Arxiv – ABSTRACT – We report on the superior vortex pinning of single and multilayer Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films with self-assembled c-axis and artificially introduced ab-plane pins. Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 can accept a very high density of pins (15-20 vol%) without Tc suppression. The matching field is greater than 12 T, producing a significant enhancement of the critical …
Penn World tables 7.1 has been released and has an internet forms interface which html, SAS and text file formats. The data is up to 2010. They have two methods for calculating China’s PPP and have a result of 10.8 trillion or 11.7 trillion. India’s PPP GDP 2010 Penn World Tables 7.1 was 4.69 trillion …
New Scientist – One of the two new studies shows that last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, underestimated actual sea level rise. That’s because the IPCC’s fourth assessment report (AR4) did not include contributions from the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. So, for the years …
1. World Nuclear News – the Husab mine project in Namibia is now set to start. It is expected to take 34 months to construct the mine, with uranium production slated to begin sometime in the third quarter of 2015. The operation will be an open pit mine with an acid leach process plant on …
Kazuma Kurihara (Senior Researcher) and Hideki Takagi (Leader), Large Scale Integration Team, the Research Center for Ubiquitous MEMS and Micro Engineering have developed a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device fabrication technology that uses only printing and injection molding. This has been achieved by integrating the microfabrication technology and the MEMS design evaluation technology of AIST. A …
NY Times – The Pentagon’s advanced research agency said on Wednesday that it will offer a prize of $2 million to the winners of a contest testing the performance of robots that could be used in emergencies like the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. In one competition the contestants will build their own robots, while …
Gigaom – Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures and oil giant Total back a liquid metal battery company called Ambri Ambri is developing a battery for the power grid using molten salt sandwiched between two layers of liquid metal. The battery is still about two years from commercialization, and the team has built a 16-inch prototype, though …
California is a far more populous state than it was in 1960, when it was second to New York in population size, with 15,717,204 people. Since then, the state has grown 137 percent, to 37,253,956 in 2010. For comparison, consider New York, which grew by only 15 percent during that same period. On the other …
stewart armstrong talked about how we are predicting AGI (he worked with Kaj Sotala) Bottom line – we are bad at predicting AGI. (artificial general intelligence) He just says we should expand error bars. instead of 2040 say 2017 to 2113. I think we need to work better at defining what we mean by AGI. …
NY Times – the National Ignition Facility, uses 192 lasers to fire light beams at tiny targets, smaller than peppercorns, filled with hydrogen atoms. After spending more than $5 billion to build and operate a giant laser installation the size of a football stadium, the Energy Department has not achieved its goal of igniting a …
BigThink – Singularity University team Infinity – presented their plan for a standardized, modular platform to manufacture drones. The group successfully flew a drone in Zero G gravity, cutting that cost by a factor of 10, and wants to utilize the drones for STEM education, 3D mapping, and anything else that could be accomplished by …