Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Register UK – DARPA would like to see portable nuclear reactor proposals able to carry a 5 to 10 megawatt electrical load in addition to producing 15,000 gallons of JP-8 or road fuel daily – enough to fill up a Chinook helicopter around a dozen times. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software China’s rapid urbanization will continue for 15 to 20 years and China will become an urban society in five to six years, with the urbanization rate reaching or exceeding 50 percent. Li Shouxin, director of the Development Planning Department under the National Development and Reform Commission, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The articles that are cited here show in a more detailed way how China compares to the US and developed countries and how fast people in China are catching up. Normally this is indicated with statistics like per capita GDP. Here we look at numbers of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Kratos successfully launched a hypersonic propulsion research payload. A regular rocket carried the hypersonic equipment on successful Mach 7 flight Daily Telegraph had coverage The launch was conducted by Kratos Rocket Support Services under contract to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division Detachment at …
Ads Support: Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Scientists at Oxford University have announced the first long-term trial of a new bionic eye implant. The technology consists of electrodes that replace the retina at the back of the eye and can treat the degenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP). It is thought 200,000 people worldwide …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software USF researchers has now found a way to create a well-defined, extended defect several atoms across, containing octagonal and pentagonal carbon rings embedded in a perfect graphene sheet. This defect acts as a quasi-one-dimensional metallic wire that easily conducts electric current. Such defects could be used as …
Supporting Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. IBM Research has demonstrated an optical link using a graphene photodetector fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The 10 Gbit per second receiver uses a novel interdigitated source and drain on a field-effect transistor (FET) with graphene as the channel. The vertical-incidence metal-graphene-metal photodetector achieved …
Supporting Ads: Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Princeton researchers have developed a new way to manufacture electronic devices made of plastic, employing a process that allows the materials to be formed into useful shapes while maintaining their ability to conduct electricity. In the plastic transistor pictured here, the plastic is molded into interdigitated electrodes …
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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT neuroscience Research – Moral judgments can be altered … by magnets MIT neuroscientists have now shown they can influence those judgments by interfering with activity in a specific brain region — a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality. In both experiments, the researchers …