Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have designed a method to evaluate different conductors for use in metamaterial structures, which are engineered to exhibit properties not possible in natural materials. Cloaking devices that hide planes from RADAR, microscopes that can see inside a single cell, and miniature antennae that measure only a …
Reuters – China will manage its $3.2 trillion of foreign currency reserves more creatively to ensure “effective” results, its central bank said on Monday, as it vowed to work harder to free the country’s tightly controlled financial markets. In a wide-ranging statement highlighting its goals for 2012, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) promised to …
One of the peak energy writers at the Oil Drum Ugo Bardi has written up a 13 page paper criticizing the extraction of uranium and other minerals from seawater. There are flaws in the paper, which will be discussed but there is some useful information for calculations. Ugo Bardi first calculation is for “evaporating the …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Richard Palmer, Peter Sloan and Sumet Sakulsermsuk of the University of Birmingham, UK, have demonstrated using electrons to break the chemical bonds holding chlorobenzene molecules to the silicon surface up to 10 nanometres from the tip. They placing an STM (scanning tunneling microscope) stylus just above …
Light rather than electrical current: The inner or outer surfaces of glass micropipettes can be coated with nanoparticles of a narrow-band-gap semiconductor. When visible or near-infrared light is used for excitation, these micropipettes (labeled PE Stim in the image) can activate nearby neurons (labeled *) in brain tissue without the damage associated with electrical stimulation. …