The Department of Defense needs materials for armor windows that provide essential protection for both personnel and equipment while still having a high degree of transparency. To meet that need, scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have developed a method to fabricate nanocrystalline spinel that is 50% harder than the current spinel armor …
Uranium production in Kazakhstan amounted to 22,500 tons in 2013, which corresponds to the planned targets. Kazakhstan produced 20,900 tons of uranium in 2012. The exports on contracts in Kazakhstan (excluding Stepnogorsk Mining-Chemical Complex) amounted to 23,400 tons of uranium concentrate. Kazakhstan has maintained leadership in the global uranium mining industry, providing more than 38 …
Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will be speaking at the Second Transhuman Visions conference will be on March 1st , 2014. The first Transhuman Visions conference is coming up on February 1st and has Aubrey de Grey and other speakers. It will be held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Max More and Natasha Vita-More are …
Year to date through November 2013, 14.4 million desktops, notebooks, and tablets were sold through U.S. commercial channels, leading to a 25.4 percent increase over 2012, according to The NPD Group’s Distributor Track and Commercial Reseller Tracking Service. This stellar performance follows the 3.1 percent sales increase experienced in 2012. Chromebooks, and Android tablets collectively …
Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, the World Bank, provides his take on how China achieved success and how other developing countries should follow in Demystifying the Chinese Economy. China had per capita GDP of $4,260 in 2010. China had per capita GDP (nominal US$) of $6,091 at the end of 2012. …
Terrestrial energy is trying to develop integral molten salt nuclear fission reactors. These nuclear reactors would have about 20-200 times less volume than conventional nuclear fission reactors. The US, Europe and China are trying to develop supercritical carbon dioxide turbines that would have 100 times less volume than regular steam turbines. The Hammer’s Slammers Science …
Canada outsourced most of military to the USA starting in about 1957-1964 when defense spending went from about 5% of GDP to about 2.5% of GDP. It was the deal that the US pressured Canada into accepting in 1957-1964. Canada agreed. The US wanted to have the bulk of military spending and responsibility and wanted …
The National Security Agency received its most significant legal setback since the disclosures prompted by a former contractor, Edward Snowden, when a federal judge ruled on Monday that its bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records is likely to violate the US constitution. Judge Richard Leon declared that the mass collection of so-called metadata probably violates …
Researchers at IBM’s Binnig and Rohrer Nano Center have demonstrated a complex quantum mechanical phenomenon known as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), using a luminescent polymer (plastic) similar to the materials in light emitting displays used in many of today’s smartphones. This discovery has potential applications in developing novel optoelectronic devices including energy-efficient lasers and ultra-fast optical …
The Voyager team put the new data together with information from the other instruments onboard, they calculated the moment voyager 1 escaped the solar system occurred on or about 25 August, 2012. Sensors on Voyager had been indicating for some time that its local environment had changed. Voyager is now embedded in the gas, dust …
China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy in the second quarter of 2010. China’s economy should double Japan’s GDP late in 2013 or early in 2014 (less than 14 months). Japan’s GDP has been going between a band of 470 trillion yen and 524 trillion yen (based on current prices) from 1996 to 2013. …