UPDATE: The Center right coalation of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) have won (Yellow and Black being the colors of those parties) and the nuclear reactors are saved. The FDP garnered around 14.6% of Sunday’s vote, its best showing yet, paving the way for a coalition with the CDU, which led …
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took these images of a fresh, 6-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) crater on Mars on Oct. 18, 2008, (left) and on Jan. 14, 2009. Each image is 35 meters (115 feet) across. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding …
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took these images of a fresh, 6-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) crater on Mars on Oct. 18, 2008, (left) and on Jan. 14, 2009. Each image is 35 meters (115 feet) across. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding …
This site has covered the EMdrive before. EMDrive presentation at Space 08 conference, Barbican, London View more presentations from A. Rocketeer. The EmDrive is highly controversial research in propulsion which would be reactionless and uses superconducting cavities. Rocketeer comments: Here’s my take on it. It “works” after a fashion (actually generates thrust), but not in …
This site has covered the EMdrive before. EMDrive presentation at Space 08 conference, Barbican, London View more presentations from A. Rocketeer. The EmDrive is highly controversial research in propulsion which would be reactionless and uses superconducting cavities. Rocketeer comments: Here’s my take on it. It “works” after a fashion (actually generates thrust), but not in …
New Scientist reports of a new solution to increasing the numbers of entangled qubits for quantum computers. It will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing. Raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out …
New Scientist reports of a new solution to increasing the numbers of entangled qubits for quantum computers. It will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing. Raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out …
Here is the link to the 3banana page where a comment can be added in support of the antiaging project SENS. Winning the contest via the most comments will provide and more valudable publicity. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog …
1. University of North Carolina engineers have produced a ‘How-To’ Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles. researchers from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel. …
The Economist magazine has a special feature on how mobile money could benefit the lives of the world’s poor as much as mobile phones already have. Mobile phones have become tools of economic empowerment for the world’s poorest people. These phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow postal services, allowing information …
Will machines ever be as smart as humans? Intel CTO Justin Rattner thinks that someday, they might. He is mostly looking at cognitive enhancement and advanced robotics. Machine intelligence is constantly increasing due to laws of accelerating returns, “of which Moore’s Law is perhaps the best example.” “There will be a surprising amount of machines …