1. The Russian uranium mining company Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ) plans to buy uranium assets in Namibia In 2008, Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ), Russia’s leading uranium producer, planned to increase production in Russia and Kazakhstan by 12% to 4,300 metric tons (for 2009) ARMZ manages all of Russia’s uranium mining assets and also participates in uranium production in the …
Dwave Systems has a new page which contains links to scientific papers and presentations describing the adiabatic quantum comptuer systems they are building. Dwave currently is testing a 128 qubit quantum computer processor. Overview and history of Dwave Dwave Processor architecture 38 page pdf Status* Have run optimization problems on C1 (8 qubit, 1500 JJs) …
In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, however, MIT researchers present a new algorithm that could exponential speed solutions of systems of linear equations — whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modeling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications. Researchers at …
Fujitsu 10 Petaflops by early 2011 Fujitsu is building the supercomputer for Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, said Takumi Maruyama, head of Fujitsu’s processor development department, on the sidelines of the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday. The system will be based on Fujitsu’s upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor, …
7 meter proof of concept Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower. Brendan Quine, Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, wrote in Acta Astronautica (DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.02.018) “A free-standing space elevator structure: A practical alternative to the space tether”. If built from a …
The image of Zar’s carotid artery appears on this small, portable smartphone connected to the probe by a USB driver. William D. Richard, Ph.D., WUSTL (Washington University of St Louis) associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Zar, research associate in computer science and engineering, have made commercial USB ultrasound probes compatible with …
The Kepler Planet Hunting mission launches today. H/T Sander Olson. The Kepler spacecraft will stare at a patch of sky – the same 100,000 stars near the northern constellation Cygnus, all at once – for at least 3-1/2 years. The goal is to detect Earth-like planets orbiting their host stars at distances thought to be …
Scientists and engineers at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) are hoping to save around Rs.5 billion (Rs.500 crore or $104 million) by modifying the design of four fast reactors nuclear power plants. With the experience gained from prototype that is being completed, the new projects can be completed in five years as …
There is superconducting in super hard boron doped diamond up to 45K according to a computational model. T A Study calculates that boron-doped diamond (BC5) should be superconducting on up to temperatures of 45 K, which, if borne out in experiments, would make this class of material with the highest with the highest transition temperature …
T Boone Pickens has made various predictions about oil on MCNBC “Eighty-five million barrels of oil a day is all the world can produce, and the demand is 87 million,” he said. “It’s just that simple. It doesn’t have anything to do with the value of the dollar.” target=blank>Pickens founded BP Capital and has a …
Bob Metcalfe (ethernet coinventor) gave a keynote speech, “Toward Terabit Ethernet.” Metcalfe had told his audience not only that optical networks would soon deliver 40- and 100-gigabit-per-second Ethernet–standards bodies are now hammering out the technical specifications–but also that 1,000-gigabyte-per-second Ethernet, which Metcalfe dubbed “terabit Ethernet,” would emerge around 2015. The move from 100 gigabit ethernet …