Silicon on silk: This clear silk film, about one centimeter squared, has six silicon transistors on its surface. These flexible devices can be implanted in mice like the one in this image without causing any harm, and the silk degrades over time. The orange liquid on the hair is a disinfectant used during the surgery. …
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita explains in Foreign Policy “Why Copenhagen will be a bust, and other prophecies from the foreign-policy world’s leading predictioneer.” Despite the hoopla, the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen is destined to fail. Here’s what will happen instead: Over the next several decades, world leaders will embrace tougher emissions standards than …
The San Francisco Bay Bridge was re-opened at 9AM Monday, Nov 2, 2009 An anti-vibration system has been put in place to limit stresses and additional supports installed to prevent any rods – in case they snap off again – from falling on traffic. Initial daily inspections will be conducted of the repair system. The …
The UK Register discusses the EMDrive and the tone of the article is one of disbelief. (H/T Midas Oracle) Flight International reports that a deputy director at the British National Space Centre – the nearest thing the UK has to a government space agency – envisages a “workshop” on the Emdrive next year. The British …
1. Astroengine has a picture and video of the launch of Ares I-X. 2 The Universe Today had seven pictures of the Ares i-X launch 3. Collect Space reports NASA’s Ares I-X to fly on historic hardware with commemorative payload 4. Centauri Dreams takes a look in two posts at the National Research Council report …
Schematic representation of the bottom-up assembly concept to develop high-energy nanocomposite materials for next-generation magnets. Courtesy of George Hadjipanayis, of the UD Department of Physics and Astronomy. The University of Delaware has won a $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) to lead a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research project …
The Emdrive Programme – Implications for the Future of the Aerospace Industry – R Shawyer, Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd was presented in the Space Technologies track of the CEAS 2009 European Air & Space Conference. UPDATE: A link to the 14 page word document on the 2009 EMDrive researchEND UPDATE Wired has details on the …
China’s fastest super computer “Tianhe”, meaning Milky Way, is seen in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 29, 2009. The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) unveiled Thursday China’s fastest supercomputer, which could rival the world’s most powerful computing devices. The supercomputer is theoretically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per …
The Wall Street Journal describes how Europe made better choices than the USA in regards to H1N1 vaccines * Europe choose to use adjuvants An adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine being used in Europe contains 3.75 micrograms of vaccine stock. The same vaccine in the U.S., without the adjuvant, requires 15 micrograms of vaccine for equal potency. …
Cross-sectional diagram of the planned 32-tesla superconducting magnet. The magnet will consist of three YBCO coils (yellow), three niobium-tin coils (red) and two niobium-titanium coils (blue). A magnet, funded by a National Science Foundation grant of $2 million and a matching award from The Florida State University of $1 million, is projected to generate a …
A report “The economic value generated by current and future allocations of unlicensed spectrum” indicates that WhiteFi (white space spectrum wireless communication) could be worth $15 billion per year The first White Spaces Network has been used to bring broadband internet to Claudville, Virginia Some of the key report findings are:• By 2014 sales of …