From Jayme Hoffman at The Mission: Here’s a fun idea… If Apple wasn’t competing with Tesla and were to re-run it’s famous “Think Different” campaign, would you place Elon Musk among the group of “crazy ones?” He’s a rebel, a trouble maker and thinks he can change the world. Elon has a certain knack for thinking [...]
From Nanowerk news: Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces of protoplanetary disks, these new ALMA observations are the first to reveal that such spirals occur at the disk midplane, [...]
From Nanowerk News: Scientists have long suspected that the way materials behave on the nanoscale – that is when particles have dimensions of about 1–100 nanometres – is different from how they behave on any other scale. A new paper in the journal Chemical Science ("Solvation and surface effects on polymorph stabilities at the nanoscale") [...]
From Nanowerk news: Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects them from excessive light intensity. A team of researchers headed by Clemens Bechinger from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University [...]
Written by AZoNano: Cornell dots or C dots are nanoparticles that are emerging as promising therapeutic tools to detect and treat cancer. These nanoparticles were developed by Ulrich Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering at Cornell University over 12 years ago. These ultrasmall particles have now proved that they are capable of killing [...]
From Morgan Saletta at The Conversation: Planetary Resources, a company hoping to make asteroid mining into a trillion dollar industry, earlier this year unveiled the world’s first 3D printed object made from bits of an asteroid. 3D printing, and additive manufacturing processes more generally, have made many advances in recent years. Just a few years ago, [...]
From AZoNano: Textiles capable of producing electricity from physical movement have been known for a while. A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have gone a step further and created a fabric that can concurrently harvest energy using both motion and sunshine. Integrating two types of electricity generation into one fabric opens new [...]
Elon Musk is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Motors; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity; co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and founder of X.com which merged with PayPal of Confinity. Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX [...]
From nanowerk.com: Toxicity of nanomaterials is an emerging issue for public health and environmental safety. However, currently available toxicity screening methods are not fully compatible with nanotoxicity studies.Due to the unique physicochemical characteristics of nanomaterials, such as altered light absorption or scattering properties, the conventional cytotoxicity assays have been shown to create complications in nanotoxicity [...]
From nanotech-now.com: Millions of illnesses and more than 1,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are attributable to foodborne illness caused by known pathogens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Conventional methods to screen food to find sickness-causing microbes can take as long as 24 hours, which is often too slow to [...]
