A recent design for a nuclear reactor known as a traveling wave reactor looks similar to some conventional nuclear designs, but the way it operates is very different. Credit: Terrapower Technology Review – Terrapower, a startup funded in part by Nathan Myhrvold and Bill Gates, is moving closer to building a new type of nuclear …
The Carnival of Space 183 is up at Parallel Spirals Ian O’Neill at Discovery online has an article about a renegade star Nextbigfuture supplied: Spacex proposal for an integrated launch abort using the Dragon capsule. Kepler space telescopes announcement of 1202 possible new exoplanets Analysis that suggests that the universe is flat and at least …
Over the most recently reported two months, the CPI-adjusted (inflation adjusted) real exchange rate of the yuan has been appreciating relative to the dollar at about a 13 percent annual rate. That would be enough to eliminate the estimated 20 to 40 percent undervaluation of the yuan in less than three. Analysis from Edwin G. …
Eoplex Technologies has unique 3D Printing manufacturing capabilities. IEEE Spectrum – A California startup, Eoplex has come up with a combination of secret sauces and manufacturing techniques that lets it print sub-micron size voxels of stuff to mass produce 3D objects. After some simple, but secret, processing this stuff turns into metal, ceramics, and empty …
CDRInfo – Japanese researchers have developed a new HDD (hard disk drive) technology that could boost the capacity of hard disk drives to 24TB (Terabytes). The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan’s public management organization that promotes research and development on energy and environmental technologies, National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology, …
A Nano-rotor in its honeycomb-cage Scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have managed to direct the self-assembly of rod-shaped molecules into rotors only few nanometers in size. The tiny systems serve the study of forces that act on molecules on surfaces and in cage-like structures. PNAS – Rotational and constitutional dynamics of caged supramolecules …
Fractal Antenna retrofitted a conventional ΒΌ wave Marconi monopole antenna with a slip on fractal metamaterial collar/sleeve to increase the gain by 3 dB and TRIPLE the bandwidth. (video embedded below) This is their attempt to illustrate and promote their patented/proprietary fractal metamaterial/ resonator/ antenna technology * The gain of the antenna also undergoes improvement, …
This is a review of whole brain emulation and mind uploading. This site has looked at brain emulation before The human brain has about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. The brain emulation roadmap is a key reference. It discusses how much more compute power might be needed to emulate a human brain if …
Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will take the first step by announcing a plan to free up 115 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum. In June, President Obama set a goal of freeing up 500 MHz of federal and commercial spectrum over the next 10 years. Much of this newly available …
MSU researchers Keith Cooksey, Brent Peyton and Rob Gardner (from left) discovered that baking soda, added at a specific time in the growth cycle of algae, dramatically increases the production of oil. (MSU photo by Kelly Gorham). Montana State University researchers have discovered that baking soda can dramatically increase algae’s production of the key oil …
Fox news, CNN and NBC are all projecting that the Republicans will win a majority in the House of representatives. Fox news is projecting a 60 seat gain for the Republicans. It is likely that the Democrats will keep the majority in the Senate. However, many of the Democrats ran against Obama to retain their …