A conservative estimate for the world consumption of aggregates (sand and gravel) exceeds 40 billion tonnes a year. This is twice the yearly amount of sediment carried by all of the rivers of the world making humankind the largest of the planet’s transforming agent with respect to aggregates. Desert sand is no good for construction …
Alexa is ranking Nextbigfuture in the top 60,000 websites worldwide and top 11,000 in the USA. Nextbigfuture has over 85 million views at Google Plus Nextbigfuture has almost 47.5 million pageviews on the main site. With the redesign and increased Yahoo traffic we are over 1.5 million pageviews per month. Thanks for the readership. Brian …
NASA Dawn has entered its approach phase toward Ceres. The spacecraft will arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched in 2007 and is scheduled to …
HSBC had a 42 page report that had their view of the world in 2050 The report identifies the Top 100 economies by size. The ranking is based on an economy’s current level of development and the factors that will determine whether it has the potential to catch up with more developed nations. These fundamentals …
Hyve 3D creates virtual reality environments without needing visors like Oculus Rift The 3D images are the result of an optical illusion created by a widescreen high-resolution projector, a specially designed 5 meter-diameter spherically concave fabric screen and a 16-inch dome mirror projecting the image onto the screen. The system is driven by a MacBook …
Spacex is expected to begin a series of review boards with the U.S. government’s chief engineer the week of Oct. 27 as it enters the “final phase” of its quest to earn the Air Force certification necessary to launch national security missions, a service spokeswoman said. Spacex has provided data from three successful launches for …
Researchers from the Broad Institute and MIT have created a new mouse model to simplify application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for genome-editing experiments in living animals. The researchers successfully used the new “Cas9 mouse” model to edit multiple genes in a variety of cell types, and to model lung adenocarcinoma, one of the most lethal …
“Cement is the most-used material on the planet,” Pellenq says, noting that its present usage is estimated to be three times that of steel. “There’s no other solution to sheltering mankind in a durable way — turning liquid into stone in 10 hours, easily, at room temperature. That’s the magic of cement.” In conventional cements, …
Real-world engines have to trade off between efficiency–how well they convert heat into work–and power, how quickly they accomplish this conversion. Generally, the more powerful an engine is (the faster it moves), the less efficient it is because it creates more friction. For this reason cars need oil! But using some quantum mechanical trickery, ICTP …
Arxiv – Reexamining classical and quantum models for the D-Wave One processor (18 pages) USC Researchers revisit the evidence for quantum annealing in the D-Wave One device (DW1) based on the study of random Ising instances. Using the probability distributions of finding the ground states of such instances, previous work found agreement with both simulated …
Within about two decades, roughly 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, particularly megacities of more than 10 million, according to a recent National Intelligence Council projection. A megacity disaster scenario was set in the “deep future,” 2030 to 2040. Constructive simulation, using computers, was used to create a fictitious environment, weapons, …