1. Astroengine has a picture and video of the launch of Ares I-X. 2 The Universe Today had seven pictures of the Ares i-X launch 3. Collect Space reports NASA’s Ares I-X to fly on historic hardware with commemorative payload 4. Centauri Dreams takes a look in two posts at the National Research Council report …
Schematic representation of the bottom-up assembly concept to develop high-energy nanocomposite materials for next-generation magnets. Courtesy of George Hadjipanayis, of the UD Department of Physics and Astronomy. The University of Delaware has won a $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) to lead a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research project …
One of the 37 projects that were funded under the ARPA-E program was Wave Disc Engines Wave Disc Engine. Michigan State will complete its prototype development of a new gas-fueled electricity generator, five times more efficient than traditional auto engines in electricity production, 20% lighter, and 30% cheaper to manufacture. This novel ultrahigh efficiency engine …
A link to the 14 page word document on the 2009 EMDrive research which was presented at the the CEAS 2009 European Air & Space Conference The Emdrive Programme – Implications for the Future of the Aerospace Industry Two other groups, one in China and one in the USA are working on EmDrive projects. We …
The Huffington Post tries to make a big deal out of baby chicks being ground up and turned into chicken nuggets As it turns out, about half of all of the baby chicks born in the United States are male. This number is estimated at 200 million male baby chicks per year. Male chicks do …
The underlying goal of the ChargeCar project is to examine the common urban commute and to determine if cars powered by managed supercapacitor-battery systems are a solution that can reduce cost of ownership for a commuter car. This is not through the development of new component technologies but by better understanding of real urban commutes …
The Emdrive Programme – Implications for the Future of the Aerospace Industry – R Shawyer, Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd was presented in the Space Technologies track of the CEAS 2009 European Air & Space Conference. UPDATE: A link to the 14 page word document on the 2009 EMDrive researchEND UPDATE Wired has details on the …
Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material’s ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss. The technique, described in the October 30, 2009, issue of Science, could be …
J Storrs Hall points out employment test for Artificial General Intelligence that was suggested by Nils Nilsson AI programs must be able to perform the jobs ordinarily performed by humans. Progress toward human-level AI could then be measured by the fraction of these jobs that can be acceptably performed by machines. The list of jobs …
The recent problems with the San Francisco Bay Bridge highlights the need to address the larger problems with the bridges in the United States Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, says he’s concerned that authorities took a “Band-Aid” approach in September [to fixing the Bay Bridge]. “It failed,” he …
China’s fastest super computer “Tianhe”, meaning Milky Way, is seen in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 29, 2009. The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) unveiled Thursday China’s fastest supercomputer, which could rival the world’s most powerful computing devices. The supercomputer is theoretically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per …