The Number has a breakdown by country of the box office for the movie Avatar Japan $42,833,478 1/6/2010 China $9,703,926 1/5/2010 Japan has had movies that grossed $170+ millionChina had 2012 with $70 million So several countries are likely to more than double the current box office. The prediction made here that Avatar will be …
Shown in the Wasp Micro UAV. The assassinationbot is believed to be an armed version of the Wasp Micro UAV Wired’s Danger Room reports that the Air Force Research Laboratory has completed developing a Micro-Air Vehicle (MAV) with innovative seeker/tracking sensor algorithms that can engage maneuvering high-value targets. Special Forces already make extensive use of …
There are people who look at the Energy Information Administration projection that is some nuclear favorable energy bill passes that the US cannot make 140 more nuclear reactors and sustain current nuclear power and achieve 240% of current nuclaer power by 2050. I think the build rate and increase of nuclear power can be far …
University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use the unique capabilities of graphene “quilts” as heat conductors in high-power electronics. Most of the current research on graphene has focused on its electronic properties and graphene’s potential …
Cosco (China’s container ship company) CEO is seriously investigating the creation of nuclear powered container ships. This site has already examined a study of the economics of nuclear power for commercial shipping. The study showed that a nuclear ship would be $40 million per year cheaper to operate when bunker oil is at $500/ton. Those …
Google is researching Quantum Computer Algorithms using Dwave Systems Quantum Computers for a binary classifier of images At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS 2009), we show the progress we have made. We demonstrate a detector that has learned to spot cars by looking at example pictures. It was trained with adiabatic quantum optimization …
There was a Medieval Warm Period (900-1100 AD), in central Greenland at any rate. But we knew that — that’s when the Vikings were naming it Greenland, after all. *the axis is degrees C. The Greenland ones are actual (yep, it’s cold there), the Vostok are delta of current temp * CO2 can migrate in …
The next generation of bomb resistant vehicles will be in Afghanistan along with the 30,000 extra troops They are equipped with everything from composite armor to “electronic keels”. The M-ATV is made by Oshkosh defense. The M-ATV has a curb weight of just under 25,000 lb, and it’s powered by a 370-hp Caterpillar C7. It …
IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for many diseases, including one of world’s leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease. The results are so quick and accurate that a small sample of a …
Researchers at the University of Southern California have demonstrated large, functional arrays of transistors made using simple methods from batches of carbon nanotubes that are relatively impure. For the first time someone has shown solution-deposited, purified semiconducting tubes for high-quality transistors,” says John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois …
The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, or PCPT, was a study designed to see whether the drug finasteride (trade name Proscar) can prevent prostate cancer in men ages 55 and older. In June 2003, the PCPT was stopped early because of a clear finding that finasteride reduced the incidence of prostate cancer. However, those trial participants …