15 mn presentation from “A Matter Of Some Gravity” by Gary Hudson during the 2014 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Symposium (NIAC 2014). This is the third part of Gary Hudson’s presentation, detailing current research about Mach Effect conducted by physicist James Woodward at Cal State Fullerton, and funded by the Exotic Propulsion Initiative of …
One team used one laser to confine the BEC to a narrow tube, and another to accelerate some of it faster than the speed of sound. This fast flow created two horizons: an “outer” one at the point where the flow became supersonic, and an “inner” one further on where the flow slowed down again. …
Michael Pettis discusses the burden on the United States for having the US dollar as the World’s reserve currency. There seems to be a slow change in the way the world thinks about reserve currencies. For a long time it was widely accepted that reserve currency status granted the provider of the currency substantial economic …
The IEA projects that under business as usual close to 1 billion people will still be without access to electricity and 2.6 billion people will still lack access to clean cooking facilities in 2030. The IEA estimates that total investment of nearly $1 trillion ($979 billion) would be required to achieve universal energy access by …
Cambridge is to lead the technology roadmap towards a US$1.5 billion European program to conduct research on graphene – a versatile substance, stronger than diamond, which researchers say could trigger a “smart and sustainable carbon revolution.” The ambitious and large-scale initiative aims to achieve new breakthroughs both in terms of technological innovation using graphene, and …
The wireless house of the future might use a system being developed at Purdue University that could eliminate wires for communications in homes, businesses and cars. The researchers designed and built a miniature device capable of converting ultra fast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency signals using innovative “microring resonators.” Such an advance could enable …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) invites you to the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in the Washington DC area from March 1-3. The summit brings together all the nation’s key players in energy innovation: scientific researchers, VC investors, technology entrepreneurs, large corporations, and government officials The Program of …
The Power of a Diagnostic Lab…on a Piece of Paper Developed by George Whitesides of Harvard in a 3 page powerpoint * The George Whitesides’ laboratory has developed diagnostic devices made from patterned paper * Patterns direct fluid into segregated areas where different analytes are detected simultaneously * Paper printed with polymer channels forms a …
OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA rose to a two-week high in Sao Paulo trading after the oil company controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista said a well may hold as many as 900 million barrels of recoverable oil. The OGX oil is in shallow offshore oil on the continental shelf off of Brazil. The …
Courtesy / Sheng Shen A diagram of the setup, including a cantilever from an atomic force microscope, used to measure the heat transfer between objects separated by nanoscale distances A well-established physical law, Planck’s law, describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down …
A team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has figured out a possible way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications in ultrafast electron microscopy used in a large array of scientific, medical and technological fields. The “lenses” in …