The researchers also will work with self-driving Segway transporters, which will be programmed to work together as teams for mapping and search-and-rescue-applications. Physorg reports that Cornell is geting a new $1,473,121, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to advance the self driving car. “We’ll be looking at the next level of intelligence in the …
Kingdom Holding Company is still planning a mile high tower as is reviewing design bids despite the recent worldwide financial crisis. It is a currently estimated USD 13,300,000,000 project (13.3 billion dollar). Burj Al-Meel is a proposed supertall skyscraper to be located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud’s Kingdom holding company is …
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a workshop at the agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9, to discuss generic issues regarding potential applications for so-called “small and medium-sized” nuclear reactors. We’re going to examine how these ‘small’ reactor vendors would need to address the NRC’s requirements in areas …
1. India could have 470 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2050 if it thinks big and manages its program correctly, said the country’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Singh’s prediction of a future Indian reactor fleet bigger than the current global total came at the opening of the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy …
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 …
1. University of North Carolina engineers have produced a ‘How-To’ Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles. researchers from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel. …
From the BBC News and many other sources, scientists say they have developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of HIV infection by more than 30%. It is the first time a vaccine has been shown to give even this limited protection against the virus that causes Aids. The vaccine was tried out on 16,000 …
Dwave Systems researchers have written a paper describing a novel rf-SQUID flux qubit. It is robust against fabrication variations in Josephson junction critical currents and device inductance has been implemented. Experimental results were shown to be in agreement withpredictions of a quantum mechanical Hamiltonian whose parameters were independently calibrated, thus justifying the identification of this …
1. IBM has successfully developed a prototype of the semiconductor industry’s smallest, densest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device in next-generation, 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. IBM’s used 32 nanometer SOI technology to fabricate a test chip with an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) with transistor density four times higher than conventional 32 nanometer SRAM …
Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, than are the skin cells most often used by researchers, according to a new study from Stanford’s School of Medicine. 30-40% of Americans are obese. Thirty to 40 percent …
2009 is the first year that we’re really seeing all of the display types mentioned here—LED LCD, OLED, E-Ink, and legacy CFL LCD, plasma and others—all coexist in the market and establish themselves in their respective niches. LCD-backlit LED has so far brought incremental advances to the mobile-computing space, the place where it’s poised to …