HPCWire – NVIDIA today launched the second generation of its breakthrough workstation platform, NVIDIA® Maximus™, featuring Kepler™, the fastest, most efficient GPU architecture. The Maximus platform, introduced in November, gives workstation users the ability to simultaneously perform complex analysis and visualization on a single machine. Now supported by Kepler-based GPUs, Maximus delivers unparalleled performance and …
A technical report on the Cigar Lake Uranium mine was produced on Dec 31, 2011 Cigar Lake will be one of the biggest Uranium mines in the world. From 2016, it is planned to produce 8000-9000 tons per year for 10 years. The mine will nearly double the uranium production from Canada 2013 a few …
InTouch Health, the leader in acute care remote presence telemedicine, and iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT), a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, announced the companies will unveil the breakthrough RP-VITA (Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant) at the InTouch Health 7th Annual Clinical Innovations Forum, to be held July 26 – 28 in Santa Barbara, …
Science – Entangling Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism Today we have two families of high-transition temperature (Tc) superconductors, based respectively on compounds in which copper and iron atoms occupy a layered square lattice. An open question is how the quantum mechanics of electrons moving cooperatively on such lattices leads to high-Tc superconductivity. Both families display antiferromagnetism as …
The Spacex launch was aborted at the last second. They will try again in three days If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
Nature – Three studies published this week show that introducing new cells into mice can replace diseased cells — whether hair, eye or heart — and help to restore the normal function of those cells. These proof-of-principle studies now have researchers setting their sights on clinical trials to see if the procedures could work in …
Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK are currently testing the Energy Bag, a large inflatable energy storage device submerged in water’s off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology floated a similar idea last year using hollow concrete spheres instead of inflatable bags as a storage vessel. Now the …
Foreign Policy – the $10 trillion global black market is the world’s fastest growing economy. Shadow Economies and Corruption all over the World: New Estimates for 145 Countries by Friedrich Schneider (63 pages) The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of “official” GDP) in 2004/05 in 96 developing countries is 36.7%, in …
A team of Australian scientists involving the University of Adelaide has bred salt tolerance into a variety of durum wheat that shows improved grain yield by 25% on salty soils. Using ‘non-GM’ crop breeding techniques, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry have introduced a salt-tolerant gene into a commercial durum wheat, with spectacular results shown in …
Telegraph UK – The Japanese earthquake caused a tsunami. The tsunami was a wall of destruction travelling at 40 or 50mph. Hundreds, thousands of people were being killed before my eyes, some in the most horrible way. And on that first day, like all journalists, I began writing about the disaster much as I had …
Technology Review – Fully autonomous self-driving cars are still far from the market, but a wide range of features—including sensor systems that warn of lane departures and imminent crashes, and can even apply the brakes if you don’t—are rapidly showing up in midmarket cars. The 2013 Ford Taurus and Fusion have a radar rear end …