An international team of researchers – led by Associate Professor Hui Ying Yang from Singapore University of Technology and Design – showed that water purification membranes enhanced by plasma-treated carbon nanotubes are ideal for removing contaminants and brine from water. This work paves the way for the next generation of portable water purification devices, which …
The Binshui New City management committee said that construction of the 838-metre Sky City – which developers plan to build in a record-breaking seven months – would not proceed until “relevant legal procedures” were met, Xinhua reported. The panel said nine domestic construction experts had studied the project, including its structure and quake resistance, but …
Crime peaks around age 17 or 18. Age and the Explanation of Crime, Revisited from the University of Arizona re-examines age and crime. They followed 1,300 serious juvenile offenders in Phoenix and Philadelphia over a seven-year period. They controlled for 40 different things that were changing over these seven years. The researchers were able to …
A University of Missouri professor has resurrected his two-decade-old work in the contested field of cold fusion. He presented his findings at a cold fusion conference in August in South Korea. Neutron Emission from Cryogenically Cooled Metals Under Thermal Shock (7 pages) Mark Prelas, now a professor in the university’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, …
This robot is made of silicone. It can walk, change color and light up in the dark. It can even change temperature. And it can do all of this for less than $100. In the future, robots like this might be made for just a few dollars. In a development to be reported in the …
Nature – One of the greatest sources of uncertainty for future climate predictions is the response of the global carbon cycle to climate change. Although approximately one-half of total CO2 emissions is at present taken up by combined land and ocean carbon reservoirs, models predict a decline in future carbon uptake by these reservoirs, resulting …
A simple three-step chemical reaction which could herald the introduction of new sustainable feedstocks for the chemical industry has been developed by scientists at The University of Nottingham. Scientists in the School of Chemistry have developed a recyclable system for converting carbon monoxide (CO) directly into more complicated organic molecules using depleted uranium. The research, …
Researchers arranged carbon monoxide molecules to form the same hexagonal pattern found in graphene, except that they could adjust molecular spacing slightly. They placed individual molecules of carbon monoxide onto a copper sheet. The material’s electrons behave remarkably like relativistic particles, with a “speed of light” that they can adjust. Additionally, the researchers could change …
At next week’s SPIE Advanced Lithography conference (San Jose, CA), imec announces the successful implementation of the world first 300mm fab-compatible Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) process line all-under-one-roof in imec’s 300mm cleanroom fab. The upgrade of an academic lab-scale DSA process flow to a fab-compatible flow was realized in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, AZ …
Jim Rogers gave his opinion about the current world financial problems * Rogers noted he would own the U.S. dollar, or the Swiss Franc, or agriculture. * China is doing their best to cool things off … I expect them to continue to do it, and that is causing more slowdown around the world. * …
I have previously provided my opinion on the three major views on what a possible Technological Singularity will be like. 1. Event Horizon – The claim is that future becomes weirder than we can imagine now and changes faster than we can handle. I believe that we will still be able to understand the changes …