The Winter Olympics will be in South Korea from Feb 9-25, 2018. Germany, Norway, USA and Canada are predicted to top the medal counts with about 30-35 each. Germany and Norway are expected to be the main competition for the most gold medals. Gracenotes virtual medal projections is for Canada to drop from 10 golds …
Neufund is an ecosystem of smart contracts operating on the Ethereum blockchain. Neufund is a community-owned fundraising platform. It acts as a bridge between the investment world and the blockchain space. By first quarter of 2018, companies will be able to raise equity on the Neufund platform. Startups and established companies alike can legally issue …
The German government has targeted a 40 percent reduction of GHG emissions by 2020, as compared to 1990 levels, but with less than three years to go the country remains far from achieving that goal. Berlin already admitted that the 40 percent goal likely wasn’t possible, and instead lowered its sights to a 35 percent …
What are the commitments made by 184 countries related to the Paris Agreement on the environment ? Developed countries have offered absolute economy-wide emissions targets (the United States, for instance, had pledged to reduce its emissions 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025). If fully implemented, the submitted INDCs for 2025 and 2030 are projected …
Scientists have for the first time developed a transparent sample of a popular industrial ceramic that is the second hardest material after diamond and can withstand substantially higher temperatures. The super-hard window made of cubic silicon nitride can potentially be used under extreme conditions like in engines, researchers said. Scientists have synthesised the first transparent …
The UK Ministry of Defence has officially awarded a £30m (US$38 million) contract to produce a prototype laser weapon. The aim is to see whether “directed energy” technology could benefit the armed forces, and is to culminate in a demonstration of the system in 2019. If the demonstration is successful, the first laser weapons could …
When it comes to military electronics – whether in the realm of communications, navigation, or tactical systems – timing and synchronization are critical. When deployed, even the best battery-fueled atomic clocks are less than ideal because of frequency variations under power cycling, long-term frequency drift, and temperature sensitivity. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) …
The search for thermoelectrics with higher figures of merit (ZT) will never stop due to the demand of heat harvesting. Single layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), namely MX2 (where M is a transition metal and X is a chalcogen) that have electronic band gaps are among the new materials that have been the focus of …
A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in a small amount of blood drawn from a cancer patient. The breakthrough technology uses a simple mechanical method that has been shown to be more effective in trapping cancer cells than the microfluidic approach employed in …
Orbital ATK successfully launched the Antares rocket carrying the S.S. Alan Poindexter Cygnus spacecraft today at 7:45 p.m. EDT. The Cygnus spacecraft will berth with the International Space Station at 7:05 a.m. EDT on October 23. For the OA-5 mission, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft is carrying approximately 2,400 kg (5,290 lbs.) of supplies …
Dell designed a unique approach to liquid cooling that’s built on Dell’s rack-scale infrastructure. Is is a completely new datacenter cooling solution from the ground up to improve performance during peak times while reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO). It was a proof of concept for EBay that is being made broadly available. Because …