Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group, wrote on LinkedIn that the most valuable company in the world in 5-10 years will be in mobility : Elon Musk delivers results that many didn’t think possible. They show that electric cars can be profitable. As one of the few automakers Porsche AG …
Valleytronics, based on the valley degree of freedom rather than charge, is a promising candidate for next-generation information devices beyond complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Although many intriguing valleytronic properties have been explored based on excitonic injection or the non-local response of transverse current schemes at low temperature, demonstrations of valleytronic building blocks similar to transistors …
Using cutting-edge computational techniques, researchers from the Flatiron Institute in New York City and Cornell University have solved the first robust theoretical model of strange metals. The work reveals that strange metals are a new state of matter. Strange metals share remarkable properties with black holes, opening exciting new directions for theoretical physics. In a …
Asahi Kasei Corporation succeeded in designing a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light. The laser diode emits the world’s shortest lasing wavelength, at 271.8 nanometers (nm), under pulsed [electric] current injection at room temperature. Previous efforts in the development of ultraviolet laser diodes had only managed to achieve emissions down to 336 nm. Laser diodes …
More public mask-wearing is very important to curbing the spread of COVID-19, but is 80% of the population complying with mask-wearing good enough? Above the picture shows Mask compliance but no seatbelt. Getting to Hong Kong levels of 99% mask-wearing and other new hand and surface hygiene levels will require technology, ergonomics, policy and other …
When disaster strikes, small businesses turn to their business insurance policies for help – and those policies cover a wide range of situations, from storms and flooding to fires and worker injuries. As shops are forced to close down due to COVID-19, however, many are discovering that their insurance is of little help. Conventional business …
We will be able to take megapixel images of exoplanets by putting telescopes in zones that are 600 to 2000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. Getting to 600 times as far away from the Sun we can observe exoplanets in other solar systems when we go the exact opposite direction. We …
We have already directly imaged 322 exoplanets as of February 2020. Young planets that emit infrared light and are far from the glare of the star are the easiest to spot. NASA maintains a list of directly imaged exoplanets. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of …
Daniel Deudney is a professor of political science and international relations who wrote a book called Dark Skies where he makes the case that colonizing space will increase the risk of human extinction. Al Globus writes a rebuttal to Daniel Deudney, where Al analyzes the various risks mentioned by Deudney with or without space colonization. …
Neuralink will provide an update on their brain interface work in August and the expectation is that there will be progress on initial human trials. Elon Musk recently tweeted that the system could feed music directly into the brain. Neuralink last reported in 2019, that it had a sewing machine-like device capable of implanting thousands …
Gigafactory Berlin is being built on a 300 hectare (740 acre) plot of land. Gigafactory Shanghai is only being built 86 hectares (213 acres). Gigafactory Shanghai is being ramped to over 500,000 vehicles per year. A German source indicates that Tesla Giga Berlin will ramp to over 2 million vehicles a year. Tesla’s newly announced …