Space.com coverage of the Planetary Resources announcement. (H/T Alfin) Venture Beat had their coverage of the press conference. The Arkyd 102 telescope in person (top) and in mocked-up artwork from Planetary Resources (bottom) If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
Technology Review – An international team of researchers has used a combination of genomic and gene expression analyses to identify 10 subtypes of breast cancer, each of which is typified by certain genetic aberrations. The classification of cancers can help researchers and doctors better understand patients’ responses to different therapeutics as well as prioritize drug …
Inside Science – Several research groups claim to have thin one molecule thick sheets of silicon called silicene (analogous to graphene for carbon), igniting a controversy over who won the race to synthesize this promising new material. According to Lew Yan Voon, electronic devices based on silicene could reliably exhibit the critical on-off function required …
Wired – By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light. Codenamed Corona, this laser-powered contraption would handle ten trillion floating points operations a second. In other words, if you put just five of them together, you’d approach the speed of today’s supercomputers. The chip’s …
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is developing the GridION system, a new generation of electronic molecular analysis system for use in scientific research, personalised medicine, crop science, security/defence and more. The platform technology uses nanopores to analyse single molecules including DNA/RNA and proteins. New generation of sequencing technology uses nanopores to deliver ultra long read length single …
1. DARPAs Mobile Hotspots program intends to develop and demonstrate a scalable, mobile, millimeter-wave communications backbone with the capacity and range needed to connect dismounted warfighters with forward-operating bases (FOBs), tactical operations centers (TOCs), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets, and fixed communications infrastructure. The backbone should also provide reliable end-to-end data delivery among the …
Internet videos not only let you learn physics from Richard Feynmann but also let you learn how to kip up from Ryan Doyle (Parkour expert) and how to dance the Michael Jackson Thriller Dance Learn how to kip up and more Parkour for Beginners Parkour Fight Science Learn how to Thriller Dance – first 6 …
Pitt physicists have been able to obtain higher-precision measurements with “single-electrons in-diamond” approach. The paper documents important progress towards realizing a nanoscale magnetic imager comprising single electrons encased in a diamond crystal. They have used quantum computing methods to circumvent hardware limitations to view the entire magnetic field. By extending the field, the Pitt researchers …
North Dakota produced 488068 barrels of oil per day in October, 2011 This is 100,000 barrels per day more than in June, 2011. North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms indicated that the boom in North Dakota oil is likely to lead to over 500,000 barrels per day by the end of 2011 …
Nature Asia – Carbon nanotubes are known for their remarkable mechanical and electrical properties — but can these properties be improved upon? Calculations by Yongjun Tian and colleagues from Yanshan University and Nankai University in China have now shown that three-dimensional (3D) arrays of nanotubes could have strikingly enhanced mechanical and electronic properties. Tian and …
Berkeley labs has a simpler approach for the fabrication of plasmonic materials by inducing polyhedral-shaped silver nanocrystals to self-assemble into three-dimensional supercrystals of the highest possible density. Plasmonics is the phenomenon by which a beam of light is confined in ultra-cramped spaces allowing it to be manipulated into doing things a beam of light in …