A team of researchers from the US and Germany have now confirmed that the Wendelstein 7-X (W 7-X) stellerator is producing the super-strong, twisty, 3D magnetic fields that its design predicted, with “unprecedented accuracy”. The researchers found an error rate less than one in 100,000. “To our knowledge, this is an unprecedented accuracy, both in …
The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post. Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous …
Physics Today has a speculative article that proposes that laser light be used to shape and polish an asteroid to high optical standards. This could create an Asteroid Belt Astronomical Telescope (ABAT). The Asteroid Belt Astronomical Telescope (ABAT) focuses light from laser-polished asteroids onto dual imaging arrays above and below the solar system; other intense …
The following are the leaked AMD codenames that are part of the Avian APU roadmap: Gray Hawk: 7nm APU based on Zen+ architecture. Snowy Owl: 14nm APU based on Naples. Horned Owl: 14nm APU based on Zen cores, will succeed Raven Ridge. Banded Kestrel: 14nm APU, roughly half of Horned Owl. Horned Owl and Banded …
The Marines completed a proof-of-concept test in which a Marine Corps F-35B detected a cruise-missile decoy (a drone), passed targeting information to a remote sensor, and set up a shot by an Aegis combat system of the sort you’ll find on modern destroyers. A battery controlled by the Aegis fired a live SM-6 missile, which …
The US Army, Navy and Air Force all have dedicated research labs The military research labs are currently pursuing what is called the third military offset strategy. First offset – nuclear weapons In the Cold War, the U.S. and its NATO allies sought a series of competitive advantages over the Soviet Union, a means by …
Elbit Systems introduce today the Skylark C – the first naval member of its electrically powered mini-UAV family. Based on the operational and combat-proven Skylark I-LEX Mini UAS, the naval variant extends the Skylark reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities to the maritime domain. Inertial navigation system (INS) and a stabilized, electro-optical (EO) payload with a high-resolution …
Several organisms can stop or reverse the aging process. After spawning its polyps, the adult Turritopsis nutricula regresses back to a polyp, beginning its life anew. This is accomplished by turning adult cells back into stem cells, going against the usual developmental direction from stem cells to differentiated cells—in essence driving backward down a one-way …
On Monday, Royal Dutch Shell ended its nine-year effort to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic — a $7 billion investment — in another sign that the entire industry is trimming its ambitions in the wake of collapsing oil prices. An oil forecast by Kirk Spano (Bluemound Asset Management) is that oil prices will …
A group of scientists from Russia, the USA and China, led by Artyom Oganov from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), using computer generated simulation have predicted the existence of a new two-dimensional carbon material, a “patchwork” analogue of graphene called phagraphene. The results of their investigation were recently published in the journal …
Carnival of Nuclear Energy 276 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome Yes Vermont Yankee – The NRC has received three related petitions against continuing to use Linear No Threshold (LNT) and ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) for rule-making. The comment period is now open on those petitions. In this post, Meredith Angwin gives background information …