When compounds of bromine or chlorine (represented in blue) are introduced into a block of graphite (shown in green), the atoms find their way into the structure in between every third sheet, thus increasing the spacing between those sheets and making it easier to split them apart. Image: Chih-Jen Shih/Christine Daniloff A team of MIT …
EETimes – Intel still lacks a design win in a top tier tablet. Intel is pushing down the power and size of notebook computers. Intel will describe Ultrabooks at the Computex conference in Taiwan. The Ultrabook is a work in progress. Early versions will arrive in cases just 20mm thick and price points under $1,000 …
At Google I/O 2011, the Android team shared some updates. There are now: * 100 million activated Android devices * 400,000 new Android devices activated every day * 200,000 free and paid applications available in Android Market * 4.5 billion applications installed from Android Market Android 3.1 update (new version of Android called Ice Cream …
Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost of generating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industry executives and analysts said. Large photovoltaic projects will cost $1.45 a watt to build by 2020, half the current price, Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimated today. The London-based research company says solar …
On Tuesday, Japan’s economy minister Kaoru Yosano said nuclear power would remain the primary source of energy for the Japanese economy, despite concerns over safety after the incident. Japan estimated the nation will get 50 percent of electricity from nuclear power in 2030, compared to 33 percent at present, and Yosano indicated that the plan …
We have used multi-epoch images from the Infrared Array Camera on board the Spitzer Space Telescope to search for substellar companions to stars in the solar neighborhood based on common proper motions. Through this work, we have discovered a faint companion to the white dwarf WD 0806-661. The comoving source has a projected separation of …
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have discovered a drug that stops the progression of the degenerative illness in mice and is now being tested on humans. “Drugs currently used to treat Parkinson’s disease just treat symptoms; they do not stop the disease from getting worse,” said senior author Curt Freed, MD, …
The province of Shanghai, China, took part in a OECD eduction study for the first time and scored higher in reading than any country. It also topped the table in maths and science. More than one-quarter of Shanghai’s 15-year-olds demonstrated advanced mathematical thinking skills to solve complex problems, compared to an OECD average of just …
BBC news reports on IBMs plans for its Aquasar water cooled computer chips. IBM wants to make a sugar cube supercomputer processor with many water cooled layers. It takes about 1,000 times more energy to move a data byte around than it does to do a computation with it once it arrives. What is more, …
click on the picture for a larger view of how Hong Kong will connect to China with high speed rail The Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railways began operation this year, and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway is also expected to be operational by the end of 2011. The high-speed rail from Shanghai to Hong Kong is …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) recently completed its first integrated ignition experiment. In the test, the 192-beam laser system fired 1 megajoule of laser energy into its first cryogenically layered capsule, …