The Los Angeles auto show has a one thousand pound car design competition. The objective is to envision an efficient, light-weight, four passenger vehicle (not to exceed 1,000 lbs.), that is both comfortable and safe, while delivering satisfactory driving performance without sacrificing the styling consumers demand. For the first time studios from Germany and Japan …
Climate research computer at ORNL (Oak Ridge National Lab) to be called ‘Gaea, Mother Earth The Cray XT6, which has a peak capability of 260 teraflops, will be upgraded in the future and eventually reach the petascale capability. The supercomputer is part of the $215 million project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Example of how spin packets in a condensed matter system can be accessed and studied, adapted from Kubo et al. A diamond slab containing nitrogen-vacancy center spins (arrows) is positioned above a microfabricated superconducting resonator. A magnetic field BNV is applied as shown to tune the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley, where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and realistic 3D mapping of difficult interior environments. The backpack is the first of a series …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientists are seeking the recipe for regrowing a missing limb. Molecular biologist Ken Muneoka, who studies limb development and regeneration at Tulane University, in New Orleans, is exploring how a digit loss that can be repaired differs from one that can’t. Working with mice, his team …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In 2006, Matthew Simmons and John Tierney made a bet on the average price of oil in 2010. Their final agreement was a commitment to tabulate every closing price-per-barrel of oil for each market day of 2010, then average out those prices for the entire year …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software “Wear‐resistant Diamond Nanoprobe Tips with Integrated Silicon Heater for Tip‐Based Nanomanufacturing,” demonstrates the ability of UNCD® tips integrated with doped silicon atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers for use in nanomanufacturing. The initial ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) tip radius can be as small as 15 nm, and retains …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Gigaphoton (Japan) announced a 104 watt Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light source which is a critical part for the realization of the first volume-production-worthy EUV light source target for 2011. It was made under the Laser Produced Plasma (LPP) Light Source Development Program for EUV Lithography, it …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. There are various clinical trials for insulin pills. Being able to deliver proteins in time released pill form could provide many benefits for insulin and other conditions. The human body is designed to digest proteins. Acids and enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract will chew up …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software DuPont Displays announced the development of a manufacturing process that the company says can be used to print large, high-performance OLED televisions at volumes that should bring down costs. Using a custom-made printer from Japanese manufacturer Dainippon Screen, DuPont says it can print a 50 inch-television …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A dependency ratio measures the number of people either too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people within working age. For the statistic’s sake, the working age is considered to be 15 to 64. Having a dependency ratio that is sharply …