Projects at the University of California at Santa Barbara will focus on developing new quantum measurement techniques to manipulate and read out single electron spins in diamond. The projects will also focus on the on-chip integration of single electron spins with photonics, for communication. Additionally, the project aims to build a world-class research facility for …
Desert sand is made hydrophobic be adding the additive SP-HFS 1609. The additive creates a capilliary breaking hydrophobic encapsulation of the sand making it resistant to salts, particularly sodium chloride salts. The Federal Environment Agency (FEA) in Berlin has approved Hydrophobic Sand as being environmentally safe. The product comes with a 30 year guarantee for …
This plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity consists of a silica interior that is coated with a thin layer of silver. It improves on the quality of current plasmonic microcavities by better than an order of magnitude and paves the way for plasmonic nanolasers. (Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) 1. The principle behind whispering …
Carnival of Space Week 88 is up at the Space Writer This site provided the article on laser array space launch details The Music of the Spheres provides an introduction to electric propulsion rockets. Electric Propulsion rockets were also featured in the latest Popular Science magazine. Orbital Hub looks at the Kepler exo-planet hunter mission …
Here is a video showing what General Fusion is doing. As previously described: if you can get within ten to hundred times the cost of regular power, you would still have huge uses for nuclear fusion. You could revolutionize space travel even if it costs more for nuclear fusion than it does for regular power. …
There were two interesting developments in physics : 1. higher volume metamaterial production could enable practical uses out of the lab and 2.small magnetosphere (several hundred of meters instead of 100+ kilometers wide) radiation protection for space travellers. This could enable light weight and safe protection for astronauts going to Mars. UPDATE: The minimagnetosphere system …
A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. (Usually from another animal.) Two methods of producing transgenic mice are widely used: – transforming embryonic stem cells (ES cells) growing in tissue culture with the desired DNA;– injecting the desired gene into the pronucleus of a …
Professor Peter Weyand, Southern Methodist University (Texas), known for his expertise in terrestrial locomotion and human and animal performance says that humans would soon have the ability to modify and greatly enhance muscle fibre strength. This would enable speeds of 45 miles per hour and 5 seconds times for 100 meters. The fast four-legged runners …
By fabricating an optical cavity around light-emitting nanotube mirrors at the bottom and top, wavelengths were confined to the desired 1.55-micron communications frequency. IBM researchers see a development path to light emitting nanotubes with no waste heat and a way to create a superlattice array of tubes for silicon photonic chips for optical computers. EETimes …
What if the Soviet Union still existed ?GDP estimates from wikipedia This GDP table is in billions. Country GDP (2008 nominal) GDP (2009 nominal) PPP 2009 Population Russia 1,700 2,016 2462 141.9 Ukraine 183 221 366 46.1 Belarus 53 61 125 9.7 Kazakhstan 134 148 196 15.4 Azerbaijan 49 63 93 8.5 Georgia 13.5 16.6 …
Areva and the University of Idaho have signed an agreement to develop technology for recovering uranium from incinerator ash at Areva’s uranium fuel plant in Richland, Washington state. The process also reduces the amount of ash classified as radioactive waste. Chien Wai, a chemistry professor at the University of Idaho, has developed a process that …