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Venture funding of nanotechnology start-ups in life sciences and healthcare increased as overall funding declined in 2009
The heyday for nanotechnology venture capital (VC) likely saw its peak in 2008, when overall investment reached $1.4 billion. Last year, the sector raised only $792 million, signifying a 42% decline from 2008.
Thermogeneratoren die auf Nanomaterialien beruhen
Die Wissenschaftler des Nano-Netzwerks CeNIDE der Uni Duisburg-Essen verfuegen ueber einen entscheidenden Vorteil: eine Technologie, mit der sich Nanomaterialien in grossem Massstab herstellen lassen. Solche Anlagen sind weltweit noch sehr selten - allerdings bilden sie die Voraussetzung dafuer, dass Thermogeneratoren, die auf Nanomaterialien basieren, ueberhaupt zur Serienreife gebracht werden koennen.
New $8.2M Project to Develop Technology and Processes for Scaling Up High-Quality Nanocomposite Production
Pixelligent Technologies, LLC, and Brewer Science, Inc., announced today that they have been awarded an $8.2 million project through the prestigious National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Technology Innovation Program (TIP).
The focus of Nanofair 2010 will be on various aspects of nanomaterials
Nanofair 2010 will take place at the International Conference Center in Dresden from July 6th and 7th, 2010.
Despite Google Taking on Censorship, Sony Ericsson Has No Qualms About a Chinese Android Launch [Phones]
Google may've delayed the Chinese launch of Android phones from Motorola and Samsung, but Sony Ericsson sees no problem with wading into the censorship row between the big G and big C. They're launching their Android phone there in spring!
The X10 will be available worldwide around March/April time, for anyone who still hasn't realized that most manufacturers make better handsets than Sony Ericsson does. [Reuters]
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YouTube Opening Online Movie Rental Service Tomorrow For Fans Of Little Choice [YouTube]
2010 looks like the year YouTube will leap back into headlines for non-Susan Boyle-related reasons. Thank god for that. After yesterday's live cricket streaming deal was mentioned, their move into online movie rentals should make indie movie lovers happy.
Taking on Netflix, Apple TV, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, YouTube's new rental service will launch on the 22nd of January—as in, 22nd of January TOMORROW.
If you suddenly have grandiose plans of streaming the entire back catalog of John Hughes films, think again. There'll be just five movies available at launch, titles which launched at the last two Sundance Film Festivals—The Cove, Bass Ackwards, One Too Many Mornings, Homewrecker and Children of Invention. Anyone? No, me neither.
Prices will be $3.99 for four of those films (the fifth price is unknown), and only those living in the US will be able to live-stream them. Over a 48-hour time slot.
This is all well and good, but if that dirty little rumor concerning iTunes.com being turned into a streaming service actually comes good, consider YouTube's indie frolicking as being as good as dead. [BBC News]
JPL Scientist Receives American Meteorological Society Honor
JPL senior research scientist Tim Liu has received the 2010 Verner E. Suomi Award from the American Meteorological Society, the nation's leading professional society for scientists in atmospheric and related sciences. Liu is being recognized for his "research in space-borne measurements of air-sea interactions and the water cycle, and for inspiring progress through interdisciplinary science team leadership." The Suomi Award is given to individuals in recognition of highly significant technological achievement in the atmospheric or related oceanic and hydrologic sciences. The award is being presented today at the American Meteorological Society's 90th Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
Liu, a JPL research scientist since 1979, developed the first credible method of using satellite data to estimate evaporation and latent heat flux in the 1980s, and was one of the first scientists to use a combination of satellite sensors to study the global relationship between surface thermal forcing and ocean temperature response. He has served in scientific leadership positions on a number of NASA missions, including QuikScat, the NASA Scatterometer, Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1, the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission, Aqua and Aquarius. He has served on NASA's Earth Science and Application Division Advisory Subcommittee and various NASA science working groups. He has also served on numerous science working groups and advisory panels of the World Climate Research Program, and on the editorial boards of scientific journals.
Among Liu's other honors are a NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and numerous NASA group achievement awards and certificates of recognition. He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society. A native of Hong Kong, Liu earned his bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude) at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and completed his master's degree and doctorate at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he also began his career as a research associate.
Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership of more than 13,000 professionals, professors, students and weather enthusiasts. The society publishes 11 atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic journals, sponsors multiple conferences annually, and directs numerous education and outreach programs and services. More information is online at http://www.ametsoc.org.
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Democrat Congressional Comm. attacks Cato Institute as "right-wing extremists"
Does this look like the Face of "Rightwing Extremism?"
From Eric Dondero:
How ironic. Many on the Right side of the Libertarian movement, including myself, have long considered the guys at Cato to lean slightly to the Left. They're stridently Anti-War, no different from say Justin Raimondo, Eric Garris, and AntiWar.com. They're unabashedly Pro-Gay Marriage. They worked with the Clinton administration and offered praise for Bill Clinton's economic moderate agenda in the 1990s.
Dave Boaz, Cato VP (photo), even co-wrote a book in the 1990s, attempting to re-paint libertarianism as a subset of American liberalism, "Market Liberalism."
Now the Democrat National Congressional Committee (DNCC) is hitting a Republican congressional candidate in upstate New York for his ties to the "extremist rightwing" organization.
From Ben Smith at Politico:
in a press release attacking a Republican running for Congress in upstate New York, the DCCC lashed out at his ties to the Cato Institute, the libertarian Washington think tank.
"While making today’s announcement that he will once again run for Congress in New York’s 24th District, [Richard] Hanna also launched a new campaign website where he shamelessly touts his ties to the Cato Institute, a right-wing extremist group that has long been a vocal advocate for extremist, unfair trade policies that would allow companies to ship American jobs overseas," said the press release.
The release goes on to hammer candidate Hanna as a card-carrying member of Cato:
"He is a sustaining member of the CATO Institute... The CATO Institute is a right wing extremist group..."
Public Invited To Pick Pixels on Mars
Since arriving at Mars in 2006, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has recorded nearly 13,000 observations of the Red Planet's terrain. Each image covers dozens of square miles and reveals details as small as a desk. Now, anyone can nominate sites for pictures.
"The HiRISE team is pleased to give the public this opportunity to propose imaging targets and share the excitement of seeing your favorite spot on Mars at people-scale resolution," said Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the camera and a researcher at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
The idea to take suggestions from the public follows through on the original concept of the HiRISE instrument, when its planners nicknamed it "the people's camera." The team anticipates that more people will become interested in exploring the Red Planet, while their suggestions for imaging targets will increase the camera's already bountiful science return. Despite the thousands of pictures already taken, less than 1 percent of the Martian surface has been imaged.
Students, researchers and others can view Mars maps using a new online tool to see where images have been taken, check which targets have already been suggested and make new suggestions. "The process is fairly simple," said Guy McArthur, systems programmer on the HiRISE team at the University of Arizona. "With the tool, you can place your rectangle on Mars where you'd like."
McArthur developed the online tool, called "HiWish," with Ross Beyer, principal investigator and research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
In addition to identifying the location on a map, anyone nominating a target will be asked to give the observation a title, explain the potential scientific benefit of photographing the site and put the suggestion into one of the camera team's 18 science themes. The themes include categories such as impact processes, seasonal processes and volcanic processes.
The HiRISE science team will evaluate suggestions and put high-priority ones into a queue. Thousands of pending targets from scientists and the public will be imaged when the orbiter's track and other conditions are right.
HiRISE is one of six instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Launched in August 2005, the orbiter reached Mars the following year to begin a two-year primary science mission. The spacecraft has found that Mars has had diverse wet environments at many locations for differing durations in the planet's history, and Martian climate-change cycles persist into the present era. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in an extended science phase and will continue to take several thousand images a year. The mission has returned more data about Mars than all other spacecraft combined.
"This opportunity opens up a new path to students and others to participate in ongoing exploration of Mars, said the mission's project scientist, Rich Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory operates the HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft.
To make camera suggestions, visit http://uahirise.org/suggest/ .
More information about the MRO mission is at http://www.nasa.gov/mro .
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Study Links Spring Ozone Over North America With Emissions Abroad
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration WP-3D Orion aircraft were also used to collect ozone data for this study.
Springtime ozone levels above western North America are rising, primarily due to air flowing eastward from the Pacific Ocean, a trend that is most significant when the air originates in Asia. These increases in ozone could make it more difficult for the United States to meet Clean Air Act standards for ozone pollution at ground level, according to a new international study published online Jan. 20 in the journal Nature.
The study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analyzed large quantities of ozone data captured since 1984. Among the data sources for the study were profiles of ozone in Earth's troposphere (lowermost atmosphere) measured since 1999 by the differential absorption lidar (laser detection and ranging) system located at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, Calif. That remote, high-altitude facility enables research in atmospheric science, optical communication and astronomy. Measurements from atmospheric balloons launched from Table Mountain also contributed to the findings.
"In springtime, pollution from across the hemisphere, not nearby sources, contributes to the ozone increases above western North America," said lead author Owen R. Cooper of the NOAA-funded Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "When air is transported from a broad region of south and east Asia, the trend is largest."
The study focused on springtime ozone in a slice of the atmosphere from 3 to 8 kilometers (2 to 5 miles) above the surface of western North America, far below the protective ozone layer but above ozone-related, ground-level smog that is harmful to human health and crops. Ozone in this intermediate region constitutes the northern hemisphere background, or baseline level, of ozone in the lower atmosphere. The study was the first to pull together and then analyze the nearly 100,000 ozone observations gathered in separate studies by instruments on aircraft, balloons and other platforms.
Combustion of fossil fuels releases pollutants like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, which react in the presence of sunlight to form ozone. North American emissions contribute to global ozone levels, but the researchers did not find any evidence that these local emissions are driving the increasing trend in ozone above western North America.
Cooper and colleagues from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., and eight other research institutes, including JPL, used historical data of global atmospheric wind records and sophisticated computer modeling to match each ozone measurement with air-flow patterns for several days before it was recorded. This approach essentially let the scientists track ozone-producing emissions back to a broad region of origin.
This method is like imagining a box full of 40,000 tiny, weightless balls at the exact location of each ozone measurement, explained Cooper. Considering winds in the days prior to the measurement, the computer model estimates which winds brought the balls to that spot and where they originated.
When the dominant airflow came from south and east Asia, the scientists saw the largest increases in ozone measurements. When airflow patterns were not directly from Asia, ozone still increased but at a lower rate, indicating the possibility that emissions from other places could be contributing to the ozone increases above North America. The study used springtime ozone measurements because previous studies had shown that air transport from Asia to North America is strongest in spring, making it easier to discern possible effects of distant pollution on the North American ozone trends.
Ozone-measuring research balloons and research aircraft collected a portion of the data. Commercial flights equipped with ozone-measuring instruments also collected a large share of the data through the MOZAIC program, initiated by European scientists in 1994. The bulk of the data were collected between 1995 and 2008, but the team also included a large ozone dataset from 1984.
The analysis shows an overall significant increase in springtime ozone of 14 percent from 1995 to 2008. When they included data from 1984, the year with the lowest average ozone level, the scientists saw a similar rate of increase from that time through 2008 and an overall increase in springtime ozone of 29 percent.
"This study did not quantify how much of the ozone increase is solely due to Asia," Cooper said. "But we can say that the background ozone entering North America increased over the past 14 years and probably over the past 25 years."
The influence of ozone from Asia and other sources on ground-level air quality is a question for further study, Cooper said. Scientists will need to routinely measure ozone levels close to the surface at several locations along the West Coast to see whether similar trends are impacting ground-level air quality. More information on the study is online at: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100120_ozone.html .
More information on JPL's Table Mountain Facility is at: http://tmf-web.jpl.nasa.gov/ . For more information on JPL's Table Mountain Facility Atmospheric Lidar Group, see: http://tmf-lidar.jpl.nasa.gov/ .
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Mission to Jupiter
With its suite of science instruments, Juno will investigate the existence of a solid planetary core, map Jupiter's intense magnetic field, measure the amount of water and ammonia in the deep atmosphere, and observe the planet's auroras.
Juno’s principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.
This artist's concept shows the Juno spacecraft in orbit around the planet Jupiter.
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NASA Schedules News Conference about Next Space Shuttle Launch
NASA managers will hold a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The briefing will begin after the Flight Readiness Review, a meeting to assess preparations for shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission to the International Space Station.
Live status updates, including the start time for the news conference, will be provided via the NASA News Twitter feed during the meeting. To access the feed, go to the NASA.gov homepage or visit:
The review is expected to include the selection of an official launch date. Endeavour is targeted to launch at 4:39 a.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 7.
The briefing participants are:
- Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations
- Mike Suffredini, manager, Space Station Program
- Mike Moses, space shuttle launch integration manager, Space Shuttle Program
- Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch director
NASA Television and the agency's Web site will carry the live briefing. Reporters may ask questions from participating NASA locations and should contact their preferred NASA center to confirm participation.
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For STS-130 crew and mission information, visit:
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Maximum Air Thurst From a Simple Turbine/Blower
What could be the approximate maximum air thrust in lbs one could expect from a simple turbine/blower powered by a 1hp petrol engine with a max speed of 7000 rpm.
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Google’s HTML5 YouTube Videos Don’t Need Flash [YouTube]
HTML5 is a major part of Google's plans for the future, including Chrome OS—check out this interview for more on that—and one step towards that is getting YouTube to work without a Flash plugin, which they've now achieved. It's not perfect yet (no ads or annotations) and it only works on certain supported browsers (Chrome and Safari, at the moment) but it's still a taste of what's to come. You can hit up TestTube to check it out. [YouTube]
