Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 170 is up at the National Geographic Breaking Orbit blog. This site provided an article of different high power density systems to go with VASIMR plasma rockets. The VASIMR mission architectures with the 39-day travel times had assumed an overall mission mass …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software German manufacturer Kalkhoff has an e-bike with an 18 amp-hour battery option which can provide 88 mile range and Giant bicycles is employing has a 2011 Twist ebike with two batteries to get 100 mile range. Eurobike 2010 had a lot of interesting electric bikes. The …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new concept opens the door to creating an intense isolated attosecond pulse using a conventional femtosecond laser system. Physical Review Letters – Infrared Two-Color Multicycle Laser Field Synthesis for Generating an Intense Attosecond Pulse We propose and demonstrate the generation of a continuum high-order harmonic …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Week discusses the progress towards common and convenient organ replacement, tissue engineering and stem cell rejuvenation and therapies. How would that affect life expectancy? In a world in which aging or diseased people can swap a damaged heart, liver, or other organ for a new …
FCC Chairman Genachowski’s Remarks, “Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity”, NARUC Conference. Our plan will set goals for the U.S. to have the world’s largest market of very high-speed broadband users. A “100 Squared” initiative — 100 million households at 100 megabits per second — to unleash American ingenuity and ensure that businesses, …
Nuclear bombs and nuclear material are difficult to detect in the millions of shipping containers that are handled at ports. There are various active and passive systems but they are only partically effective. Ion accelerators using a range of energy levels should be faster and more discriminating (detect a high percentage of correct positives and …
The UK National Physical Laboratory is part of a european collaborative research project. They have brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including NPL, have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, …
Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada are being sued for up to $60 billion for violating music copyright on over 300,000 songs The four primary members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association. The claims arise from a longstanding practice of the recording industry in Canada, described in …
1. Chemists from the University of Würzburg have made progress to achieving artificial photosynthesis Nanocapsules have been loaded with reactive molecules which convert UV light to visible light which varies based on the pH of the environment. The chemical conversion to light could lead to artificial photosynthesis and separately be used for tiny sensors for …
HP today announced new inertial sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than high-volume products currently available. A MEMS accelerometer is a sensor that can be used to measure vibration, shock or change in velocity. By deploying many of these detectors as …
UK Telegraph: You can date the end of dollar hegemony from China’s decision last month to sell its first batch of sovereign bonds in Chinese yuan to foreigners Beijing does not need to raise money abroad since it has $2 trillion (£1.26 trillion) in reserves. The sole purpose is to prepare the way for the …