Carnival of Space 329 is up at Dear Astronomer New Evidence For A Jet From Milky Way’s Black Hole “Nextbigfuture – provided a summary of the Mars Flyby Architecture Study Report Summary This proposal seems to be worth the risk. People go in the thousands every year to climb Mount Everest and about one in …
In his original work Josephson [Phys. Lett. 1, 251 (1962)] predicted that a phase-dependent conductance should be present in superconductor tunnel junctions. This effect attracted considerable attention in the past but is difficult to detect, mainly because it is hard to single it out from the background pair current. Here, we propose to isolate it …
A $500 “nano-camera” that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab. The three-dimensional camera, which was presented last week at Siggraph Asia in Hong Kong, could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking and …
By making the basic building blocks of batteries out of ink, Harvard materials scientist Jennifer Lewis is laying the groundwork for lithium-ion batteries and other high-performing electronics that can be produced with 3-D printers. Although the technology is still at an early stage, the ability to print batteries and other electronics could make it possible …
Hongyanhe 2 has been connected to the Chinese electricity grid, the 18th reactor in the country to do so. The unit is a CPR-1000 pressurized water reactor, on which construction was started in 2008. The first unit at the site has been operating on a commercial basis since June and now unit 2 is set …
You would think that running simulations on computers would run no greater risk than tunnel carpel from poor keyboard design but Indian nuclear scientists risk bombing, poisoning, etc which are classified as natural deaths by Indian police. Indian nuclear scientists haven’t had an easy time of it over the past decade. Not only has the …
The super controversial Rossi ECAT 1MW plant is now available on the market. It takes 200 kilowatts of input power and claims to deliver 1 Megawatt of output power. UPDATE – Looking at the dates of the FAQ. The ecat.com site was put up in November 2011. Sign up and pre-order, and secure your place …
The submillimeter wave, or terahertz, part of the electromagnetic spectrum falls between the frequencies of 0.3 and 3 terahertz, between microwaves and infrared light. Historically, device physics has prevented traditional solid state electronics (microchips) from operating at the terahertz scale. Unlocking this band’s potential may benefit military applications such as data rate communications, improved radar …
It started with a single drill hole made by a team of explorers just outside the Western edge of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, home to the richest uranium deposits in the world. The fact that the team was there at all broke with conventional wisdom. Other companies believed you had to be within the boundaries of …
China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be bigger than that of the US as early as 2022 according to a report by Standard Chartered Bank that makes forecasts on countries’ economic outlook. According to the report, China’s economy will sustain growth at over 7% annually for several years to come, before slowing down to an …
On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as one of the brightest ever seen. A trio of NASA satellites, working in concert with ground-based robotic …