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Progress made to improve gene therapy for treating disease without dose...
For many disabling or fatal diseases, there is pre-clinical or clinical evidence of the potential therapeutic benefits of gene therapy. Unfortunately, the limitations of current gene transfer...
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Global Economic Outlook to 2017 with a lot of risks according to leading...
Dun and Bradstreet have a global economic outlook for the next 5 years. The recovery from the 2008-2009 recession is the slowest and most problematic of the past century, highlighted by changes in D...
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Elon Musk shows innovation comes from outsiders with fresh viewpoints
Elon Musk’s career stands in contrast to what David Burkus calls the Expert Myth, one of many myths, or faulty beliefs, we have about creative people. The Expert Myth claims that innovation is...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 171
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 171 is up at Atomic Power ReviewAtomic Insights reviews how the major news outlets (CNN, Fox, Reuters etc...) all repeated the claims of a paper written by a political...
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Moore's law will hit an economic wall sometime in early 2020s
Moore's Law -- the ability to pack twice as many transistors on the same sliver of silicon every two years -- will come to an end as soon as 2020 at the 7nm node says Robert Colwell who now works for...
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First mini-lungs, mini-kidneys and mini-hearts and now mini-brains have been...
Minibrains have been grown from stem cells. They grew 2-3 millimeters (0.08-0.1 in) in diameter, and have survived in lab dishes for 10 months so far. This is the size and has some of the structure of...
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Carnival of Space 316
1. Universe Today Free-floating rogue planets are intriguing objects. The leading theory on how these nomadic planets came to exist is that they were they ejected from their parent star system. But new...
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3D Printing simplifies Jet Engines and Elon Musk developing Iron Man Like...
Elon Musk tweeted two days ago tha Spacex has figured out how to design rocket parts just with hand movements. Spacex will post a video of the process next week. They then use 3d printing to make the...
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High efficiency generation of super intense x-rays from materials produced by...
DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) awarded a SBIR Phase I contract to investigate commercial potential of super-intense x-ray generation with MIMS (Metastable Innershell Molecular State) in the...
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Nanostars produced from 100 kilometer per second impacts of carbon buckyballs...
Dr. Bae gave an oral presentation and a poster presentation with Los Alamos National Lab on "Creating Nanostars with Buckyballs (C60)" at APS-SCCM Conference on July 8th and 9th. Nanostars have been...
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US hits another post-1989 Crude oil production record of 7.6 million barrels...
US crude oil production hit another post-1989 crude oil production record of 7.6 million barrels per day. This is about 20% higher than crude oil production last year. There should be about 100,000...
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ARPA-E still trying to commercialize Wave Disk Engine and four other...
Five ARPA-E project teams were selected to participate in the upcoming National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, program. This 18 month program started at the beginning of 2013...
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Huawei, Samsung, Nokia are planning to begin deploying 5G mobile wireless at...
Mobile broadband technologies have always been introduced before widespread rollout of the network itself, and 5G will be no exception, Zhou observed. Technologies behind LTE for example, came out in...
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Hydroxyl from deep inside the moon has been detected
NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 probe has made the first detection of "magmatic water" from lunar orbit and confirms analyses performed recently on moon rocks...
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Water in the solar system
The main places in the solar system with a lot of water: Europa - two to three times as much water as Earth is on Jupiter's moon Earth - 1,260,000 trillion tons Ceres (one-tenth of the total water in...
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Air Pollution Causes about 200,000 premature deaths each year in the USA
A MIT group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United...
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Philippines matches China's GDP growth for half of one year
The Philippines expanded an annual 7.5 percent in the second quarter, above the 7.3 percent market estimate, and compared with a revised 7.7 percent in the first three months of the year. The Southeast...
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Better armor, better robots and other DARPA projects for 2014
DARPA has its budget for 2014. DARPA has several projects related cyber warfare defense and offense. (Big data and social network analysis, various cyber security research projects) DARPA has a lot of...
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Update on the DARPA project that was looking at cold fusion
A DARPA project Fundamentals of Nanoscale and Emergent Effects and Engineered Devices was described in 2012 in a way which clearly indicated that they were investigating aspects of cold fusion for...
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DARPA projects to either improve GPS or remove vulnerability to loss of...
DARPA has its budget for 2014.Basic Photon Science FY 2012 21.5 million FY 2013 25.2 million FY 2014 18.9 million FY 2014 Plans: - Demonstrate a 10 Gigahertz (GHz) oscillator using optical frequency...
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