Digital Movie Theaters converted to 4K starting in 2012 and Affordable 4K...
Digital movies in movie theaters project at 2K (2048×1080 or 2.2 megapixels) or 4K (4096×2160 or 8.8 megapixels). DCI-compliant DLP projectors were available in 2K only, but from early 2012, when TI's...
View ArticleTrade Data Suggests China, US and Europe economies could be leveling off
This is a follow up to a Nextbigfuture article where a Goldman analyst posited that the world economic shocks might be over for a while.WSJ - China's economy is showing signs of stabilizing after a...
View Article3-D Printing Body Parts Will Revolutionize Medicine and it is at a tipping...
In two decades, 3-D printing has grown from a niche manufacturing process to a $2.7-billion industry, responsible for the fabrication of all sorts of things: toys, wristwatches, airplane parts, food....
View ArticleQ-Glasses Could Be a New Class of Solids
A team of researchers has reported possible evidence for a new category of solids, things that are neither pure glasses, crystals, nor even exotic quasicrystals.Q-glass, a new solid alloy that has...
View ArticleRobot uses steerable needles to treat brain clots
A collaboration between Vanderbilt mechanical engineer Robert Webster and neurosurgeon Kyle Weaver has designed a special robotic system that uses tiny, steerable needles to suction out brain clots...
View ArticleTechnical Details from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics at Google Solve for X
This presentation is a follow up to the 10 minute presentation given previously at Solve For x Google's Fusion Brainstorming conference held on June 11, 2013 at Mountain View, CA. This is an in depth,...
View ArticleSimulated Nuclear Exchange Between the US and China
The analysis [Federation of American Scientist] of the numbers, characteristics and deployment of the strategic nuclear forces of China and the United States presented in this study raises the question...
View ArticleFirst Real-Time MRI-Guided Gene Therapy for Brain Cancer
Neurosurgeons at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are among the first in the world to utilize real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...
View ArticleStiffening self assembled duplex and quadruplex stranded DNA nanofibers for...
Researchers have fabricated a self-assembled nanofiber from a DNA building block that contains both duplex (two-stranded) and quadruplex (four-stranded) DNA. This work is a first step toward the...
View ArticleCarnival of Nuclear Energy 169
1. At Nuke Power Talk, Gail Marcus talks about a recent Time magazine article on new nuclear plants that was quite favorable on the need for nuclear power, and optimistic about its prospects. She...
View ArticleA practical new approach to holographic video could also enable better 2-D...
MIT reported a new approach to generating holograms that could lead to color holographic-video displays that are much cheaper to manufacture than today’s experimental, monochromatic displays. The same...
View ArticleElon Musk has released technical details of the Hyperloop transportation...
The Hyperloop announcement today at 1:30 PDT. Elon Musk tweeted- Pulled all nighter working on Hyperloop (as did others). Hopefully not too many mistakes. I will update this posting as news is...
View ArticleElon Musk Hyperloop all the technical details of the Alpha design of the...
The Hyperloop design is trying to achieve the following objectives. (57 page pdf)The tesla motors pdf copy could get overloaded. Here is the pdf on Spacex * Safer * Faster * Lower cost * More...
View ArticleHyperloop Capsule
Elon Musk revealed the details of his Hyperloop transportation concept. Here are details of about the capsule and compressor.Hyperloop Passenger CapsuleThe maximum width is 4.43 ft (1.35 m) and maximum...
View ArticleCosts Breakdown of the Hyperloop
A high speed transportation system known as Hyperloop has been developed in this document. The work has detailed two version of the Hyperloop: a passenger only version and a passenger plus vehicle...
View ArticleEasily Retrievable Objects Among the Near Earth Object Population
Asteroids and comets are of strategic importance for science in an effort to understand the formation, evolution and composition of the Solar System. Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are of particular...
View ArticleCarnival of Space 314
The Carnival of Space 314 is up at Dear Astronomer.Universe Today - A new project that aims to map the Universe’s structure has looked back in time to create a 3-D map showing a portion of the Universe...
View ArticleGene Therapy for Rare Diseases
A San Francisco startup called Audentes Therapeutics has $30 million in funding to develop gene therapy for rare diseases Netherlands-based UniQure broke through in November, 2012 with the first gene...
View ArticleRise of Cell Therapy Trials for Stroke: Review of Published and Registered...
Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability worldwide. Approximately 16 million first-ever strokes occur each year, leading to nearly 6 million deaths....
View ArticleScientists genetically modify T cells derived from pluripotent stem cells to...
scientists have combined the ability to reprogram stem cells into T cells with a recently developed strategy for genetically modifying patients’ own T cells to seek and destroy tumors. The result is...
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