Efforts to secure a deal to tackle the euro zone debt crisis are stalled over methods to increase the firepower of the region’s bailout fund, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday. France has argued the most effective way of leveraging the firepower of the European Financial Stability Facility is to turn it into a …
The fittest sled dogs are actually able to repair themselves as the Iditarod race goes on. “You take dogs out and you run them 100 miles per day today and tomorrow and the next day, and they come back, sleep, eat, do it again without having any outward sign of it mattering,” Veternarian Mike Davis …
1. Navy Times – A F/A-18D Hornet made a “hands-free” landing on the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in July, a big step for unmanned flight. Once unmanned aircraft have mastered midair refueling — a task the Navy hasn’t attempted yet — a new set of capabilities will sit in the hangar. “Pound for pound, you’re …
Journal of the American Chemical Society – Efficient Excited Energy Transfer Reaction in Clay/Porphyrin Complex toward an Artificial Light-Harvesting System The quantitative excited energy transfer reaction between cationic porphyrins on an anionic clay surface was successfully achieved. The efficiency reached up to ca. 100% owing to the “Size-Matching Rule” as described in the text. It …
When aluminum is alloyed with the right proportions of scandium and lithium through a simple series of heat treatments, nanoparticle inclusions form in the aluminum matrix (dark background) whose cores, made of aluminum, scandium, and lithium (dark circles), vary in diameter and whose shells, made of aluminum and lithium (bright rings), vary in thickness. But …
Elon Musk at Spacex has spoken several times about making the Falcon launchers reusable. Recently Spacex indicated that they have designs worked on on paper (computer models) that would solve the issues of reusability and get launch costs down as low as $50 per pound. The Falcon Heavy could get costs down to $1000 per …
1. According to Google’s own help document the addition of gaming to the service might not be that far away. But early adopters of Google+ hoping to escape the Hand of Zynga shouldn’t despair just yet, and here’s why. Game updates will have their own separate stream. 2. Google’s new social service will throw open …
Graphene grains come in several different shapes. Hydrogen gas controls the grains’ appearance. A new approach to growing graphene greatly reduces problems that have plagued researchers in the past and clears a path to the crystalline form of graphite’s use in sophisticated electronic devices of tomorrow. Findings of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak …
Some academics have written an 8 page paper about exascale computing and the end of Moore’s law. Marc Snir et al try to make the case that * We will hit the end of Moore’s law in mid-2020 with 7 nanometer lithography chips. * spintronics may not be ready in time they call for * …
Finnish researchers have designed tiny nano-particles which can deliver a specific drug to cells of the inner ear. Once brought into position, this drug helps to repair damaged ear cells. As a result people with hearing loss have experienced a significant improvement of their condition. In the European Commission-funded project NANOEAR, scientists from several countries …
This site was briefly deleted. Turns out my problem just required using the verification system the link of I can’t find my blog on the Web, where is it?’ then used verification – “they detected unusual activity” I verified and my site got put back. A lot of weird stuff going on over there. Making …