The week 6 weekend domestic box office for Avatar was $36 million. This was a 16% drop from the previous weekends $42 million. The foreign markets do not report until tomorrow, but should have about $100-120 million. The rest of the week should probably have a little over $3 million per day domestically. Previous nextbigfuture …
UQ (University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia) physicists and Harvard chemists have teamed up to build a quantum computer that could have profound implications for wider science. Professor Andrew White and colleagues from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics, teamed up with researchers from Harvard University, led by Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik, to tackle the problem of …
T Pyxidis is a binary star system in the constellation Pyxis at about 3260 light years from Earth. It contains a sun-like star and a white dwarf. The White dwarf might supernova in the next several million years. Sion’s team has reached the conclusion that T Pyxidis is about to go supernova (in this case, …
Researchers developed a set of conditions in which leptin treatment potently improves diabetes independent of its ability to correct weight and food intake. The new findings confirm what some at least had already suspected: that leptin’s antidiabetic effects are independent of the hormone’s well-known ability to reduce body weight. Researchers have found that even a …
Physorg reports that Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures while employing chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) techniques which are in widespread use in semiconductor manufacturing. Fujitsu Laboratories developed novel technology that allows for graphene to be formed on insulating film …
Moller International (OTCBB: MLER) is pleased to announce that it has successfully developed and tested a damage resistant, carbon fiber blade technology that increases durability for the ducted fans used in its Skycar® and Neuera™ VTOL aircraft product lines. This improvement reduces blade rotating inertia, allowing the fans to respond quicker to roll and pitch …
(a) Zebrafish embryo immobilized by suction capillary. (b) Needle inserted into yolk sack. (c) Electroosmotic pumping of methylene blue solution into the embryo by the application of 25 V for 10 s. (d) Needle retracted from the embryo. Credit: McMaster Engineering Physorg reports the construction and operation of a microfluidic micro-injector achieved an almost 80 …
The recent problems with the San Francisco Bay Bridge highlights the need to address the larger problems with the bridges in the United States Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, says he’s concerned that authorities took a “Band-Aid” approach in September [to fixing the Bay Bridge]. “It failed,” he …
United Nations health agency said that more than 4,735 deaths attributable to H1N1 had been reported, and that influenza activity in the northern hemisphere was much higher than usual. WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said it was too soon to draw any conclusions from the death toll as experts needed to monitor a full year of …
The World Bank projects that the number of people living in extreme poverty (on less than $1.25 a day) will fall slightly in 2009, declining from 1,203 million in 2008 to 1,184 million. The share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty is also expected to decline by a small amount, from 21.3 percent …
Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The Sandia work will be helped in future by being able to use bug free code for operating system kernels developed by the University of New …