Carnival of Nuclear Energy 142

1. ANS Nuclear Cafe – Nuclear Artifacts The latest crowd sourced blog post at ANS Nuclear Cafe brings readers a series of very special historical objects, papers, and other pieces of the past of nuclear energy — as depicted in personal descriptions and stories told by their owners… 2. NEI submissions: NEI’s Richard Myers on …

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Carnival of Space 287

1. Meridiani Journal – Astronomers redefine the habitable zone for exoplanets. Astronomers, from Penn State and also collaborators with the Planetary Habitability Laboratory, have concluded that, overall, the habitable zones are a bit farther out from their stars than previously thought. “This has implications for finding other planets with life on them,” according to Ravi …

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Joe Eck Reports 35 Celsius Superconductor after substituting Silicon

Superconductors.ORG (Joe Eck) reports the 30 Celsius superconductor discovered in December 2012 has been successfully reformulated to advance high Tc to above 35 Celsius (95F, 308K). This was accomplished with a simple substitution of tetravalent silicon into the magnesium atomic sites. The chemical formula thus becomes Tl5Pb2Ba2Si2.5Cu8.5O17+. This is the third material discovered with a …

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For Social Media Active Usage Highest at Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Twitter then Five China only sites

Google plus grew in terms of active usage by 27% to 343m users to become the number 2 social platform. Interestingly for Google, YouTube (not previously tracked by us as a social platform) comes in at number 3, demonstrating the immense opportunity of linking Google’s services through the G+ social layer. This is also a …

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Improvement over TCP would give 30 times faster file transfer, 6 times less latency and 5 times faster web browsing

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of a new data transfer protocol that, by taking a software-only approach, can significantly improve the performance of file transfers, virtual desktops and other various communications applications. Through a simple software installation, the new technology will make it possible to speed up TCP applications that previously required costly …

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Towards defect-free graphene and large scale manufacturing

A new way of growing graphene without the defects that weaken it and prevent electrons from flowing freely within it could open the way to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices with applications in fields such as electronics, energy, and healthcare. A team led by Oxford University scientists has overcome a key problem of growing graphene …

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Genetically modified tobacco plants produce antibodies to treat rabies

In a new research report appearing in The FASEB Journal, scientists produced a monoclonal antibody in transgenic tobacco plants that was shown to neutralize the rabies virus. This new antibody works by preventing the virus from attaching to nerve endings around the bite site and keeps the virus from traveling to the brain. “Rabies continues …

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Towards Printable photonic devices with sub-10 nm resolution

The researchers are using nanoimprinting and have already produced 5 nanometer lines and they believe they can scale it up to commercial applications. A novel and robust route for high-throughput, high-performance nanophotonics-based direct imprint of high refractive index and low visible wavelength absorption materials is presented. Sub-10 nm TiO2 nanostructures are fabricated by low-pressure UV-imprinting …

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Enzyme Molecules as Nanomotors

Enzymes, workhorse molecules of life that underpin almost every biological process, may have a new role as “intelligent” micro- and nanomotors with applications in medicine, engineering and other fields. That’s the topic of a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, showing that single molecules of common enzymes can generate enough force to …

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