CNN Money – Google’s science-fiction-like virtual reality glasses will start shipping next year with a price tag of $1,500 — but most buyers won’t be able to get their hands on a pair just yet. The under-development glasses, a stealth project hatched in the company’s mysterious Google X lab, are still buggy, Google co-founder Sergey …
When compounds of bromine or chlorine (represented in blue) are introduced into a block of graphite (shown in green), the atoms find their way into the structure in between every third sheet, thus increasing the spacing between those sheets and making it easier to split them apart. Image: Chih-Jen Shih/Christine Daniloff A team of MIT …
A non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light, Oxford University researchers report. In the journal Science, they describe how a strong infrared laser pulse was used to perturb the positions of some of the atoms in the material. The compound, held at a temperature just 20 degrees above absolute zero, almost instantaneously …
Tom Weir, VP at EEStor Inc told BariumTitanate blog: “Our objective is to complete component testing by September 2009. In parallel, we will be finalizing our second objective which consists of the assembly processes necessary to deliver production quality components and/or EESU’s by the end of 2009. EEStor claims to have revolutionary ultracapacitors with storage …
1. Music of the Spheres has Europa Visitor FlyingSinger brushes up his space navigation skills and prepares for his April IYA podcast with a flight from Europa to Callisto, simulated in Orbiter. 2. On February 16 we celebrated Galileo’s 445th birthday: “Yet It Moves” from A Babe in the Universe. During this International Year of …