Here is an interview of Geoffrey Noer. (interview by Sander Olson) Mr. Noer is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for SGI, formerly Rackable. At the Supercomputing 2009 conference SGI unveiled the Altix UV supercomputer, which scales to petaflop levels and is capable of running standard software without recompilation. SGI is focused on becoming a …
Kazakhstan mined 13,500 metric tons of uranium as of Dec. 21 and will mine at least another 400 tons before the end of the year, Almaty-based, Kazatomprom said in a statement e-mailed today. The press release also discussed Australia and Canada production from second hand source quotation. Actual quarterly and annual reports should be available …
A new method of moving tiny particles using magnetic polymer beads and magnetic fields could find uses in microchips and in medicine. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, the Merton C. Flemings Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, his doctoral student Charles Sing, and researchers at Boston University and in Germany, devised a system that uses so-called superparamagnetic …
Carnival of Space 134 is up at Cambrian Sky This site supplied an article about maxing out the VASIMR plasma rocket with nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reactors Note: nuclear fusion can have a superior option with the Bussard QED propulsion system (direct heating of electrons). Centauri Dreams looked at A ‘Super-Earth’ with an Atmosphere …
Multistage horizontal drilling is opening previously ignored section of the Cardium Pembina oil reserve Pembina, with an estimated 7.8 billion barrels of original oil in place, is Canada’s largest conventional onshore oilfield. Despite extensive secondary recovery through waterfloods, less than 1.4 billion barrels has been produced. The scale of the remaining prize continues to draw …
New Scientist reports that there is something big out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That’s the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds. Last year, Sasha Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues identified an …
calcium and vitamin D nutritional status substantially reduces all-cancer risk in postmenopausal women. This suggests and provides reinforcement for nutrigenomics. Imagine a physician or dietitian handing you a set of individualized nutritional guidelines based on your unique genetic makeup – one that could help you ward off such diseases as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. That’s …
Department of Energy’s ARPA-E selects 37 projects to pursue breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Five of the 37 Projects are for Carbon CaptureCarbon capture …
A free-trade agreement between China and Taiwan could boost China’s gross domestic product growth by 0.36-0.4 percentage point and by 0.63-0.67 percentage point after the members of the Asean +3 trade bloc begin removing import tariffs as soon as 2010. Taiwan’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) will increase by an estimated 1.72 percent if Taiwan and …
For high frequency electromagnetic light waves in the frequency range of several 100,000 gigahertz (500,000 GHz corresponds to yellow light with 600 Nm wavelength), one needs very small antennas, which are not larger than a half light wave length, thus maximally 350 nanometers (1 nanometer = 1 millionth millimeter). The scientists of the DFG Heisenberg …
EEtimes reports that China’s Hauwei launching new HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus / 3G HSPA Evolution [HSPA+]) cellular system in 2010 that has 56 mbit/s download speeds. Huawei has already deployed over 10 commercial HSPA+ network contracts. In Asia Pacific, it has worked on a commercial 28Mbit/s HSPA+ network and, with operators including Japan …