Nuke your way to the stars

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The problem with most space propulsion systems is a lack of available energy. One possible solution is to use a nuclear salt water rocket. The main drawback with the nuclear salt water rocket is that it vents radioactive nuclear fission products directly into space.

author: Cramer, John G.
Usage, Innovations, Space flight, Space vehicles, Spacecraft engines, Nuclear propulsion

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Harnessing the butterfly: the steering of chaos

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Theoretically, chaos can be removed, reduced or steered by introducing periodic perturbations of a carefully chosen frequency. Theoretically, this chaos theory could be used to effect stock trading on Wall Street.

author: Cramer, John G.
Research, Chaos theory, Chaotic systems, Mechanical engineering, Perturbation (Mathematics)

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Decoding the ribosome

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The progress that scientists have made on mapping the ribosome, the biological mechanism for assembling a protein, is discussed, Possible applications of ribosome research to nanotechnology are suggested.

author: Cramer, John G.
Proteins, Protein synthesis, Ribosomes, Molecular structure

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