Self-organized complex systems are ubiquitous in nature, and the structural complexity of these natural systems can be used as a model to design new classes of functional nanotechnology based on highly interconnected networks of interacting units. Conventional fabrication methods for electronic computing devices are subject to known scaling limits, confining the diversity of possible architectures. …
North Korea staged at an “ejection test,” designed to demonstrate the ability of a sub to shoot up a missile from under the water, have it ignite, and begin flight. The missile appears to have gone about 100 or 150 meters, according to South Korean officials, about the length of a football field. North Korea …
Instead of just looking at cities’ administrative borders or “statutory city population,” OECD’s study takes into account surrounding “functional urban areas” (FUA), which may lie outside the administrative borders but are significant to the social and economic makeup of the city. A lot of this is the result of China’s complex “hukou” system, the registration …
The Congressional Research service recently provided a Navy report of Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress. US laser development has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface …
“The Interview,” the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 [335] movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell-out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression. The film also was available to U.S. …
Ocean Acidification: Cause, Impact and mitigation from IIT Kanpur Limestone mitigation Presentation by Rau describes the limestone mitigation method Journal of Geophysical Research – Mitigating the atmospheric CO2 increase and ocean acidification by adding limestone powder to upwelling regions The feasibility of enhancing the absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere by adding calcium carbonate (CaCO3) …
Breakthroughs in diabetes research is being presented. The cellular and biological causes of diabetes. Camillo Ricordi – Cellular therapies and regenerative medicine strategies for treatment of diabetes Lipogems in chondropathy (coldplay) Cell Transplant – A new nonenzymatic method and device to obtain a fat tissue derivative highly enriched in pericyte-like elements by mild mechanical forces …
At the end of 2013, China’s 17 operational nuclear power plants were generating about 2 percent of the country’s total energy, according to Xinhua. But Ye Qizhen, an expert in nuclear energy at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told the newswire that China should aim to get 10 percent of total energy from nuclear power. …
Ugo Bardi and Michael Dittmar contributed to a new Club of Rome report which forecasts economic doom because of lack of future resources. Nextbigfuture has shown Ugo Bardi analysis to be flawed and bets on Uranium annual production and Nuclear power generation have been won by Nextbigfuture for 6 out of 9 bets versus Dittmar. …
Aubrey de Grey talks about antiaging medicine. Here are key points If you want to get rid of Alzheimers, Heart Disease and Cancer for good then we will have to fix aging. Those aging diseases will only get totally cured by fixing aging. The best way to fix aging is to constantly fix the damage …
Thermoelectrics are slabs of semiconductor with a strange and useful property: heating them on one side generates an electric voltage that can be used to drive a current and power devices. To obtain that voltage, thermoelectrics must be good electrical conductors but poor conductors of heat, which saps the effect. Unfortunately, because a material’s electrical …