Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets, wandering through space instead of orbiting a star. There may be 100,000 times more “nomad planets” in the Milky Way than stars, according to a new study by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute of Stanford University and the …
Apple ended the last quarter of 2011 with a net income of $13.1 billion. Apple now has a valuation of about $490 billion. The company sold 37 million iPhones in the period ended Dec. 31, with customers snapping up the new 4S model that went on sale in October. Seeking Alpha – analysts expect the …
Ecat World interviewed Rossi and published the notes Rossi reported on what he considered a significant breakthrough in the area of electrical production. He said that just a few days ago Siemens AG (German engineering firm) were with him in his Bologna factory and they demonstrated a turbine that could produce electricity at 30 per …
The distribution of people of Turkic cultural background ranges from Siberia, across Central Asia, to Eastern Europe. As of 2011 the largest groups of Turkic people live throughout Central Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan, in addition to Turkey and Iran. Additionally, Turkic people are found within Crimea, East Turkistan region of western China, northern …
EETimes -Huawei has announced a quadcore chip for smartphones and tablets that is 30 to 50% faster than the NVIDIA Tegra 3 Huawei sold 20 million handsets last year and could sell 60 million thus year. The K3V2 chip will also be sold to other makers. If you liked this article, please give it a …
1. Cosmic Log at MSNBC – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory gets a great look at a partial solar eclipse from outer space, which serves as a preview for the sights we’ll see on Earth later this year. 2. Cosmic Log at MSNBC – Geologists see signs that seismic shocks as powerful as magnitude-7 quakes on …
1. Idaho Samizdat – Small modular reactor vendors seek investors and customers. First they have to prove they can build one. This report, the 2nd in a series, looks at opportunities to develop prototypes at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River site. 2. Science and Technology at Newsok has an article about Uranium Enrichment. When …
CNN Money – Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, said on Friday that his research firm is sticking with the forecast it made in September: A new recession is inevitable, despite improvement in high-profile economic indicators, such as job creation and unemployment, and a stock market rally. The Economic Cycle Research Institute, …
China Daily – China’s total electricity consumption is expected to top 5.14 trillion kilowatt-hours (kwh) this year, with the growth rate slowing from 11.7 percent in 2011 to between 8.5 and 10.5 percent, the CEC said in an annual industrial report posted on its website. According to the CEC report, China’s electricity consumption rose 11.7 …
Yomiuri Shimbun – It may be possible to travel to space in an elevator as early as 2050, a major construction company has announced. Obayashi Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, on Monday unveiled a project to build a gigantic elevator that would transport passengers to a station 36,000 kilometers above the Earth. In Obayashi’s project, a …
Sheets of single-layer carbon with a variety of bonding patterns may have properties similar to the wonder material graphene, according to new computer simulations. Super-strong, highly conducting graphene is the hottest ticket in physics, but new computer simulations suggest that materials called graphynes could be just as impressive. Graphynes are one-atom-thick sheets of carbon that …