1. Colorectal cancer is especially difficult to diagnose in its early stages – usually, people are in advanced stages when the cancer is discovered, and the diagnostic process itself requires the removal of entire polyps as well as a laboratory assessment that may take weeks. Vernick’s [ doctoral student of the Department of Physical Electronics …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP’s) design team has now completed the six-month design phase of the project, finishing design work on the device, the shielding wall and the vacuum chamber. We are now into the fabrication and construction phase, which will last three months. LPP has submitted a concept paper to the new Advanced Research Projects …
Reciprocating devices are key features in macroscopic machines. We have adapted the DNA PX-JX2 device to a reciprocal format. The PX-JX2 device is a robust sequence-dependent nanomachine, whose state is established by a pair of control strands that set it to be either in the PX state or in the JX2 state. The two states …
Previously we had an article about cloud computing, distributed computing and the importance of GPGPU acceleration. HPCwire reports that Nvidia’s next-generation GPU design, the G300, may turn out to be the biggest architectural leap the graphics chip maker has ever attempted. If the early rumors are true, NVIDIA has decided move the architecture a step …
J Storrs Hall is at the DARPA workshops for physical intelligence. It turns out they are trying to advance the concepts of entropy and cybernetics. The picture is an example of cybernetics from wikipedia. I’m currently at the Proposer’s Workshop for the program, and it turns out that what they’re actually talking about is a …
My thinking is that there are three main paths on bone strengthening with different times to get them done. [Link references will be added later, check the labels for references]Plus the years for FDA approvals (but probably faster for any non-FDA military program or in places like China or North Korea) 1. Replicate the biological …
Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of the world’s first impulse radio-based high-capacity wireless transmission equipment using millimeter-band transmissions in the 70-100 gigahertz (70-100 GHz) range band, resulting in throughput exceeding 10 gigabits-per-second (10 Gbps). This technology dispenses with the oscillators and other components that have been required in conventional wireless …
Optical superlens shows 30 nanometer features that 1/12th the wavelength of light.(15 page pdf) We demonstrate a smooth and low loss silver (Ag) optical superlens capable of resolving features at 1/12th of the illumination wavelength with high fidelity. This is made possible by utilizing state-of-the-art nanoimprint technology and intermediate wetting layer of germanium (Ge) for …
New Scientist covers progress in understanding how to speed up the brain. Van den Heuvel’s team to build connectivity networks for each volunteer, and to measure the efficiency of each network. “It more or less reflects how many steps a [brain] region has to take to send information from one region to another,” he says. …
A comparison of practical and theoretical specific energy limits for various battery technology. Others predict higher practical and theoretical levels. The determination of the theoretical maximum capacity of a Lithium-air battery is complex, and there isn’t a flat statement of fact in the Handbook of Batteries , Third Edition as are many more well developed …
Two separate research developments with graphene advance applications with graphene for electronics. One is the engineering of tunable bandgaps and the other is formation of nanostructures that connect graphene layers. 1. Wang, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, have engineered a bandgap in …