China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier could be nuclear-powered, Chinese web media reported Thursday, quoting an internal document of the shipbuilder responsible for building the carrier. Russia-based sputnik.news.cn also reported in an article on July 28 that China is sure to show the world its domestically-built aircraft carrier ahead of schedule, with all the equipment 100 …
1. Construction of unit 2 of the c nuclear power plant in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has been completed. In a 14 July statement, AERB also said that it had issued a licence for the regular operation of unit 1, which entered commercial operation on 31 December, and a siting permit for a …
A guest post by Joseph Friedlander The New Horizons Probe is rapidly approaching the Pluto/Charon system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Details at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=181 Details at: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150622 Notice that this is a double world system, orbiting an exposed barycenter. The fainter one is Charon, the brighter more massive one Pluto. The two are tidally …
GE Adaptive Cycle Engine (ACE) is the latest in a proud legacy of game-changing propulsion innovations from GE Aviation. It was developed under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology (ADVENT) and Adaptive Engine Technology Development (AETD) programs, the GE ACE is the only engine that combines outstanding fuel burn with increased, fighter-level …
Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack, with potential search and rescue, military, recreational and commercial applications, both manned and unmanned. Four agreements signed by Martin Aircraft at the Paris Airshow : 1. An agreement with Beijing Flying Man Science and Technology Ltd involves the parties working towards the future delivery of a Martin …
McKinsey has an analysis of online talent platforms. Online talent platforms can ease a number of labor-market dysfunctions by more effectively connecting individuals with work opportunities. Such platforms include websites, like Monster.com and LinkedIn, that aggregate individual résumés with job postings from traditional employers, as well as the rapidly growing digital marketplaces of the new …
HLI (Human Longevity Inc) is building the world’s largest human genome sequencing center in the world. Along with computing advances, DNA sequencing has seen an explosion of next generation technologies that are enabling faster and better sequencing of human genomes. HLI has initially purchased two Illumina HiSeq X Ten Sequencing Systems (with the option for …
China is advancing its development and employment of UAVs. Some estimates indicate China plans to produce upwards of 41,800 land- and seabased unmanned systems, worth about $10.5 billion, between 2014 and 2023. During 2013, China began incorporating its UAVs into military exercises and conducted ISR over the East China Sea with the BZK-005 UAV. In …
In the alpine grasslands of eastern Africa, Ethiopian wolves and gelada monkey are giving peace a chance. The geladas – a type of a baboon – tolerate wolves wandering right through the middle of their herds, while the wolves ignore potential meals of baby geladas in favour of rodents, which they can catch more easily …
NVIDIA’s Pascal GPU architecture, set to debut in 2016, will accelerate deep learning applications 10X beyond the speed of its current-generation Maxwell processors. Beyond the Pascal is the Volta which will used stacked DRAM and achieve a two or three times boost. Pascal GPUs will have three key design features that will result in dramatically …
Researchers in airplanes flew into thunderclouds and detected a signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles. Although powerful storms have been known to produce positrons — the antimatter versions of electrons — the antimatter observed by Dwyer and his team cannot be explained by any known processes, they say. …