Shown in the Wasp Micro UAV. The assassinationbot is believed to be an armed version of the Wasp Micro UAV Wired’s Danger Room reports that the Air Force Research Laboratory has completed developing a Micro-Air Vehicle (MAV) with innovative seeker/tracking sensor algorithms that can engage maneuvering high-value targets. Special Forces already make extensive use of …
Ultradense Deuterium (21 page pdf) by Winterberg An attempt is made to explain the recently reported occurrence of ultradense deuterium as an isothermal transition of Rydberg matter into a high density phase by quantum mechanical exchange forces. It is conjectured that the transition is made possible by the formation of vortices in a Cooper pair …
Airlines reported lengthy delays on international flights to the U.S. over the weekend amid heightened security after Friday’s alleged terrorism incident on a trans-Atlantic flight, but domestic passengers were largely unaffected by the new measures. AMR Corp.’s American Airlines said passengers and their luggage were being subjected to an extra round of screening at many …
Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias looked at nuclear winter again. Robin looks at the Scientific American article that attempts to make the case that a regional nuclear war in India and Pakistan would be sufficient to trigger a nuclear winter. UPDATE : Nextbigfuture has an updated article describing why the nuclear winter theory is wrong. …
Advanced Materials : Engineering Strong Intergraphene Shear Resistance in Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Dramatic Tensile Improvements Strong intergraphene shear resistance is engineered in multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) by embedding the nanotubes into a compressive-stressing ceramic environment to exploit the exceptional strength of its inner graphene walls during tensile loading. A dramatic enhancement in the tensile …
University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use the unique capabilities of graphene “quilts” as heat conductors in high-power electronics. Most of the current research on graphene has focused on its electronic properties and graphene’s potential …
Some comments on Vasimr by Paul March on the Nasa Forum Vasimr has different quoted exhaust velocity ranges for different propellants – * argon has a limit of around 50,000 m/s * 300,000 m/s is possible with hydrogen. The 39 day mission to Mars using VASIMR propulsion takes 200 Megawatts total input power driving 4-to-8 …
1. Above is a piece of the 370 megapixel image of 500,000 galaxies. Phil Plait, the bad astronomer, discusses the huge image just released by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Deep Field #1, a ginormous mosaic of the night sky. It covers a solid square degree of sky — 5 times the area of the …
Google is researching Quantum Computer Algorithms using Dwave Systems Quantum Computers for a binary classifier of images At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS 2009), we show the progress we have made. We demonstrate a detector that has learned to spot cars by looking at example pictures. It was trained with adiabatic quantum optimization …
Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child’s brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the integrity of fibers that carry information from one part of the brain to another. They used a special type of MRI to look at …
Ames Laboratory research team discovers a new use for metamaterials that promises to eliminate mechanical friction in nanotechnology The groundbreaking research, conducted through mathematical simulations, revealed the possibility of a new class of materials able to exert a repulsive force when they are placed in extremely close proximity to each other. The repulsive force, which …