The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.9-million, 18-month program to use brain-inspired technologies to develop a system that will speed an image analyst’s job by 100 times. Called Object Recognition via Brain-Inspired Technology (ORBIT), the system will use electro-optical (EO), light detection and ranging (LIDAR), …
Until now, materials science researchers believed that an electron’s charge and spin influenced the characteristics of conventional bulk materials. Atomic orbitals, which consist of the patterns of electron density that may be formed in an atom, were previously thought to be inactive. Chakhalian’s work has focused on what happens at the interface between two different …
There is a post at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) about how if nanofactory level nanotechnology is created that there will not be nano Santa Claus creating a post-capitalist society with abundance for everyone. The CRN post goes onto discuss the Dale Carrico prescription of a guaranteed income in order to redistribute the bounty …
Allan Greenleaf, professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester, and his coauthors lay out the possibility of building a sort of invisible tunnel between two points in space. Invisible tunnel Current technology can create objects invisible only to microwave radiation, but the mathematical theory allows for the wormhole effect for electromagnetic waves of all …
This is a precursor proof of the effectiveness of nanomedicine concepts of Robert Freitas. Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds — much like the carbon structure as that of a sparkling 14 karat diamond but on a much smaller scale — are very effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects …
A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence developed by researchers at the University of Illinois has made possible the accurate detection of nanometer-scale motion of biomolecules caused by pico-newton forces. “By combining single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and an optical trap, we now have a technique that can detect subtle conformational changes of a biomolecule …
Suggestions on how to optimize performance on an IQ test Let the “experts” argue about whether you can boost IQ or not, in any absolute sense. If you slept well, exercised, then sat up straight and breathed deeply as you took the test, don’t you think you would score a few points higher on an …
Despite some success with air pollution, current levels — mainly nitrogen oxide, fine particles and ground-level ozone — are estimated to shorten average life expectancy in Western and Central European countries by almost a year and to threaten the healthy development of children. This from the report, ‘Europe’s environment — The fourth assessment’, which was …
American Superconductor in a joint venture to develop 10 MW wind generators. National Institute of Science and Technology is funding development of technologies for 10 Megawatt-Class, Direct Drive Offshore Wind Generators Powered by High Temperature Superconducting Wire digg_url= ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/10/american-superconductor-developing-10.html’ =’compact’;reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/10/american-superconductor-developing-10.html’reddit_url=advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/10/thermoelectronics-for-cars-trucks.html Direct drive wind generator systems utilizing HTS wire instead of copper wire for the generator’s …
Ontario Liberals initially promised to close Ontario’s coal plants by 2007. They since pushed the closures back several times when it became obvious alternatives were not going to be in place, eventually writing the 2014 closures into regulation in the summer of 2007 The Liberals won a strong majority with 71 of 107 districts. There …
Until recently, the Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, which is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections. By sending data using 10 different colors, or wavelengths, of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network’s capacity to 100 Gbps. Internet2 already is planning future expansion. By …