Technology Review – Cognitive radios sense unused radio bands and can intelligently switch heavy data loads between different frequencies without any interruption. New Jersey startup has come out with the fastest cognitive radio yet. It works on the widest possible range of spectrum, and is part of a crop of improved technologies that are crucial …
Alpha Galilieo reports – University of Southampton researchers, Dr de Planque, a biochemist, and Dr Zauner, a computer scientist, will adapt brain processes to a ‘wet’ information processing scenario by setting up chemicals in a tube which behave like the transistors in a computer chip The project will run for three years and involves three …
Spaceshiptwo is being unveiled today and should soon result in thousands of trips from a spaceport to suborbital 60+ mile height and then return to the same launch point for $200,000 per trip This is laying the groundwork for global high-speed air and space travel with two hour flights anywhere in the world (where there …
1. A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar. “Our focus is not about dampening noise, but to guide sound waves around structures,” said Nicholas Fang, a professor a the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and coauthor, along with Shu Zhang and Leilei Yin, …
MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Seth Lloyd has found that a peculiar quantum-physics property called entanglement can be harnessed to make detectors–similar in principle to radar systems used to track airplanes in flight or ships at sea–that are as much as a million times more efficient than existing systems. In addition, beams of entangled light …
Carnival of Space week 56 is up at the main Lifeboat Foundation blog. Nextbigfuture contributed A reproducible cold fusion experiment might have been made and a promising regular nuclear fusion approach, plasma focus fusion, has received $10 million in funding There were several articles about the Phoenix space craft landing on Mars Phoenix spacecraft parachuting …
The source of this post is this 10 page IEEE paper, Launch to Space With an Electromagnetic Railgun byIan R. McNab, Senior Member, IEEE The cost of electricity for a launch will be negligible, as shown below. Barrel life is central to the successful economics for this system. A system might cost $1.3 billion and …
China’s currency the Yuan broke through 7.2 against the US dollar the yuan broke through 7.3 Jan 1, 2008 and past 7.4 Nov 25, 2007. Chinese yuan at 7.196 to the USD on Jan 28, 2008 The yuan finished at a new high of 7.1963 to the US dollar on the over-the-counter (OTC) market, following …