Metamaterial applications such as cheaper satellite communications, thinner smartphones and ultrafast optical data processing are where metamaterials are poised to make a huge impact within a year or so. Kymeta of Redmond, Washington, a spin-off from Intellectual Ventures, hopes to market a compact antenna that would be one of the first consumer-oriented products based on …
Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyer that has raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier. JDS Izumo (DDH-183) is a helicopter carrier (officially classified by Japan as a helicopter destroyer) and the lead ship in the …
The Samsung Note III should be revealed in September, 2013. The Samsung Note III should see improvements across the board as far as specs are concerned. Where the Note II has a 5.5-inch 1280 x 800-pixel display, the Note III will have a 5.7-inch 1920 x 1080 full HD display. The Note III will come …
1. At comic-con the title of the second Avengers movie was revealed as the Age of Ultron. Ultron is an evil robot that has been a primary enemy of the Avengers for decades. Age of Ultron was a ten issue series that just completed. There are too many differences between what characters and events have …
China has no overseas military bases. The United States has about 700 bases overseas with about 280,000 personnel at those bases. Russia has bases in 12 countries with about 30,000 personnel. Britain has about 8000 personnel in 6 countries. France also has bases in 5 countries with 7000 personnel. The Commonwealth of over 50 nations …
Which nine advanced nuclear reactor designs, from high-temperature gas reactors to fusion would most likely achieve any significant cost declines ? Which four factors are most important to lower cost nuclear power : 1. Safety – no need for redundant safety systems 2. Use existing supply chains and will need less new materials 3. Modular …
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Eric Weinstein proposes a Geometric Unity theory. It is presented to argue that the seemingly baroque features of the standard model of particle physics are in fact inexorable and geometrically natural when generalizations of the Yang-Mills and Dirac theories are unified with one of general relativity. Attempting to reconcile Einstein’s Field Equations with the Yang-Mills …
Macrophages are a major immune cell type which roam the tissues engulfing invaders like bacteria and fungi. But they’re not just involved in gobbling up debris. They actively determine repair – for example they are important in human muscle repair. When macrophages were removed from salamanders, it had a “devastating effect” on their ability to …
IEA Medium term forecasts North American supply to grow by 3.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) from 2012 to 2018, or nearly two-thirds of total forecast non-OPEC supply growth of 6 mb/d. World liquid production capacity is expected to grow by 8.4 mb/d – significantly faster than demand – which is projected to expand by …
Using the technique that created Dolly the sheep, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan have identified a way to produce healthy mouse clones that live a normal lifespan and can be sequentially cloned indefinitely. In an experiment that started in 2005, the team led by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama has used …