The Voyager team put the new data together with information from the other instruments onboard, they calculated the moment voyager 1 escaped the solar system occurred on or about 25 August, 2012. Sensors on Voyager had been indicating for some time that its local environment had changed. Voyager is now embedded in the gas, dust …
Gliese 1214b is about 2.7 times Earth’s diameter and is almost 7 times as massive. It is located 42 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The Japanese researchers used the 8.2 meter Subaru telescope to make the find. Super-earths are an emerging population of extrasolar planets whose masses and radii lie between those of …
In June, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades. The ambitious proposal – which could become the benchmark for other cities dealing with climate change – could reshape Lower Manhattan’s waterfront, with …
1. Earlier this month, Mobileye, the Israeli and Dutch maker of advanced driver assistance technologies, claimed that self-driving cars “could be on the road by 2016.” Rather than Google cars’ array of radar, cameras, sensors and laser-based range finders, Mobileye wants to offer autonomous driving capability at a more affordable price point by using mainstream …
Geordie Rose is the CTO and Founder of D-Wave Computing, a Canadian company that is currently selling a 512 qubit superconducting quantum annealing system. They plan to have a 2048 qubit system within about two years. The 2048 qubit system could be 500,000 times faster for certain optimization problems. Google and Lockheed have already purchased …
China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy in the second quarter of 2010. China’s economy should double Japan’s GDP late in 2013 or early in 2014 (less than 14 months). Japan’s GDP has been going between a band of 470 trillion yen and 524 trillion yen (based on current prices) from 1996 to 2013. …
Experiments ( by researchers at USC, ETH Zurich, and the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, Microsoft Research) have demonstrated that quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits takes place in the D-Wave One device, despite limited qubit coherence times. The key evidence is the rich, correlation between the success probabilities on the …
Using superconducting nanowires and lasers, a new camera system can produce high-resolution 3-D images of objects from up to a kilometer away. The technology works by sending out a low-power infrared laser beam, which sweeps over an object or scene. Some light gets reflected back, though most is scattered in different directions. A detector measures …
To reduce the radiation hazard for manned missions to Mars and beyond, a high specific impulse-high thrust system is needed, with a nuclear bomb propulsion system the preferred candidate. The propulsion with small fission bombs is excluded because the critical mass requirement leads to extravagant small fission burn up rates. This leaves open the propulsion …
Usually, results from a new study help scientists inch their way toward an answer whether they are battling a health problem or are on the verge of a technological breakthrough. Once in a while, those results give them a giant leap forward. In a preliminary study in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), …
EETimes has FBR actual and estimated sales statistics for tablets for 2012 and 2013. Apple will still maintain 55%-60% market share in tablets in 2012 and 2013. 1. Apple iPad 2. Apple iPad Mini The next most popular tablets are 3. Kindle Fire (HD) 4. Google Nexus 5. Samsung Galaxy 6. Barnes and Noble Nook …