Graphene Aerogel batteries are ten times smaller with the same power

Korean researchers have successfully developed sponge-like graphene aerogel electrode material using graphene and a polymer. This is a graphene battery. The newly-developed battery is ten times as small as existing ones, but can show the same product performance. A research team headed by Park Ho-seok, professor of the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, …

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Greening deserts are very bad for the fish in the oceans

Nextbigfuture interviewed Jason McNamee, former Director and Operations Officer of the Haida Salmon Restoration project and now Scientific Advisor to the World Aquarium and Conservation for the Oceans Foundation. Jason provided a lot of information and I will provide a series of articles related to his information. He educated me about processes in the deep …

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Real Life Godfather Richer and More Powerful than Fictional Michael Corleone

This article is not about the future but that real life trumping fiction. Silvio Berlusconi – Italy’s former Prime Minister and one of the world’s most recognisable politicians – did business with the mafia for nearly two decades. That is the conclusion of the country’s Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome. The billionaire tycoon, nicknamed …

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Ukraine mobilizes troops after Russia’s ‘declaration of war’

Ukraine’s new leaders accused neighbor Russia of declaring war, as Kiev mobilized troops and called up military reservists in a rapidly escalating crisis that has raised fears of a conflict. Amid signs of Russian military intervention in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, Russian generals led their troops to three bases in the region Sunday, demanding Ukrainian forces …

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The Wealthy in Bel Air live 12 years longer than people in Watts

The City of Los Angeles has published a health indicators report Life expectancy across the City of Los Angeles varies significantly, with a nearly 12-year difference between the areas with the highest and lowest life expectancy. Residents in the Watts [Public Use Microdata Area] have a life expectancy of 72.8 years compared to 84.7 years …

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Sample Return from hypervelocity flyby’s of Moons and Asteroids

Since the Apollo era, sample return missions have been primarily limited to asteroid sampling. More comprehensive sampling could yield critical information on the formation of the solar system and the potential of life beyond Earth. Hard landings at hypervelocity (1-2 km/s) would enable sampling to several feet below the surface penetration while minimizing the Delta …

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China will double down on investing in solar power while Germany winds down government support for solar

China has raised its 2015 target for solar-electricity capacity, giving a shot in the arm to its solar companies, many of which are struggling due to industry overcapacity, slow global demand and overseas trade disputes. China’s State Council, or cabinet, in a statement dated July 4 but posted Monday said installed capacity for solar electricity …

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Nanoscale etching of 3d fractal structures with many applications including 3d fractal antennas and structures for filters

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering – Fabrication of 3D fractal structures using nanoscale anisotropic etching of single crystalline silicon When it comes to high-performance filtration, separation, sunlight collection, surface charge storage or catalysis, the effective surface area is what counts. Highly regular fractal structures seem to be the perfect candidates, but manufacturing can be quite …

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Graphene oxide have a one molecular monolayer transistor chips and a step toward molecular electronics

Graphene oxide films have been used to make a transistor composed of just one molecular monolayer functioned on a chip. The first applications for the graphene-based chip will be in testing future molecular electronics, the chip itself represents a first step towards integrated molecular circuits. “The difference between this work and “graphene transistors” in general …

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Optimally combining dynamical decoupling and quantum error correction

Danny Lidar has said that he does not believe D-Wave Adiabatic quantum computer approach is scalable without error correction. He believes that the incorporation of error correction is a necessary condition in order to ever achieve a speedup with D-Wave’s machines. He does not believe D-Wave’s machines are any different from other types of quantum …

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Despite donating over $28 billion which saved over 6 million lives, Bill Gates is the richest person in the world with $76 billion

Bill Gates is the richest person in the World again with a net worth of about $76 billion. Gates has already given more than $28 billion, but said in his fifth annual letter for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that the total amount invested is less important than precise measures of impact, like child …

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