Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), and at the University of Houston, in Texas, who have developed the nanolaser, say that it could lead to hard disks with 10 terabits of data packed into a square inch. 50 times more than current hard disks can carry up to 200 gigabits per square inch. …
Nanowerk reports on the work of Alex Zettl “Our radically different approach of directly contacting nanostructures via nanosoldering is simple and relies on cheap, well-established technologies: optical microscopy and micromanipulation. We realized that we could produce sub 100 nm solder spikes, used to contact nanostructures, by a simple technique. Much as a glass-blower can pull …
Power uprates of four Florida nuclear reactors approved to add 414 megawatts between 2011 and 2012 This equal to about 40% of the average power of an existing nuclear reactor. I am in favor of aggressive nuclear power uprates. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million …
Adriano Cavalcanti is CEO and chairman of CAN Center for Automation in Nanobiotech. Adriano and his coleagues have proposed a nanorobot platform should enable patient pervasive monitoring, and details are given in prognosis with nanorobots application for intracranial treatments. This integrated system also points towards precise diagnosis and smart drug delivery for cancer therapy. nanorobot …
This 16 page PDF Building energy optimization. The most cost effective energy efficient house would not use current solar photovoltaic power About 4.9% of the oil used in the United States is used to heat homes (mostly in the northeast). Adopting optimum cost effective energy efficiency can lower the cost of home ownership while saving …
Technology Review talks to George Church about gene sequencing and the first commercial whole-genome sequencing service he launched last week with his startup Knome, based in Cambridge, MA. He is spearheading the Personal Genome Project, a nonprofit effort to make both the DNA sequence and the health records of many individuals publicly available. The project, …
A Senate committee approved a broad bill on Wednesday night to address climate change, a major step toward passage of a measure that would for the first time slow and then reverse emissions of the gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet. I strongly support this legislation (and I would support stronger …
In a world with 100 cores on a single chip, how do you get enough data onto the chip to keep all those cores fed? Rambus is working on technology that does 32 data transfers per clock beat, so that each line can transmit 32 bits per clock cycle. That’s a ton of per-pin bandwidth, …
Ulrich Welp at Argonne National Laboratory and colleagues have discovered a simple way to synchronize the phase of these “intrinsic” Josephson junctions in high-temperature superconductors to emit milliwatts of power at frequencies up to 0.85 THz. Schematic of the terahertz-source, which was fabricated on the top of an atomically layered superconducting crystal. The applied current …
There are serveral new services, which will let customers analyze their DNA. This will tell them how likely it is that they will contract inherited diseases by creating a personalised, genetic profile. I think personalized medicine is the way to go. This is one piece of a larger puzzle. More analysis of this and other …
Nantero is promising that NRAM could appear in consumer goods in 2008 However, they have previously promised 2005 and 2007. The thought of introducing filthy carbon nanotubes into an ultra-sensitive fab has blocked the rise of so-called NRAM or Nano Random Access Memory. Thanks, however, to a refined cleansing process and relentless browbeating start-up Nantero …