Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature. The findings show that researchers can create a “recipe book” to build new materials of sorts using topology, a major mathematical field that describes the properties that …
IEEE Spectrum publishes a ranking of company patent power. The patent benchmarking takes into account not only the size of organizations’ patent portfolios but also the quality, as reflected in characteristics such as growth, impact, originality, and general applicability. DWave Systems (adiabatic quantum computers) ranks 4th behind IBM, HP and Fujitsu in conmputer system patents. …
The Economist World in 2013 has forecasts for GDP for many countries. 15 countries have nominal GDP over 1 trillion. 10 countries have nominal GDP over 2 trillion. Population in millions GDP and PPP in billions Country Population GDP per Cap PPP per cap GDP PPP USA 317 51525 51525 16333 16333 China 1340 6800 …
Bloomberg – Saudi Arabia plans to produce 18 gigawatts of electricity from nuclear plants and 9 gigawatts from wind energy by 2032, Eqtisadiah daily reported, citing an official at the agency developing the country’s renewable energy program. The country also plans to generate 1,000 megawatt from geothermal energy sources and 3,000 megawatt by turning waste …
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Nasaspaceflight.com has a forum for discussion of space issues. Information acquired by L2 this week revealed plans for a “game-changing” announcement as early as December that a new commercial space company intends to send commercial astronauts to the moon by 2020. According to the information, the effort is led by a group of high profile …
Misfit Wearables raised $7.6 million in a round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures back in April. CThey have a new product called Shine. Misfit Wearables’ first device is a sleek activity tracker that records how much you’re moving like the FitBit or Nike’s Fuelband do. The form factor is simple and elegant. The …
1. Weirdwarp looks at light and whether it is made up of waves or particles. This question has been around for ages. Photons which are particles of light are said to be both particles and waves by quantum theory. Physicists from the University of Bristol have backed up the quantum theory with a new demonstration …
Northwestern University – Steve Ciatti, a mechanical engineer at Argonne National Laboratory west of Chicago, modifies diesel engines. By the time he finishes, emissions are reduced 66 to 95 percent and gas mileage improves. Q: Why hasn’t there been more progress in fuel economy for cars sold in the U.S. despite the high price of …
Aviation Week – NASA says operations aboard the International Space Station should not be affected if the SpaceX CRS-2 cargo delivery mission currently slated for January slips as a result of the ongoing investigation into the first-stage engine loss that occurred on the Oct. 7 CRS-1 mission. The supply cache delivered to the station in …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more …