Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission’s Oil and Gas Division, said a new study pegs the recoverable oil in the Three Forks formation, under the famed Bakken Formation, at up to 2 billion barrels of oil within North Dakota alone. In 2008, Helms …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers have isolated collection of “pure” or spin polarized positronium atoms for the first time. Spin is a fundamental and intrinsic property of an electron, and refers to the electron’s angular momentum. Spin polarized atoms are atoms that are all in the same spin state. A …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The US Navy will be displaying latest advanced naval technologies geared toward the warfighter at the Navy League Sea Air Expo. These technologies include * Electromagnetic Railgun: The electromagnetic railgun uses electricity to launch projectiles. Its range exceeds 230 miles with accuracy within five meters of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Uranium production volume in the Republic of Kazakhstan for the 1st quarter of 2010 made up 4,060 tons of Uranium that is 63% more in comparison with the same period of the last year. Such growth resulted from the increase of production at nearly all …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is fresh buzz in nanomechanics. Scientists at the University of Bonn have succeeded for the first time in making, out of DNA double stands, an interlocked molecule (rotaxane) with freely moveable components. As the researchers wrote in the latest edition of the science journal “Nature …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Technical details of the selections in pdf form This second round of ARPA-E-funded research projects focuses on …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nano-patterning: At the heart of the new tool is a tiny silicon tip. It is able to carve out features as small as 15 nanometers through heating and the application of nanonewtons of pressure. Credit: IBM This is a second article on the new IBM 3D …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In the April 30 online issue of The Lancet, Ashley Caplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and several of his colleagues note that the average person will discover he or she has about 100 genetic risks. “Even if [counseling …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Augmented Steps This “haptic” floor can mimic the look and feel of sand.Credit: Yon Visell MIT Technology ReviewAugmented reality floor tiling Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot. …
Astro Bio looks at the telescope array sizes needed to image other planets and objects on other planets in other solar systems. * a 100-pixel image of a planet twice the width of Earth some 16.3 light years away would require the elements making up a space telescope array to be more than 43 miles …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The photograph shows a hairless lab rat at the top with a 2.7 cm² patch of the new material grafted over a dermacission of the same area. By week 4 in the lower photograph, the natural rat skin has filled in the graft area, and is …