The foundation for the artificial skin is a flexible organic transistor, made with flexible polymers and carbon-based materials. Ultrasensitive electronic skin developed by Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao is getting even better. Now she’s demonstrated that it can detect chemicals and biological molecules, in addition to sensing an incredibly light touch. And it can now be …
After a one month hiatus, the Carnival of Space is back. Nextbigfuture will be working with Universe today on the organization of the Carnival of Space. There are hosts signed up into April. 1. the Planetary Society has Amateur image processor Daniel Macháček took five images of Phobos from Mars Express’ recent flyby and produced …
Hplus Magazine has detailed coverage on Genescient (life extension company) and their new Stem Cell 100 product I have started taking Stem Cell 100. It is about $60 for a one month supply. I would also recommend supporting SENS rejuvenation research and Robert Freitas’s nanomedicine work (donate through IMM) Genescient’s primary business focus is on …
Washington Post – North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North’s deadly shelling of a South Korean island. A South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff officer tried to play down the significance …
Arxiv – Independent individual addressing of multiple neutral atom qubits with a MEMS beam steering system (9 pages) One of several promising approaches to quantum computing uses arrays of individual atoms suspended by electromagnetic forces. Pulses of laser light manipulate the internal states of the atoms that represent the qubits, to carry out the calculation. …
Arxiv – Pair Creation in QED-Strong Pulsed Laser Fields Interacting with Electron Beams (25 pages) QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counterpropagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J ≥ 5 · 10^22 W/cm2 combined with …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software David Gelertner was writing about the concept of Lifestreams back in 1995 and 1996 and predicted the modern internet in the book Mirror Worlds in 1991. A lifestream is a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you …
Synthesis of a fullerene-based one-dimensional nanopolymerthrough topochemical transformation of the parent nanowire (30 page pdf) Large-scale practical applications of fullerene (C60) in nanodevices could be significantly facilitated if the commercially-available micrometer-scale raw C60 powder were further processed into a one-dimensional (1D) nanowire-related polymer displaying covalent bonding as molecular interlinks and resembling traditional important conjugated polymers. …
Computer simulations show that the breaking strength of neutron star crust is about 10 billion times more than for terrestrial engineering materials such as metal-alloys where the strength is measured in fractions of a GPa. The largest contributor to this tremendous difference is of course the enormous pressure and thus density of the crust. The …
A new-found aspect to superconductivity, called the “paramagnetic intrinsic Meissner effect,” is that a strong magnetic field could be used to raise temperatures at which materials become superconducting. A superconductor in a weak magnetic field expels the external magnetic field, but a superconductor in a strong magnetic field sometimes concentrates magnetic lines rather than loses …
Emitted droplets from an electrified fuel injector split to become smaller and smaller. A small device (less than $200 to produce) placed just before the fuel injection for the engine, producing a strong electric field to reduce the fuel viscosity, resulting in much smaller fuel droplets in atomization. Because combustion starts at the droplet surface, …