A Conservative government is projected in Canada’s 2011 election with the NDP as the opposition With 15 ridings not reporting. The Conservatives look likely to win a majority based on how the look of current results. Leading/Elected 155 needed for majority Conservatives 154 NDP 104 Liberals 31 Bloc 4 Other Conservative government projected. NDP projected …
CNN and other news sources report Osama bin Laden was killed by a “U.S. military asset,” according to a senior U.S. official. Earlier, a senior U.S. official says bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members. Members of Pakistan’s intelligence service – …
1. Idaho Samizdat – Initial look at lessons learned from Fukushima Below are the first 10 of 14 lessons learned listed at Idaho Samizdat. This paper outlines the initial list of lessons learned from the multiple sequence of events, some interpretations of the news releases and the aspects of safety culture that contrast Japan and …
Evonik has successfully developed materials and systems for lightweight solutions for the automotive sector. Together with three other industrial partners (Johnson Controls GmbH, Jacob plastics GmbH and Toho Tenax Europe GmbH) and the University of Aachen (Institute for textile technology [ITA] and Automotive Institute [IKA]). Creavis the strategic research and development centre of Evonik is …
Earth if it was made of water and gravity was only thing shaping it 1. Universe Today – GOCE Data Close Up: Around the World in Lumpy, Geoidy 3-D New looks at the latest info from GOCE showing Earth’s geoid, which is essentially a map of the shape our world would be if its surface …
Trendlines has a riding by riding projection for the Monday, May 2, 2011 Canadian election UPDATE: Election night: 7:44PM PST. # # Leading/Elected 155 needed for majority Conservatives 165 NDP 105 Liberals 35 Bloc 2 Other 1 CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY PROJECTED. NDP projected as opposition. by Ron Nurwisah, National Post at 5/3/2011 9:03 PM The most …
New neutron “fingerprints” discovered with polarized gamma-rays at Duke could be the foundation for new port security scanners. Graphic: Ashley Yeager, Duke. Two teams of North Carolina physicists are mapping the intricacies of the atomic nucleus, which could provide better security at the ports. The scientists have identified new “fingerprints” of nuclear materials, such as …
wafer holds many individual microrobots. Each robot consists of a body (about 100 micrometers long) and an arm that it uses to turn. Several of these robots can be controlled at once. Credit: Igor Paprotny Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University have shown how to use a single electrical signal to …
Arxiv – memristors be immune to most types of noise, their memory ought to be enhanced by it. Researchers calculate that high frequency noise has little effect on memristance because the device cannot respond quickly enough to the changes that this noise produces. Low frequency noise also has little effect because it produces changes that …
It seems likely that the National Security Agency is spending about ten times more money and using a generator that is ten times larger to bring an exaFLOP supercomputer into existence 4-5 years earlier than a 2019/2020 expectation. $896 million and 60 megawatts instead of $100 million and 6 megawatts. A similar increase in budget …
The ASCI Red supercomputer first broke the teraFLOPS barrier in December 1996. On May 25, 2008, an American military supercomputer built by IBM, named ‘Roadrunner’, reached the computing milestone of one PetaFLOP by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second The budget was $100 million. A 20 PetaFLOP supercomputer is being completed in 2012 …