Between them, Brazil, China and India account for half the world’s poorest people and an even bigger share of those who have escaped poverty. In 1981, 84% of China’s population was below the poverty line of $1.25 a day (in 2005 prices); in 2005 the share was just 16%. Brazil’s share of those in poverty …
AMD laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2010 and 2011, involving its much-hyped Fusion products as well as a slew of new processor technologies. * Fusion is the combination of a GPU and CPU on one die. The graphics processor is now referred to as an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). AMD expects to make the …
Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material’s ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss. The technique, described in the October 30, 2009, issue of Science, could be …
Are Black Hole Starships Possible? (20 page pdf) By Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland, Kansas State University (H/T Crowlspace) The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether it is possible to build artificial Black holes of the appropriate size, and to employ them in powerplants and starships. The conclusion we reach is that it …
The holy grail in spintronics is to address spin with something other than magnets and now University of Ohio researchers provided a theoretical modeling for a recent experiment that was the first to successfully control an electron’s spin using purely electrical fields. The team collaborated with a research group at the University of Cincinnati, led …
European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously. The Plasmocom technology can create plasmonic devices using existing commercial lithography techniques. Zayats notes that interest in the team’s work has …
New Scientist reports that Technical University of Delft researchers have found that carefully focus light arriving on an exposed memory chip, the charge stored in every cell corresponds to whether that cell is in a light or dark area. The chip is in effect storing a digital image. This technique can increase the pixel resolution …
A 114 page masters thesis from 2005 on the operation of a 3 Megavolt Marx Generator at the University of Missouri Columbia The UMC Marx and all its subsystems are housed in the Pulsed Power Research Laboratory on campus. This lab enables students to design, build, and test large-scale pulsed power projects. One of the …
1. Scientists have identified a genomic “signature” in circulating blood that reveals exposure to common upper respiratory viruses, like the cold or flu, even before symptoms appear. The discovery could lead to dramatic changes in the way doctors care for the millions of people who develop upper respiratory infections every year. Ginsburg says the symptoms …
Bob Maddox and one of four rocketsBob Maddox wants to strap himself to a homemade four-engine pulse jet rocket, ride it to around 25,000 feet and then jump off. [via Wired.com and the Medford Mail. Oregon live has a feature on Bob Maddox. Bob’s Contact as per Oregon Live and probably to Donate: 541-779-3800, rrocketmann …
Nutrigenomics is the study of molecular relationships between nutrition and the response of genes, with the aim of extrapolating how such subtle changes can affect human health. Nutrigenomics focuses on the effect of nutrients on the genome, proteome, and metabolome. By determining the mechanism of the effects of nutrients or the effects of a nutritional …