The upside of Wi-Fi is that it’s everywhere – invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle it out. With Passive Wi-Fi, we can envision a true “Internet of Things” in which household devices and wearable sensors will be able to communicate …
The Phalanx, or CIWS, is an area weapon engineered to use a high rate of fire and ammunition to blanket a given area, thus destroying or knocking threats out of the sky before they reach a ship. The Phalanx CIWS, which can fire up to 4,500 rounds per minute, has been protecting ship platforms for …
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is home to the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC), a super-cooled, magnetically shielded facility specially built to house the first commercially available quantum computing processors – devices so advanced that there are only two in use outside the Canadian lab where they were built: The first one went …
The Carnival of Space 317 is up at Urban Astronomer. Too Hot to Swallow: New Chandra results help explain why gas near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is so faint in X-rays. Nextbigfuture space submissions A ten thousand person colonization space ship design is proposed with a focus on how the community and living …
llumina’s HiSeq 2000 genetic sequencing instrument. — Provided by Illumina Illumina dropped the price of human genome sequencing to $4000 in May, 2011 The new price is for individuals who are part of a group of at least 50 people who are sequenced for research purposes using Illumina’s HiSeq machines at the company’s laboratory in …
A main source of the 44 trillion watts of heat that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive isotopes in the mantle and crust. Scientists using the KamLAND neutrino detector in Japan have measured how much heat is generated this way by capturing geoneutrinos released during radioactive decay. Nature Geoscience …
A gravity loading countermeasure skinsuit Made of an elastic material, the suit is deliberately cut too short for the wearer, and has stirrups that wrap around the feet so that it stretches when the wearer puts it on. The elasticity of the stretched material then pulls the wearer’s shoulders towards their feet just as gravity …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dr. Suzanne Gildert is the author of the wonderful Physics and Cake blog. She has a high level overview of the Investigating the Performance of an Adiabatic Quantum Optimization Processor paper (10 pages) up at the Dwave blog. How do you measure the speed of an …
This is a follow up to the Idaho National Labs achieving 19% burn of pebble fuel Pebble bed fuel could theoretically achieve 65% burn, but would require highly enriched fuel. Dr. Dave Petti [Laboratory Fellow, Director Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) Technology Development Office (TDO)] Currently our plans to do include going to those ultra …
New Nvidia Fermi-Based Tesla products deliver the performance of a CPU-based cluster at one-tenth the cost and one-twentieth the power The Tesla 20-series GPUs combine parallel computing features that have never been offered on a single device before. These include: * Support for the next generation IEEE 754-2008 double precision floating point standard * ECC …