There is a live streaming console with video, pictures and up to date messages 19:45:03 PST:NSS has now provisionally qualified to compete in the Games Summarizing Space Elevator Feasibility ArticlesFor a Carbon Nanotube tether that is 30 MYuri [A MYuri is the name we gave the SI equivalent of N/Tex, or GPa-cc/g] strong, and a …
The Huffington Post tries to make a big deal out of baby chicks being ground up and turned into chicken nuggets As it turns out, about half of all of the baby chicks born in the United States are male. This number is estimated at 200 million male baby chicks per year. Male chicks do …
Red lines show the new canals that are being built The Grand Canal of China, also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the longest ancient canal or artificial river in the world. Starting at Beijing it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou. The …
The Wake Forest Clinical trial for granulocyte infusions to cure cancer was cancelled but a new South Florida clinical trial is proceeding. The clinical trials are to see if simple blood transfusions can transfer cancer immunity from people with strong cancer immunity to those without such strong immunity. This procedure has been shown to cure …
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly 10 times faster than usual when Google’s new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show. According to tests run by Computerworld, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) with the plug-in was 9.6 times faster than IE8 on its own. Computerworld ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite …
1. IBM has successfully developed a prototype of the semiconductor industry’s smallest, densest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device in next-generation, 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. IBM’s used 32 nanometer SOI technology to fabricate a test chip with an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) with transistor density four times higher than conventional 32 nanometer SRAM …
103 page pdf, advanced propulsion study for the US Air Force made in 2004 On pages 25-27, the blast wave accelerator is described. It is something that could be made with current technology and would have launch costs of $200-2000/kg. Explosive or blast-wave accelerators are a member of the class of chemical catapult (artillery gun …
Two separate research developments with graphene advance applications with graphene for electronics. One is the engineering of tunable bandgaps and the other is formation of nanostructures that connect graphene layers. 1. Wang, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, have engineered a bandgap in …
1. Superconductor Meissner Transition found at 242 K Superconductors.org reports efforts to increase the Tc of the 233K superconductive material, announced in March 2009, have been successful. Producing a new world record near 242K (-24F, -31C), the host compound has the formula (Tl4Ba)Ba4Ca2Cu10Oy and is believed to have a 9212/2212C intergrowth structure. The chemical formula …
A special material called spin ice, co-discovered in 1997 by Professor Steven Bramwell of the London Centre for Nanotechnology has come close to revealing a secret of the universe. Most computer memories store information magnetically, and if there was the ability to use magnetic rather than electric charges to read and write bits to and …
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. have created an “astro-comb” to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars. Presentation CMII1, “Femtosecond Laser Frequency Comb for Precision Astrophysical Spectroscopy,” Chih-Hao Li et al, 3:45 p.m., Monday, June 1. Right now standard spectroscopy techniques can determine star movements to within a few …