1. EETimes reports that Intel will be able to extend 193 nm immersion lithography to 11 nanometers, as Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is late again Intel hoped to use EUV at 22-nm, which is due out in 2011. The problem is that EUV will not be ready in time for 22- or 15-nm in production–at …
The Carnival of Space 141 is up at Starry Critters This site contributed – powering and moving rubiks cube size satellites. MIT News – An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility — and may eventually allow them to take on deep-space missions. This site also supplied an article on …
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the British Heart Foundation at the University of Oxford have developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video – a new technology that is attractive for science, industry and consumer sectors alike. By combining off-the-shelf technologies found in …
Hans Rosling in a TED Talk discusses the history of individual health and wealth from 1858 through today and into the future. He discusses the importance of national sovereignty, which helped Japan from 1858 to 1949 when India and China did not have it. I will give the punchline date at the end of this …
Applied Physics Letters – Single step, complementary doping of graphene A single-step doping method capable of high resolution n- and p-type doping of large area graphene is presented. Thin films of hydrogen silsesquoxane on exfoliated graphene are used to demonstrate both electron and hole doping through control of the polymer cross-linking process. This dual-doping is …
China Daily – Do three errors mean breaking point for IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) ? I was impressed by the presentation of Dr Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist and founding director of the US Weather Satellite Service, who challenged the IPCC findings with his research data. In the next few days, I …
Focusfusion.org reports Chris Hagen of National Security Technologies announced for the first time an operational project in Las Vegas, Nevada to use large Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) fusion as neutron sources for testing purposes. National Security Technologies had built in 2008 a 500 kiloJoule Dense Plasma Focus called Tallboy that produced 3 MA (million amps) …
Bryan Bishop posted transcripts of the talks at the Hplus SummitGregory Benford of Genescient talked about their latest work. They have methuselah fruit flies that live 4-5 times longer. They believe that they have products that could increase human lifespan 10-30% or more. * a product that we will deploy commercially in 6 months around …
1. Telegraph UK, researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. (H/T Instapundit) But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it. “We started our research seeking …
MIT Technology review reports that a group from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany detected the real SARM (selective androgen receptor modulators)in a product called Andarine, available online for $100 and labeled as green tea extracts and face moisturizer. Selective androgen receptor modulators have steroid effects but are believed to be safer, without many …
Microstructure of passive and active F-actin solutions and networksvisualized by electron microscopy (A–C) and fluorescence microscopy (A–CInsets, E, and F). (A) Passive solutions are isotropic, homogeneous, and unbundled.(B) Active solutions ([myosin]/[actin] 0.02 and 5 mMATP) are still homogeneous(Inset), but the myosin locally aligns and bundles the actin filaments. (C)Active networks ([FLNa]/[actin] 0.005, [myosin]/[actin] …