Navy to Begin Tests on Electromagnetic Railgun Prototype Launcher

The Office of Naval Research (ONR)’s Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program will take an important step forward in the coming weeks when the first industry railgun prototype launcher is tested at a facility in Dahlgren, Va., officials said Feb. 6. “This is the next step toward a future tactical system that will be placed on board …

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Smaller batteries for e-bike and micro-hybrids fuel a $30 billion market according to Lux Research

Plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles with large Li-ion batteries will sputter, while smaller batteries for e-bike and micro-hybrids fuel a $30 billion market, says Lux Research. The overall market for energy storage technologies that power electric vehicles is set to grow from $13 billion in 2011 to $30 billion in 2016, a compound annual growth …

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Global Health Risks

World Health Organization – Global Health Risks report from 2009 (70 pages) The leading global risks for mortality in the world are high blood pressure (responsible for 13% of deaths globally), tobacco use (9%), high blood glucose (6%), physical inactivity (6%), and overweight and obesity (5%). These risks are responsible for raising the risk of …

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Elusive spintronics success could lead to single chip for processing and memory

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have shown that a magnetically polarised current can be manipulated by electric fields. This important discovery opens up the prospect of simultaneously processing and storing data on electrons held in the molecular structure of computer chips – combining computer memory and …

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Hollow microneedles could Diagnose and Treat Skin Cancer and Other Diseases

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Hollow microneedles open the door to new techniques for diagnosing and treating a variety of medical conditions. A research team at North Carolina State University has created small microneedles to be used in the treatment of medical conditions by inserting nanoscale dyes called quantum dots into …

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Toshiba Launches 128 Gigabyte Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of a 128-gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry. The module is fully compliant with the latest e •MMCTM standard, and is designed for application in a wide range of digital consumer …

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Equipment for Roll to Roll Atomic Layer Deposition

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software In the wake of the breaking news of new findings in barrier coatings manufactured by atomic layer deposition (ALD), Beneq is developing the equipment that will take ALD firmly into the field of Roll-to Roll industrial production. Beneq already offers the world’s first and only research …

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One Hundred Cores on a Single Chip, the Bob Doud of Tilera Interview by Sander Olson

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Bob Doud Interview by Sander Olson In Q4 last year, multicore processor startup Tilera Inc. announced its 3rd generation processor family, with a flagship version containing 100 64-bit cores on a single chip. Following is a conversation Sander Olson of Next Big Future had with Bob …

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Quantum Computers Powered By Photon Machine Guns

New Scientist reports of a new solution to increasing the numbers of entangled qubits for quantum computers. It will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing. Raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out …

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Intel Switching to Optical Connections for Computer Components in 2010 Starting at 10 Gigabits per second and Demostrated the Larrabee Chip

MIT Technology Review reports that starting in 2010 Intel plans to sell inexpensive cables with fiber-optic-caliber speed to connect, for instance, a laptop and an external hard drive, or a phone and a desktop computer. Speeding up communication inside computers and between computers will By 2010, says Dadi Perlmutter, vice president of Intel’s mobility group, …

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MIT Finds the Molecular DNA of concrete: Structure of Most Common Building Material Decoded

An MIT team found that the calcium-silica-hydrate in cement isn’t really a crystal. It’s a hybrid that shares some characteristics with crystalline structures and some with the amorphous structure of frozen liquids, such as glass or ice. “Now that we have a validated molecular model, we can manipulate the chemical structure to design concrete for …

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