Physicists at MIT have now cooled a gas of potassium atoms to several nanokelvins — just a hair above absolute zero — and trapped the atoms within a two-dimensional sheet of an optical lattice created by crisscrossing lasers. Using a high-resolution microscope, the researchers took images of the cooled atoms residing in the lattice. The …
China General Nuclear Power (CGN) and China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) plan to build four more indigenous nuclear reactors on the mainland of China. CGN plans to use the Hualong One design for the fifth and sixth reactors at the Ningde plant in Fujian province, while CNNC plans to use the reactor in the first …
Arxiv – Neuromorphic, Digital and Quantum Computation with Memory Circuit Elements Memory effects are ubiquitous in nature and the class of memory circuit elements – which includes memristors, memcapacitors and meminductors – shows great potential to understand and simulate the associated fundamental physical processes. Here, we show that such elements can also be used in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Europhysics letters – A phonon laser in ultra-cold matter It is shown that the possible excitation of a phonon laser instability in an ultra-cold atomic gas confined in a magneto-optical trap. Such an effect results from a negative Landau damping of the collective density perturbations in …
Carnival of Space 137 is up at noisyastronomer This site provide the article on the risk of manmade sun explosions The Bad Astronomer provides the picture of Mars and its frozen CO2 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
The Wall Street Journal reports that China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holdings Co., one of the country’s two nuclear-energy firms, said it will need more than 100,000 metric tons of uranium between 2009 and 2020 to feed its growing fleet of nuclear-power plants, a huge jump from current demand levels that underscores the scope of China’s …
A Two million euro grant has been provided to dr. Bert Meijer of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The grant allows Meijer to explore the area of non-covalent synthesis of functional supramolecular systems. These supramolecular systems can be seen as small molecular factories built from molecules connected via weak interactions. They possess unique properties and …
Anders Sandberg discusses his view of the summit as a speaker and a participant. Anders provides a view into the follow up discussions that occured at lunch and other breaks. Anders also provides good analysis of the Artificial Intelligence talks from the perspective of someone in the field of AI and Brain Emulation. (H/T Michael …
20 pages of supplemental information in regards to sheets of nanoparticles being created using DNA by researchers at Cornell University. – A densely-packed DNA ligand layer around the nanoparticles is required to achieve a high degree of order. – a high degree of order was only observed in a low-salt condition (< 5 mM NaCl), …
Advanced Cell Technology is the company behind the new stem cell blood breakthrough which could supply unlimited disease free blood. The company is only up 50% to a valuation of 6.7 million. Biotime is a related company Robert Lanza is the chief scientist behind Advanced Cell Technology and was featured in Discover Magazine. He is …
Falcon HTV-3X The Blackswift Hypersonic program may not get fully funded for the $750 million that it needs, but the program has a lot of interesting technology and innovations for greater efficiency. This technology and innovations are discussed below. Making a scramjet rocket would be a better program to fund for space access. A scramjet …