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Researchers at Empa [Switzerland] and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have succeeded in “growing” single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT) with a single predefined structure – and hence with identical electronic properties. And here is how they pulled it off: the CNTs “assembled themselves”, as it were, out of tailor-made organic precursor molecules on …
The Hamas tunnels were part of one elaborate attack scheme. According to captured Hamas documents, on Rosh Hashanah of this year (starting September 24), up to 200 Hamas gunmen were to pour out of each of the dozens upon dozens of terror tunnels, many of which we now know exit inside or very near to …
Home Depot has signed an agreement with 3D printer company MakerBot to sell its line of Replicator machines. The consumer-grade, desktop MakerBot Replicator 3D printers will initially be part of a pilot program in 12 stores located in California, Illinois and New York. MakerBot said both its printers and 3D scanning technology will be showcased …
A few thousand digital video cameras flying 15-30 miles high can be used to record all human size or larger movement across the entire country. This has already been used to track movement in US cities to catch criminals and in Iraq and Afghanistan to get rid of foreign combatants. The NSA records and logs …
Federal health officials recommended two weeks ago that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus that causes it. If broadly followed, the advice could transform AIDS prevention in the United States — from reliance on condoms, which are effective …
Federal health officials recommended two weeks ago that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus that causes it. If broadly followed, the advice could transform AIDS prevention in the United States — from reliance on condoms, which are effective …
The South China Morning Post reports there is a two-year delay in the completion of the HK$67 billion high-speed railway connecting Hong Kong with Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Zheng Tianxiang, a provincial policy adviser involved in several infrastructure projects – said the delay would “definitely affect” the pace of the Pearl River Delta’s integration. A plan …
MagLab researchers have invented a groundbreaking new way to process Bi-2212 — one that makes it far more useful for building high-powered magnets including very high-field NMR magnets, a Muon Accelerator at Fermilab or a new upgrade for the powerful Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Bi-2212 is a complex high-temperature superconducting material made of bismuth, …
Abandoned by his own guards and reviled across the Ukrainian capital but still determined to recover his shredded authority, President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled Kiev on Saturday to denounce what he called a violent coup, as his official residence, his vast, colonnaded office complex and other once impregnable centers of power fell without a fight …
Robert Zubrin advocates the Open Fuel Standards bill (HR2493) It would be more economical for consumers (40% more miles per dollar) It would have low cost conversion for cars for fast deployment (flex fuel cars) It burns cleaner with fewer particulates and less CO2. It would more fully use resources that are being produced from …