BBC News- NASA has identified three possible options to capture and gather up sample material either in future orbiting spacecraft or on planetary rover. One is an adaptation of a well-known effect called “optical tweezers” in which objects can be trapped in an area where two laser beams cross. However, this version of the approach …
China’s GDP expanded 9.1 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of the year, the slowest pace since the third quarter of 2009. China’s strong retail sales growth suggests that there is a shift to greater domestic demand. The slow moderation in GDP is indicating a softening of growth instead of a collapse. The growth rate …
Groundbreaking holographic radar pinpoints impact of rapid shell fire for US Department of Defense. Following just 14 months of development, Cambridge Consultants unveiled the industry’s first holographic radar scoring system, the Land and Surface Target Scorer (LSTS). Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology design and development firm, has successfully carried out trials tracking 5 inch shells …
Over the years, three MIT researchers and one of the companies that licensed the MIT patent, Z Corp., added new variations to 3d printing, including the ability to include colors in printed objects and to use a variety of materials. The ability to print metal objects, in particular, extended the technology from just a way …
Reconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today — with sutures — as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advancing the technique. Now, a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a sutureless method that appears to …
Not only do the images produced by GelSight, a new, portable imaging system from researchers in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, have a resolution that previously required expensive laboratory equipment, but they’re 3-D, too. Here, GelSight images particles of ink spelling the word ‘ink’ on a piece of paper. Image: Micah Kimo Johnson …
Unwired – In a few years, every Android device maker may have to pay an average $10 licensee fee to Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, HP and Oracle. That’s $60 per device only for the rights to put Android OS on it. The actual situation is more complicated based on whether someone could pay one of …
Xinhua News – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao describes a democratic and technology future vision for China. “Tomorrow’s China will be a country that fully achieves democracy, the rule of law, fairness and justice,” the Chinese premier noted. He pointed out that the best way to resolve the existing problems in China is “to firmly advance …
Crowlspace looked at what the new Spacex Falcon Heavy could do for a lunar mission. With a slight modification a Falcon Heavy can orbit ~55 tons of propellant. Then a fully loaded Dragon Capsule can dock with it and use it to launch into a Lunar, or Halo, Orbit. A landing vehicle, preplaced in Low …
The Carnival of Space 192 is up at Vega00. Parallel Spirals looksat the India Space Research Organizations 2010 Annual report They look at the space access component of this report which is titled, “Space Transportation”. 2011 will see only two flights of the PSLV. These are the PSLV-C16 carrying Resourcesat-2, YOUTHSAT and XSat-1 and PSLV-C17 …
This is a schematic of the physical layout of the soft generator. Battery technology hasn’t kept pace with advancements in portable electronics, but the race is on to fix this. One revolutionary concept being pursued by a team of researchers in New Zealand involves creating “wearable energy harvesters” capable of converting movement from humans or …