Idaho Samizdat has the latest on NuScale, Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Hyperion Power Generation and Toshiba 4S from the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting Hyperion Takes Steps to Speed to Market Within Four Years Hyperion Power Generation (HPG) uranium nitride fuel burns would begin before the end of the year. He said that Los Alamos …
PresbyLASIK is a surgical technique for presbyopic visual correction using Excimer LASER ablation. Singapore and India offer the treatment now and Canada and the USA have advanced clinical trials, which are showing promising results. PresbyLASIK treatment uses the principles of LASIK surgery to create a multifocal corneal surface aimed at reducing near vision spectacle dependence …
The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. Credit: NASA “The full understanding of the LCROSS data may take some time. The data is that rich,” said Colaprete. “Along with the water in Cabeus, there are hints of other intriguing substances. The permanently shadowed regions of the moon are …
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 …
Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have devloped an acoustic hyperlens which provides an eightfold boost in the magnification power of sound-based imaging technologies. Clever physical manipulation of the imaging sound waves enables the hyperlens to resolve details smaller than one sixth the length of the waves themselves, bringing into view much smaller objects and …
Geordie Rose, CTO of Dwave Systems answered some of my questions in the comments of his blog. 1. Is the 128 qubit system being sold as a service or product yet ? We are talking with some folks about hosting 128 qubit systems so the answer to #1 is “yes”. 2. Is that happening by …
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 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 …
Ultrahigh-density phase-change data storage without the use of heating in Nature Nanotechnology Non-volatile memories based on scanning probes offer very high data densities, but existing approaches require the probe to be heated, which increases the energy expenditure and complexity of fabrication. Here, we demonstrate the writing, reading and erasure of an ultrahigh-density array of nanoscopic …
PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt has for the first time made graphene visible on gallium arsenide. Scientists of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have now, with the aid of a special design, succeeded in making graphene visible on gallium arsenide. Previously it has only been possible on silicon oxide. Now that they are able to view with a …
Carl Zeiss, the world’s leading manufacturer of optical systems for chip fabrication, has now delivered a complete optical system for production-ready Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL), a new technology for microchip fabrication. This optical system forms a core module of the first EUVL production system from the Dutch manufacturer and long-term partner to Carl Zeiss, ASML. …