The most recent Anderson forecast calls for a 2 percent national growth rate for the current quarter and a sub–2 percent growth rate for most of 2012. Further down the road, GDP is forecasted to exceed 3 percent in 2013 as a number of contractionary forces continue to abate. Despite the tepid numbers, the current …
Bloomberg – China may resume some nuclear reactor construction that was stopped earlier this year while continuing a halt on approvals of new projects amid a nationwide safety check following Japan’s Fukushima crisis, said Xu Yuming, vice secretary-general of the China Nuclear Energy Association. Some construction may restart by the end of the year, Xu …
A team of Northwestern University scientists has learned how to top nature by building crystalline materials from nanoparticles and DNA, the same material that defines the genetic code for all living organisms. Using nanoparticles as “atoms” and DNA as “bonds,” the scientists have learned how to create crystals with the particles arranged in the same …
According to preliminary estimates, uranium production will reach 19,900 tons in 2011. 12,284 tons of uranium was produced over 8 months in 2011 in Kazakhstan. This is an increase of 1.5% from a prior estimate of 19600 tons of uranium for 2011 for Kazakhstan. This relates to a bet that I made on kazakhstan uranium …
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say they have measured tiny subatomic particles traveling faster than light (about 1.000025 times faster or 299,799,953 m/s. instead of 299,792,458 m/s). Quantum Diaries has a live blog for the CERN EP Seminar “New results from OPERA on neutrino properties“, presented by Dario Autiero. Arxiv – …
Jim Rogers gave his opinion about the current world financial problems * Rogers noted he would own the U.S. dollar, or the Swiss Franc, or agriculture. * China is doing their best to cool things off … I expect them to continue to do it, and that is causing more slowdown around the world. * …
Nanotechnology journal – Mechanical properties of grafold: a demonstration of strengthened graphene In this paper, the mechanical properties of grafold, an architecture of folded graphene nanoribbon, are investigated via molecular dynamics simulations and intriguing features are discovered. In contrast to graphene, grafold is found to develop large deformations upon both tensile and compressive loading along …
MIT has built the first prototypes from the Institute’s “1K House” project. It is an effort to see if low-cost homes for the poor can be constructed for $1,000, total. The prototype, called Pinwheel House, was designed by Ying chee Chui MArch ’11, a graduate of MIT’s Department of Architecture, and has been constructed in …
Spontaneous ordering of DNA fragments in a special matrix holds the key to creating non-toxic gene therapy delivery vectors, according to a study recently published in the European Physical Journal E. Scientists from the CNRS Paul Pascal Research Centre, an institute of the University of Bordeaux, France, and colleagues from the Institute of Physics at …
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Nanowire array production from a macroscopic rod by iterative thermal size reduction. Step 1: A macroscopic cylindrical rod (diameter 10 mm, length 200 mm) is fabricated from the material that is to become nanowires upon axial alongation. An thermomechanically suitable polymer sheet (PES, PEI, PSU) is tightly rolled around the rod in a clean room …