Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Thomas Friedman discusses the effect of the world’s only superpower getting weighed down with a lot of debt * “The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era” is the title of a new book by Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Economist magazine had recent coverage of R-Jet Engineerings orbiting combustion nozzle (OCN) engine. To ease its entry into the market, R-Jet reckons OCN engines could be used first as generators to produce electricity or to power an unmanned drone. With operating experience, the engines could …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Turkey and South Korea are planning in mid-November to enter into one of the most important phases of the process of building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey worth nearly $10 billion. (H/T Dan Yurman) Under an intention voiced jointly by Turkey and South Korea …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Even if the human race manages not to push itself to the brink of nuclear extinction, it is still a foregone conclusion that our aging sun will expand and swallow the Earth in roughly 7.6 billion years. So, according to famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, it’s …
Metamaterial sound proofing from materials less than an inch thick would be as good as 4 foot thick walls for soundproofing. People outside a metamaterial sound proofed room – no one will hear you screaming inside Applied Physics Letters – Acoustic metamaterial panels for sound attenuation in the 50–1000 Hz regime The Hong Kong University …
1. Researchers at IBM have increased the efficiency of a novel type of solar cell made largely from cheap and abundant materials by over 40 percent. According to an article published this week in the journal Advanced Materials, the new efficiency is 9.6 percent, up from the previous record of 6.7 percent for this type …
MIT Technology Review – IBM has created prototype graphene transistors made from atom-thick sheets of carbon, operate at 100 gigahertz–meaning they can switch on and off 100 billion times each second, about 10 times as fast as the speediest silicon transistors. IBM has created graphene transistors that leave silicon ones in the dust. The prototype …
One week ago (Jan 3, 2010) Avatar had a domestic box office total: $352.1 million. and Foreign total: $670.2 million for a $1.02 billion world total This week (Jan 10, 2009) Avatar has over $300 million more worldwide at $1.33 billion with $430.8 domestic and $902.1 (67.7%) foreign There was only a 29% drop in …
Previously nanocars were created and now there is a somewhat faster nanodragster. The Nanodragster operates at lower temperatures and rolls more easily. It was created by James Tour and his research colleagues. The synthesis and imaging by scanning tunneling microscopy of a mixed wheeled nanovehicle composed of a p-carborane small-wheeled short front axle and a …
1. WSJ – A prominent Chinese think tank on Wednesday said now is a good time for a 10% revaluation of the yuan as it warned the world’s third-largest economy is at risk of asset bubbles and overheating this year. The comments, in an essay by a researcher at the Institute of World Economic and …
A novel technology involving use of stem cells, developed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers, has been applied to provide better and rapid healing for patients suffering from complicated bone fractures. The technology, involving isolation of the stem cells from bone marrow, was developed by Dr. Zulma Gazit, Dr. Gadi Pelled, Prof. Dan Gazit and …