1. There are 22 cities with a population over 10 million people today, according to the United Nations. By 2040 there should be 31 more cities with over 10 million people based on current projections. They will predominantly in China with nine and India with eight. The numbers also show that the world is becoming …
The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon – promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech industry, including much faster transistors and far more compact hard drives. A collaboration …
Nature Scientific Reports has Breaking the diffraction-limited resolution barrier in fiber-optical two-photon fluorescence endoscopy by an azimuthally-polarized beam Although fiber-optical two-photon endoscopy has been recognized as a potential high-resolution diagnostic and therapeutic procedure in vivo, its resolution is limited by the optical diffraction nature to a few micrometers due to the low numerical aperture of …
China is predicted to reach 4.8 billion metric tons per year by 2020, up from 3.65 billion tons in 2013. The prediction was made by China National Coal Association vice president Liang Jiakun. China uses about half of the world total in coal. Chinese coal production of 3.66 billion tonnes at the end of 2012 …
The 2011 round of the International Comparison Program (ICP) results will include ICP 2011 benchmark PPPs (purchasing power parity) and related volume measures for 199 participating countries/economies. Given the complex nature of the ICP and the fact that it has become the largest worldwide statistical operation, the program decided that the December release will be …
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such planets dominate the galactic census but are not represented in our own solar system. Astronomers don’t know how they form or if …
The World Bank’s Global Health 2035 report sets out some bold ambitions for the next two decades, but they are achievable with the right investment. Global rates of infectious diseases and mortality from reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in low- or middle-income states are set to fall sharply. By 2035 they should rival the …
IBM today announced that, for the first time, it will make its IBM Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud, to enable a worldwide community of software application providers to build a new generation of apps infused with Watson’s cognitive computing intelligence. The move aims to spur innovation and fuel a new …
Hirobo makes a lot of remote controlled model planes. Hirobo plans to make a one man micro electric helicopter and have it ready for market in 2016. Lack of regulations by the United States Federal Aviation Authority would be the inhibiting factor for market availability. Selling price will be in the range of US$240,000. It …
Retrograde orbits around the moon are stable and can be used as places park redirected near earth asteroids. Possible Selenocentric Distant Retrograde Orbits (SDRO) Applications In Addition To Redirected Asteroid Storage • Remote operation of lunar surface robotics with humans in SDRO • Reusable interplanetary transport infrastructure “garage” between missions in SDRO Trades Between EML1/2 …
US daily crude oil production is at 7.896 million bpd and total crude oil production is at 12.525 million bpd. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. …