Telegraph UK – Iran claims to have successfully produced and tested nuclear fuel rods in an advance that Western experts have long stated is beyond Iran’s technological capabilities. Senior naval officers announced that a new medium-range missile capable of evading radar detection had been test-fired in the Persian Gulf, escalating tensions in one of the …
Researchers at Chalmers have demonstrated that two stacked chips can be vertically interconnected with carbon nanotube vias through the chips. This new method improves possibilities for 3D integration of circuits, one of the most promising approaches for miniaturization and performance promotion of electronics. Three dimensional integration is a hot field within electronics since it offers …
1. Enbridge Energy Partners LP will make an additional $145 million investment in North Dakota to expand crude oil capacity and add a rail car loading facility to accommodate the additional volume, the company said today. The Houston-based petroleum company, which operates oil pipelines, said that it will increase the holding capacity at the Berthold …
1. WSJ – The inspectors sent to Athens by Greece’s top creditors have recommended that the Greeks get the next payment of €8 billion from its 2010 bailout agreement. The decision was never in doubt because there wasn’t any other choice. If it buys time to fix Greece’s €350 billion debt disaster and save the …
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the world’s first Ultra High Tensile Strength Steel rated at 1.2 gigapascals (GPa). From 2013, this new, highly formable steel will be produced as steel plates for use in cold pressing structural body parts. To be deployed globally in models across the Nissan lineup, it will reduce vehicle body …
1. The 27 KW units that make up the 1 megawatt e-cat system have multiple core modules Questions on the ecat discussion forum and Rossi’s answers The 27MW e-cats are single core or do they have multiple cores? Multiple I was surprised by the weight (80kg) of the latest e-cats, did you increase the thickness …
Forbes – The Sinosphere: China’s New “Diaspora” Economy A close examination of the emerging Sinosphere–or Chinese sphere of influence–shows an economy that is globally dispersed, multinational and increasingly focused on the high-tech and service sectors. The Sinosphere’s roots lie with the Han expansion into southern China during the Tang dynasty (618-907). By the 12th century, …
Popsci – the NBA has officially banned Athletic Propulsion Labs’s Concept 1 sneaker. The Concept 1 uses a spring-loaded system to allegedly improve a player’s vertical leap by a few (but significant) inches The Concept 1, has a sort of hard elastic rubber bit that runs from the heel to the forefoot, connecting with the …
One of the two available tickets on Space Adventures’ planned 2015 flyby of the moon has been sold, astronaut Byron Lichtenberg confirmed at an MIT conference today. If you’re sitting on a small fortune and want to see the far side of the moon, act fast before the last seat on the Soyuz spacecraft is …
Newborn nerve cells may help heal the brain after a traumatic injury. In a study in mice, blocking the birth of new neurons hindered the mice’s ability to learn and remember a water maze after a brain injury, researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas report in the March 30 Journal …
Writing in the journal Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association, scientists show in a small study that stem cell therapy can reverse heart damage in patients with enlarged hearts due to heart attacks. In addition, the benefits from the stem cell injections appear to be three times better than that offered by current …