Russia’s next generation long-range bomber PAK-DA will be armed with hypersonic weapons, a Defense Ministry source told RIA Novosti Friday. “PAK-DA will be equipped with all advanced types of precision guided weapons, including hypersonic,” the source said, adding that the bomber itself will be subsonic. Earlier this week, Boris Obnosov, general director of the Tactical …
Short-term shareholder value maximization is still pervasive in large organizations but has destroyed major segments of the US economy and killed the recovery from the financial crisis of 2008 It has led to “bad profits” that have destroyed customer loyalty. It is responsible for massive offshoring of manufacturing, thereby destroying major segments of the US …
Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung are partnering to bring internet access to the remaining 5 billion people. Today, only 2.7 billion people – just over one-third of the world’s population — have access to the internet. Internet adoption is growing by less than 9% each year, which is slow considering how early …
Global supply is estimated to have increased by 575 kb/d m-o-m in July, to 91.85 mb/d, led by higher non-OPEC production. Strong growth in North America is expected to lift 2H13 total non-OPEC supply by an average 1.4 mb/d y-o-y, to reach 55.4 mb/d in 4Q13. Global refinery crude demand surged by 3.1 mb/d in …
Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability worldwide. Approximately 16 million first-ever strokes occur each year, leading to nearly 6 million deaths. Nevertheless, currently, very few therapeutic options are available. Cell therapies have been applied successfully in different hematological diseases, and are currently being investigated for treating …
Here are more of the most recent batch of NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program NIAC Phase I awarded projects. Pions and Muons from galactic cosmic ray collisions can be used to map the interior of asteroids to the meter scale and a depth of a kilometer Established remote sensing methods provide coarse, indirect information …
Rice University shows how water makes it practical to form long graphene nanoribbons less than 10 nanometers wide. And it’s unlikely that many of the other labs currently trying to harness the potential of graphene, a single-atom sheet of carbon, for microelectronics would have come up with the technique the Rice researchers found while they …
Tall buildings inviting accusations of hubris is as old as the Tower of Babel. The skyscraper index, which places the completion – or the proposal, it’s not entirely clear – of a “world’s tallest” tower as the sign of an incoming recession or financial crisis. Careful statistical study has found that the height of buildings …
Lester Brown, Julian Cribb and others who predict that the world will head into an era of food scarcity and rampant famine are wrong … again. Ehrlich and Malthus were wrong too They’re wrong, and their virulent strain of technopessimism—which is finding lots of resonance in the media these days—has been wrong for a long …
Early information from Bigelow Aerospace finds private companies are interested in using a permanent moonbase by the 2020s. A study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows ‘a lot of excitement and interest from various companies’ for moonbases and other space projects. The projects range from pharmaceutical research aboard Earth-orbiting habitats, to missions to the …
The people behind Ushahidi, a software platform for communicating information during a crisis, have now developed what they are dubbing a “backup generator for the Internet”—a device that can connect with any network in the world, provide eight hours of wireless connectivity battery life, and can be programmed for new applications, such as remote sensing. …