Archive for 'Popsci'
This Week in the Future, August 30-Septmber 3
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by <a href="http://www.baarbarian.com/">Baarbarian</a>.
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Just agree to a lifetime of hyper-accurate real-time location tracking. The future of incarceration is just one of our favorite posts this week. This week in the future on PopSci: Technological Tracking of Free-Ra...
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Researchers Announce First Implantable Artificial Kidney Prototype
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Rebecca Boyle.
An artificial kidney powered by the circulatory system could be the first implantable device to replace kidney donation and dialysis, scientists say. Led by a University of California-San Francisco scientist, a consortium of about 10 different researc...
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New Method Swaps Pressurized Biomass For Petroleum in Plastics, Cosmetics
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Rebecca Boyle.
An accidental chemistry discovery could lead to a new method for making antifreeze, moisturizer and plastic bottles out of biomass rather than petroleum, according to researchers at Iowa State University. Professor Walter Trahanovsky was using a high-...
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NASA Solar Probe Sets Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Literally
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Rebecca Boyle.
In a mission to learn more about the sun’s inner workings, NASA is planning to launch a specially shielded spacecraft in 2018 that will plunge into the solar atmosphere. The car-sized Solar Probe Plus will explore an area just 4 million miles from t...
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MIT’s Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells
Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by Clay Dillow.
Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. As such, researchers are constantly trying to mimic the tricks that millio...

















