Gasoline prices are below $2.51 per gallon across the USA except in California. California has a refinery strike and a special California only blend of gasoline. Drivers across the USA are paying $2.33, which is 29 cents more than the $2.04 of a month ago. California had a refinery fire at the Exxon Mobil plant …
A new process, being developed by SRI International, takes fewer steps, uses less energy, and produces titanium powder, rather than ingots. The powder can be pressed and fused into something that’s very close to the shape of the final product, which reduces the amount of machining required. SRI’s process uses plasma arcs to facilitate reactions …
LPP Fusion published their scheduled plans for 2015 LPP Fusion Plans for 2015: As in previous years we emphasize that our plans require adequate financing. They also depend on critical suppliers coming through on time and within specifications. However we are confident that the tungsten cathode will arrive soon, and we are planning a backup …
Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero announce a project perform a human head transplant at a keynote lecture at the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons annual conference this June. He sees the procedure as being possible as soon as 2017 and believes it should be pursued as a means of saving people with, say, multi-organ …
The United States currently has over 2200 fighter planes. Currently the USA has: AIR FORCE FIGHTERS F15C 222 Will stay in service until 2025 F15D 22 F15E Strike Eagle 219 [Being upgraded and will stay in service until 2025] F16 C/D 983 F22A 186 [Fifth generation stealth fighter] F35A Lightning II 47 [Fifth generation stealth …
5G speeds of 1Tbps have been achieved during tests at the University of Surrey Professor Rahim Tafazolli, director of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the university explained that the 5GIC has been working on new technologies to support 5G services, which have been instrumental in producing the 1Tbps results. “We have developed 10 more …
The Venus Transit has a summary of Venus and Mars conjunction Venus and Mars between the clouds -19/2/2015 Chandra and #Sciencewoman Belinda Wilkes is the first woman to be the director of a Great Observatory. There are so many women who have been crucial to the Chandra project that we have put together a series …
AMD is showing its chip roadmap and technical details. AMD Carrizo chip will be the first AMD APU to integrate the use of High Density Libraries (HDL)’s on the PC side. High Density Libraries enable the CPU to be dramatically smaller than it would’ve been otherwise, with a 30-40% reduction for specific areas. AMD claims …
The 2015 IEEE international Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is on this week The first chips based on Intel’s new 10nm process are expected in late 2016 to early 2017. The 7 nanometer chips will use III-V semiconductors. Extreme UV (EUV) lithography will not be used by Intel for the 10 nanometer chips and will not …
The Russian Armed Forces began to accept into service the first fifth-generation aircraft, the T-50 (PAK FA), announced Yury Slyusar, head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), on January 30 during an interview on the TV channel Russia-24. The PAK FA will be subjected to qualification testing directly in the service of the armed forces. …
By the end of 2015, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will receive a Grigorovich-class frigate, two new improved Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, and a handful of small Project 21631 missile corvettes. Admiral Grigorovich class frigates (also known as Project 11356M) are based on a joint Indian-Russian endeavor. Admiral Grigorovich class frigates are very modern guided missile ships …