NZWeek – A new high-speed railway connecting central China’s Zhengzhou City and the eastern city of Wuhan opened last Friday. The Zheng-Wu high-speed railway, covers a distance of 536 km and trains will pass along it at a designed speed of 350 km per hour. The Zheng-Wu high-speed railway has cut the travel time from …
Small, light-weight and low-cost missions will become increasingly important to NASA’s exploration goals for our solar system. Ideally teams of dozens or even hundreds of small, collapsable robots, weighing only a few kilograms a piece, will be conveniently packed during launch and would reliably separate and unpack at their destination. Such teams will allow rapid, …
Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a technology that goes on a “seek and destroy” mission for cancerous tumors. They have harnessed the power of lasers to find, map, and non-invasively destruct cancerous tumors. “Using ultra-short light pulses gives us the ability to …
A University of Washington lab has been working for more than a decade on fusion energy, harnessing the energy-generating mechanism of the sun. But in one of the twists of scientific discovery, on the way the researchers found a potential solution to a looming problem in the electronics industry. To bring their solution to market …
1. Japan’s top utility Tokyo Electric Power Co aims to gradually restart the nuclear reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant starting from April 2013, to curb fossil fuel costs. Following are the company’s goals for restarting the seven reactors at the 8,212 megawatt plant, the world’s biggest nuclear complex by output. But it remains unclear …
Energy Catalyzer – A Low Energy Nuclear Device (LENR) device in Professor Peter Hagelstein’s lab at MIT has been running since January (nearly six months) and may have produced 1000 times the energy of a comparable chemical reaction. The device is the NANOR created by Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy Inc. Hagelstein revealed details of …
CORDIS – EU-funded scientists made advances in the development of a hybrid quantum system (HQS) by combining different quantum technologies. The ‘Hybrid quantum systems – integrating atomic/molecular and solid state quantum systems’ (HQS) project combined ultracold atoms with superconducting devices. Scientists considered that an ensemble of ultracold atoms could be coupled to a superconducting transmission …
The US Navy wants a bidder to design, develop and demonstrate a UV obscuring material that may be dispersed from an aircraft. One concept might include a device that very rapidly generates an extended, dense cloud of material that absorbs in the UV region. Other concepts might include, but are not limited to, quantum dots …
Astrophysical Journal – Kinematical and Chemical Vertical Structure of the Galactic Thick Disk. I. Thick Disk Kinematics The variation of the kinematical properties of the Galactic thick disk with Galactic height Z is studied by means of 412 red giants observed in the direction of the south Galactic pole up to 4.5 kpc from the …
LA Times – Imagine a car that gets more than 40 miles per gallon in everyday traffic and 50 on the highway — and it isn’t an expensive hybrid and it doesn’t require special fuel. Get ready for a new generation of cars equipped with surprisingly powerful three-cylinder engines that, according to early reviews out …
Ultra-high-resolution 3D Printer is breaking speed-records at the Vienna University of Technology. The 3D printed lines are a few hundred nanometers wide. It might become possible with metamaterials to reduce the lines to tens of nanometers. 100 layers, consisting of approximately 200 single lines each, are produced in four minutes. Because of the dramatically increased …