High-performance transistors based on silicon–germanium nanowires can be made using an approach compatible with existing mass-production techniques A new type of nanowire that can be fabricated using conventional manufacturing techniques has been reported by researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in collaboration with colleagues from the …
Previously nanocars were created and now there is a somewhat faster nanodragster. The Nanodragster operates at lower temperatures and rolls more easily. It was created by James Tour and his research colleagues. The synthesis and imaging by scanning tunneling microscopy of a mixed wheeled nanovehicle composed of a p-carborane small-wheeled short front axle and a …
1. WSJ – A prominent Chinese think tank on Wednesday said now is a good time for a 10% revaluation of the yuan as it warned the world’s third-largest economy is at risk of asset bubbles and overheating this year. The comments, in an essay by a researcher at the Institute of World Economic and …
Michael Anissimov notes that Ray Kurzweil had several predictions from 1999 for 2009 and those predictions are in general wrong. UPDATE: Wikipedia has a more comprehensive list of Ray Kurzweil predictions. Many of those predictions were mostly correct and Ray’s trend tracking and projections are more accurate than most projections. 1. Personal computers with high …
Babak Ziaie, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, holds a miniature birdlike shape made from the material. The wings move slowly, but the structure is not capable of flight. (Purdue University photo/Andrew Hancock) Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic “ferropaper” that might be used to make low-cost “micromotors” for …
Wired has a review of the Google Nexus smartphone * best feature is the ubiquitous voice recognition.– about every time a text field appears — in search, in maps and even in e-mail — you can press a microphone key on the virtual keyboard and just say what you want to put in the field …
Avatar has only been released for 17 days and it is already the 4th highest grossing movie worldwide (not inflation adjusted The movie has had very little dropoff in attendence Avatar will likely have a long run in the theaters and must make about 80% of the box office it has already made in 17 …
China’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in approved August, 2009 to two strains of (genetically modified) GM rice and one of GM maize for small-scale field trials — the first time that China has granted safety certificates to staple food crops. A document published on the website of the MoA’s Biosafety Management Office in October said …
On shear flow stabilization concepts for the dense z – pinch by Winterberg (17 page pdf) Different ways to achieve the stabilization of a linear z-pinch by a superimposed shear flow are analyzed. They are: 1) Axial shear flow proposed by Arber and Howell with the pinch discharge in its center, and experimentally tested by …
Ultradense Deuterium (21 page pdf) by Winterberg An attempt is made to explain the recently reported occurrence of ultradense deuterium as an isothermal transition of Rydberg matter into a high density phase by quantum mechanical exchange forces. It is conjectured that the transition is made possible by the formation of vortices in a Cooper pair …
For the second time in just over a year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper temporarily shut down Parliament on Wednesday The anticipation is that Harper will call an election shortly after parliament returns in March. While recent polls have not put the Conservatives decisively ahead, they have shown that the Liberals, the main opposition party, are …