NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system’s formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth. After …
Atomic resolution electron micrograph of activated graphene. The images show that the material is composed of single sheets of crystalline carbon, which are highly curved to form a three-dimensional porous network. Activated graphene combines high storage capacity with quick energy release and unlimited recharge. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have …
A very high level roadmap for OpenCog development in the next 12 years — all the way from here to advanced human-level AGI has been published. For a more specific roadmap regarding the next 2 years, please consult the wiki. OpenCog Roadmap: 2011-2023 2011-2012: A Proto-AGI Virtual Agent * Integrated “toddler-level” intelligence for video game …
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will provide expertise to a multi-year technology investment program to develop the next generation of extreme scale supercomputers. The first two phases of the [exaflop scale] project extend into 2014, and a full system design and simulation is expected at the completion …
The 100-Year Starship study is trying to create a vision that makes business sense yet will motivate generations to development and create manned interstellar spaceflight. Develop a business case and an enduring organization. The 100-Year Starship study will examine the business model needed to develop and mature a technology portfolio enabling long-distance manned spaceflight a …
The Carnival of Space 175 is at Out of the Cradle. This site contributed two articles : DARPA and NASA chip in small amount of funds for hundred year starship program and some nearer term space propulsion (microwave thermal and electric propulsion) The science journal abstracts on the lunar water and other material discovery analysis …
Superconductors.ORG reports signs of superconductivity near 267K magnetic (-6C, 21F). This suggests a resistive Tc (temperature critical) around 264-265 Kelvin, which would be another world record for a 9223 copper-oxide structure Sharif University (Iran) published some confirmation of Joe Ecks work with Ultra-YCBO in several peer reviewed physics journals (Physica C, European Physical Journal B) …
NASA announced its groundbreaking discovery of lunar water last November. Now, a more detailed analysis of the data—the subject of six research papers being published in the journal Science—concludes that there is a lot more water on the moon than anyone expected, about twice the concentrations seen in the Sahara Desert “It’s really wet,” said …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Emerging North American Oil plays are reviewed 13 emerging oil plays are reviewed in a 219 page document which is embedded below. They are being enabled with horizontal drilling and are mostly tight oil shale. Alberta Basin Bakken Shale North Dakota Bakken Barnett Combo Horizontal Niobrara …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Fujitsu begins shipping parts for a 10 petaflop supercomputer that is scheduled to begin operations in 2012 Fujitsu announced that today it began shipping the computing units for Japan’s Next-Generation Supercomputer, nicknamed the “K computer”. The supercomputer is a central part of the High-Performance Computing Infrastructure …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Highly Flexible and All-Solid-State Paperlike Polymer Supercapacitors with six times higher energy current. Given its high capacitance and flexibility that surpass current commercial supercapacitors, the new supercapacitor should be attractive for use in wearable electronics. Combined with flexible large-scale integrated circuits, these new supercapacitors …