Steven Spielberg made a prediction that Hollywood was doomed because the big $300 million movies could not sustainably make over $1 billion and that people did not have time for the movies. What are the specific movies that are guaranteed to make over $1 billion and likely over 1.5 to 2 billion ? James Cameron …
Researchers have demonstrated an invisibility cloak that can be scaled to almost any size and say it could be used to hide orbiting satellites. John Howell at the University of Rochester in New York, and Benjamin Howell, show how to make simple cloaks that hide huge objects over the entire optical spectrum, albeit with a …
Ontario is home to about 40 percent of Canada’s population and accounts for 48 percent of Canada’s gross domestic product. It’s the fourth-largest population center in North America, after Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles, and it produces more cars than any other region in North America, including Michigan. Ontario also has the Americas’ …
The new and improved bunker buster, has adjusted fuses to maximize its burrowing power, upgraded guidance systems to improve its precision and high-tech equipment intended to allow it to evade Iranian air defenses in order to reach and destroy the Fordow nuclear enrichment complex, which is buried under a mountain near the Iranian city of …
Fightaging reports how the world of cancer treatments is changing profoundly, gearing up for a new generation of therapies that will displace chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Reprogramming immune cells or introducing targeted viruses and nanoparticles to seek out and kill cancer cells with few side-effects will be the standard operating procedure twenty years from now – …
Nordseewerke, which produces Statue of Liberty-sized foundations for ocean wind turbines, ramped up its manufacturing capacity and head count in 2011 after Merkel declared that Germany would begin a massive project to install 25,000 megawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. More than two years later, Germany wind farms have been slow to appear, stymied …
Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The system converts natural gas and sunlight into a more energy-rich fuel called syngas, which power plants …
A novel fabrication technique developed by UConn engineering professor Brian Willis could provide the breakthrough technology scientists have been looking for to vastly improve today’s solar energy systems. Over the next year, Willis and his collaborators in Pennsylvania plan to build prototype rectennas and begin testing their efficiency. Read more: http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=29256.php#ixzz2M73ryUdY For years, scientists have …
Problem: What if war could be fought using technology that’s more humane and could achieve political or tactical goals without killing civilians? Solution: Targeted military force could do limited harm or potentially do good instead of the drone missle strikes that are used today. Technology: Natalie proposes unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could be used in …
A report claiming that a mysterious blast rocked the Fordow uranium enrichment facility in Iran last week made headlines in Israel on Sunday, but remained unverified. According to the report, penned by former Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Reza Kahlili, for the WND.com website, the explosion “destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep …
Some have claimed that the Sky City 220 story skyscraper project was cancelled (instead of just delayed). 1. In the China Daily site, has an interview with Wang Shuguang, general manager of subsidiary Broad USA. “The idea is to set up franchises anywhere such as the United States, using the techniques of making sustainable prefabricated …