Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Hi, everybody this is Joseph Friedlander, continuing a guest article series on Nextbigfuture. In Praise of Large Payloads for Space by Joseph Friedlander Part 1 is here In this series I hope to discuss first some of the largest systems proposed to reach orbit with big payloads, …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Forbes released their list of billionaires for 2010 This year the World’s Billionaires have an average net worth of $3.5 billion, up $500 million in 12 months. The world has 1,011 10-figure titans, up from 793 a year ago but still shy of the record 1,125 in …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Ecomotors Opposed-Piston Opposed-Cylinder Engine could make class 8 trucks 45% more fuel efficient Ecomotors has a goal to demonstrate, in 2010, the automobile industry’s first 5-passenger car capable of 100 mpg on the EPA highway cycle. Greencarcongress reports – With a two-module application configured at the appropriate …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. Sundrop Fuels, a startup based in Louisville, CO, says it has developed a cleaner and more efficient way to turn biomass into synthetic fuels by harnessing the intense heat of the sun to vaporize wood and crop waste Its process can produce twice the amount of …
Nano Letters – A Path to Ultranarrow Patterns Using Self-Assembled Lithography The templated self-assembly of block copolymer (BCP) thin films can generate regular arrays of 10−50 nm scale features with good positional and orientational accuracy, but the ordering, registration and pattern transfer of sub-10-nm feature sizes is not well established. Here, we report solvent-annealing and …
The Carnival of Space 141 is up at Starry Critters This site contributed – powering and moving rubiks cube size satellites. MIT News – An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility — and may eventually allow them to take on deep-space missions. This site also supplied an article on …
After reaching around 4.6 billion mobile cellular subscriptions by the end of 2009, ITU expects the number of mobile cellular subscriptions globally to reach five billion in 2010, driven by advanced services and handsets in developed countries and increased take-up of mobile health services and mobile banking in the developing world. ITU expects to see …
A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond could enable humans to walk on walls like spiderman The rapid adhesion mechanism could lead to such applications as shoes or gloves that stick and unstick to walls, or Post-it-like notes that can bear loads, according to Paul Steen, professor …
1. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean volume of 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil in the Orinoco Oil Belt Assessment Unit of the East Venezuela Basin Province; the range is 380 to 652 billion barrels. (4 page pdf) Estimates of Original Oil-in-Place A comprehensive study by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) …
Times Online UK is reporting that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is retracting its claim that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 * The claim was based upon a 1999 news story in the New Scientist. * The New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, …
Applied Physics Letters- Super-resolution imaging using a three-dimensional metamaterials nanolens Super-resolution imaging beyond Abbe’s diffraction limit can be achieved by utilizing an optical medium or “metamaterial” that can either amplify or transport the decaying near-field evanescent waves that carry subwavelength features of objects. Earlier approaches at optical frequencies mostly utilized the amplification of evanescent waves …