In their latest series of experiments, the Duke team demonstrated that a metamaterial construct they developed could create holograms—like the images seen on credit or bank cards—in the infrared range of light, something that had not been done before. The Duke engineers point out that while this advance was achieved in a specific wavelength of …
Nanosystems Initiative Munich – The measurement of very low concentrations of various agents plays an important role in medicine, pharmacology and food technology. So-called “nanomechanical resonators” – vibrating nanostrings – represent promising candidates for suitable detectors, because their oscillating motion is extremely sensitive to the binding of substances of interest. In recent years scientists have …
We recently reviewed a study that indicated that doubling the broadband speed for an economy increases GDP by 0.3%. Also, an increase of broadband penetration of 10% increased GDP by 1%. More important to boosting the GDP of a developing country are roads (transportation), electricity/ energy, clean water, sanitation and good agriculture. Infrastructure is examined …
Paul March looked at approaches for developing a Space Launcher Infrastructure that can provide for safe & rapid transport of up to 25 people to LEO AND provide low cost transport of bulk cargo to LEO for less than $100 per pound. (68 pages) NOTE – Selenian Boondocks – Kirk Sorenson has written why he …
Dear Astronomer has Carnival of Space 234 Vintage Space has a take on Newt Gingrich’s plan to have an American lunar base up and running by the end of his second term in 2020. Vintage Space thinks a Moon base is a horrible idea, and suggest we shouldn’t take his plans of lunar domination too …
The development of new materials with high (“colossal”) dielectric constants is prerequisite for the further miniaturization of electronic devices. The search for such materials and especially the clarification of the microscopic mechanisms that can lead to an enhancement of this material parameter are important goal. Most of the capacitive materials employed in modern electronics have …
BBC News- We tend to think of 3 concepts of the city – 1. a municipal definition – the legal city if you will 2. the urbanised area, or the physical city – the built-up portion 3. the metropolitan area, which some people refer to as the influence of the city – how far out …
Wired – Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud — a web service that spins up virtual servers whenever you want them — and this nonexistent mega-machine outraced all but 41 of the world’s real supercomputers. Cycle Computing setup a virtual supercomputer for an unnamed pharmaceutical giant that spans 30,000 processor cores, …
Research papers published by Dwave Systems in regards to their adiabatic quantum computers There are ten papers that provide a technological deep dive into each of the aspects of the Dwave Systems Dwave Processor architecture Dwave Processor operation Dwave Qubits Dwave Couplers If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator …
New Scientist – Michael Czisch and Martin Dresler at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, and their colleagues turned an array of brain-monitoring technology on lucid dreamers. “A lucid dream is simply a dream in which you realise you’re dreaming,” says Dresler. The rare ability to “wake up” while still in a …
Aviation Week – “Flying Humvees” being designed by AAI and Lockheed Martin have made it through to the second phase of DARPA’s Transformer (TX) program – but the sheer scale of the challenges in producing a fly-drive tactical vehicle is becoming clear. Transformer is not simply a roadable aircraft – it is a four-seat vehicle …