Yearly Archives: 2013

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for June 28, 2013

Another interesting week in the world of science and technology. We had Chinese taikonauts beaming lessons from space to school children and an American...

Transportation and Communication Update: The Internet of Cars is a Near Thing Today

Before beginning today's posting describing the rise of wireless vehicle networks I want to remember James Martin, futurist, telecommunications guru, and prolific author (104...

Climate Change – A President Gets Serious About Carbon

When President Obama spoke to the students at Georgetown University yesterday he began with the imagery of the December 1968 flight of Apollo 8...

Energy Update: CPV stands for Concentrated Photovoltaic

A new CPV power station has just come online in Mildura, Australia. It generates 1.5 Megawatts providing enough electricity to power 500 homes. This...

Energy Update: A Battery Made of Wood

Researchers at the University of Maryland are using tin-coated wood for anodes in a sodium ion battery. The battery is cheap to make and...

Materials Science Update: New Discovery May Lead to Mile-High Buildings

When I was a young man I visited the Empire State Building in New York, seen on the right in the image below. It...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for June 21, 2013

Science and technology headlines that jumped out at me this week include the following:   China Breaks the World Record for Supercomputer Speeds; Tesla Motors to Try...

Biomedicine Update: Good News for Fruit Flies

A flower that grows in mountain climates extends the life of fruit flies by 24% say researchers at University of California Irvine. Called Rhodiola...

Space Update: Lunokhod 2 Still Holds the Rover Travel Record

Turns out that the NASA rover, Opportunity, is still Number 2 when it comes to distance traveled on non-Earth surfaces. Revised data shows Lunokhod...

Biomedicine Update: Genetic Engineering Changes How We Create Vaccines and Fight Disease

Every year I get my influenza vaccine. So does my wife. We do this because our daughter was born with heart disease and we...

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