoscale

    Updated: 2012-02-29 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 9 Jul 2012 - 11 Jul 2012, Bristol, United Kingdom. Organized by Bruker.

  • State of the Art in Biodegradable Metals - A Think-Tank Workshop

    Updated: 2012-02-28 00:00:00
    Workshop: 30 Mar 2012, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. Organized by Leon Esterowitz, National Science Foundation (NSF) Frank Witte, MD, MHH, Hannover, Germany Jag Sankar, NCA&T SU, NC Steven Pollack, FDA William Herman, FDA .

  • Video - The Technomagic of Sphero

    Updated: 2012-02-27 05:00:00
    Wireless battery charging and remote control via a Bluetooth-based smart-phone app gives this robot toy its appeal.

  • io9 is skeptical…

    Updated: 2012-02-26 02:03:56
    Robert Gonzalez from io9 is skeptical about the promotional claim made by Obayashi that they want to build a Space Elevator by 2050.  While I indicated in my own post on the matter that I thought the Obayashi story was “more concept than engineering“, I’m not as skeptical as he is about the final end-product… Mr. [...]

  • Of Mice and Men and Medicines | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-24 14:55:00
    You won’t find more mentally ill mice per square mile anywhere than in Bar Harbor, Maine. Mice who seem anxious or depressed, autistic or schizophrenic—they congregate here. Mice who model learning disabilities or anorexia; mice who hop around as though your hyperactive nephew had contracted into a tiny fur ball; they are here too. Name an affliction of the human mind, and you can probably find its avatar on this sprucy, secluded island. The imbalanced mice are kept under the strictest security, in locked wards at the Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical facility internationally renowned for its specially bred deranged rodents. Every day trucks carry away boxes and boxes of them for distribution to psychiatric researchers across the nation. There are no visiting hours, because strangers fluster the mice and might carry in contagious diseases. The animals are attended only by highly qualified caregivers, people like neuroscientist Elissa Chesler. Sitting in her airy Jackson Lab office, accessible to germy and perturbing strangers, Chesler clicks open a series of photographs from a type of mouse personality test on her computer screen. The first picture shows a mouse sleeping on a nestlet, a stiff, square bed of compressed cotton. Mice typically gnaw vigorously at the cotton, shredding it to make soft igloos for sleeping and staying warm. The second image shows a mouse that has propped his nestlet against a wall, forming a makeshift lean-to. “When I see this guy, I’m thinking anxiety,” says Chesler, whose research delves into the genetics of stress. “This design isn’t trapping a lot of heat, but he’s secure under there.” She smiles as she clicks open the last photo. “And here we have the ‘I can’t deal with it’ mouse,” she says. The image shows a mouse asleep, with his rigid nestlet balanced on his back. Personality, Chesler maintains, can be read from these nestlet styles more clearly than from a test of forced swimming or bar pressing...

  • A Space Elevator by 2050?

    Updated: 2012-02-23 00:02:01
    I had several people email me today with the story that the Japanese Construction company Obayashi is making plans to build a space elevator. The original story is in Obayashi’s Quarterly Magazine #53 and was announced in a Press Release which you can view online, in Japanese of course (you can use Google Chrome to view [...]

  • NC State Integrates Nanotechnology into Their Curriculum with NanoProfessor Purchase

    Updated: 2012-02-21 22:09:41
    NanoProfessor, a division of NanoInk, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today that North Central State College (NC State) in Mansfield, Ohio took the first step to integrating...

  • Winners of NT-MDT's ProIMAGE AFM Competition Have Been Announced

    Updated: 2012-02-21 14:00:21
    The competition of AFM-images obtained with NT-MDT probes, ProIMAGE Contest 2011 has concluded. Participants from all over the world submitted their images. NT-MDT collected a great scan-gallery of...

  • Asylum Research Announce Advanced AFM Workshop at UIUC

    Updated: 2012-02-19 22:08:00
    Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe and atomic force microscopy (SPM/AFM) and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (FSMRL) at the University of Illinois Urbana...

  • LEGOs and the Space Elevator

    Updated: 2012-02-18 17:36:46
    Over the past several years, I have posted multiple entries on this blog about Space Elevators and Legos.  The two seem to go together like fish and chips or ham and eggs or Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.  Oh, wait… For several years now, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) has had an annual competition (LASER) [...]

  • 4 Bold Ideas to Make America’s Energy Supply 
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  • CLIMB Volume 2 - Call for Papers

    Updated: 2012-02-16 04:09:20
    Now that ISEC has finally succeeded in publishing and releasing Volume 1 of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal, ISEC has now issued its official “Call for Papers” for Volume 2. This is the official “Call for Papers” for the second issue of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal.  We recently released our first issue of CLIMB - [...]

  • There's a Shot for That | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-15 17:55:00
    Two centuries ago Edward Jenner administered the first scientifically developed vaccine, injecting fluid from a dairymaid’s skin lesion into an 8-year-old boy. The English physician knew that dairymaids who contracted cowpox, a comparatively mild skin disease, became immune to the much deadlier smallpox, which at the time killed 400,000 Europeans a year. Jenner hoped the fluid from the cowpox lesion would somehow inoculate the boy against the smallpox scourge. 
His hunch proved correct. Today vaccines (vaccinia is Latin for “cowpox”) of all forms save 3 million lives per year worldwide, and at a bargain price. A measles shot, for instance, costs less than a dollar per dose. By training the human immune system to recognize and ward off dangerous pathogens, vaccines can protect against disease for decades, or even for a lifetime. Preventive vaccines work by introducing harmless microbial chemical markers, known as antigens, which resemble the markers on living microbes. The antigens train the immune system to recognize and destroy those microbes should they ever appear in the body. By injecting cowpox antigens into his patients’ bloodstream, for instance, Jenner primed their immune systems to attack the similar smallpox virus. Today medical scientists are taking 
Jenner’s ideas in new directions. They are exploiting a growing understanding of the immune system to develop therapeutic vaccines: ones aimed not at preventing infection but at rooting out established disease or even changing how the body functions...

  • The Brain: Our Strange, Important, Subconscious Light Detectors | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-15 15:20:00
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  • Learning new tricks from spiders…

    Updated: 2012-02-13 23:33:45
    In the February 2, 2012 issue of Nature, there is an article entitled “Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs”.  This article is, unfortunately, paywalled, but you can probably find a copy of the magazine at your local bookstore.  The Editor’s Summary of the article is as follows: Spider silk is one of nature’s [...]

  • ISPM 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-13 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Jun 2012 - 18 Jun 2012, Toronto, ON, Canada. Organized by Z. Leonenko, P.Grutter, G.Walker, C.Goh, J.Dutcher.

  • Industrial Technologies 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-10 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 19 Jun 2012 - 21 Jun 2012, Aarhus, Denmark. Organized by Aarhus University, Aalborg University, Spinverse Consulting.

  • Bruker Announce Call for Papers for Seeing at the Nanoscale Conference

    Updated: 2012-02-09 01:10:22
    Bruker announced today the call for papers for the 'Seeing at the Nanoscale 2012' conference, which will take place at the Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol, UK, from July 09-11, 2012....

  • Advancing Plastic Electronics with Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 22 Feb 2012, Sedgefield, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • Nano4Life 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 17 Apr 2012, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, GSK Stevenage site, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • HiPerNano 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Apr 2012, London, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • NanoMission Japan 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Feb 2012 - 17 Feb 2012, Tokyo,, Japan. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • Nano-enhanced Textiles

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 28 Feb 2012, London, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • International Scanning Probe Microscopy Meeting

    Updated: 2012-02-05 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Jun 2012 - 18 Jun 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Space Elevator Pocketbook ported to iPhone

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:55:58
    Early last year, I posted about an iPad app developed by Mr. Shigeo Saito of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA).  Recently I learned that he has ported this application from the iPad to the iPhone - so, if you have an iPhone (and, I think there are a few of you that do), then [...]

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