California High-Speed Rail Program Draft Revised 2012 Business Plan (212 pages) The Authority has confidence that the cost of delivering the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles/Anaheim system, in accordance with Proposition 1A performance standards, is reduced by almost $30 billion, now estimated at $68.4 billion. Under the phased approach, and consistent with Proposition 1A, construction of any …
Pioneer Natural Resources is now deepening its wells to include the Wolfcamp Shale and other, deeper zones that contribute additional oil reserves. Pioneer is also in the early stages of a new horizontal drilling program in the Wolfcamp Shale and has reported very encouraging results to date. Wolfcamp is below the Spraberry field and is …
PJMedia has Rand Simberg providing the speech that Newt needs to give now about objectives and vision in the US space program. There has been a great deal of controversy in the last few days on a subject that, in this country, should have been fairly uncontroversial — the greatness of America and its ability …
Eurekalert – A research team led by UC Davis Health System scientists has developed a novel technique to enhance bone growth by using a molecule which, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the body’s stem cells to travel to the surface of bones. Once these cells are guided to the bone surface by this molecule, …
Technische Universitaet Muenchen – Extremely thin, more stable than steel and widely applicable: the material graphene is full of interesting properties. As such, it is currently the shining star among the electric conductors. Photodetectors made with graphene can process and conduct both light signals and electric signals extremely fast. Upon optical stimulation, graphene generates a …
Item 3 describes the emergence of significant populist movements in China to push for better air pollution monitoring and controls. Item 1, 2 and 4 describe national and regional efforts to step up monitoring and air pollution controls in China. 1. Xinhuanet – China’s environmental planning body is seeking to lower the levels of small …
HPCWire – At SC11 in Seattle, Intel showed off an early silicon version of Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) “Knight Corner,” the codename for its first commercial product based on their MIC architecture. Intel has produced “a few tens of chips” for early testing. According to Hazra, they were manufactured at one of their fabs …
Nanoletters – Holographic Control of Motive Shape in Plasmonic Nanogap Arrays Here we demonstrate that 4-beam holographic lithography can be utilized to create plasmonic nanogaps that are 70 times smaller than the laser wavelength (488 nm). This was achieved by controlling phase, polarization, and laser beam intensity in order to tune the relative spacing of …
In the computer simulation, a slow-moving cloaked sphere leaves no wake at all as it moves downward (inset, left), while the cloak still reduces the turbulence behind the sphere at faster speeds (inset, middle and right). Physics World – a pair of physicists in the US have proposed a new type of material that lets …
The Acer Iconia Tab offers Android Honeycomb on a 10.1-inch screen along with GPS, front and rear cameras, Adobe Flash compatibility, full-size USB host port, HDMI output, and a reasonable price. Acer’s Iconia Tab offers the features of the Motorola Xoom at iPad-beating prices but weighs in as the heftiest Android tablet yet. In spite …
1. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, worldwide camera phone sales will exceed 1 billion units for the first time in 2011. The fastest growing segment will be the high-tier camera phone market with sensors of eight megapixels and above. Worldwide camera phone sales are projected to grow 21 percent from 918 million …