On Arvix there is a possible breakthrough nanophotonic research paper from the University of Southampton: The light-well: A tuneable free-electron light source on a chip. H/T MIT Technology Review The passage of a free-electron beam through a nano-hole in a periodically layered metal/dielectric structure creates a new type of tuneable, nanoscale radiation source – a …
Key milestones have been passed after three years of planning, machining, wiring and welding, in the progress of the Advanced Graphite Capsule project. This six-phase project will test over 2,000 different samples of graphite in INL’s Advanced Test Reactor facility over a roughly 10-year period that will last until 2020. Today, nuclear experts envision two …
Electron microscope image of two superconducting thin films that meet at a 6 degree tilt boundary (the dark line running through the image). The numerous smaller lines that intersect the grain boundary at 90 degrees are the individual crystalline layers. The connection between the two films shows distortions in the superconducting layers, which severely limits …
The photograph shows an experiment in which dense deuterium is irradiated by a laser. The white glow in the container in the centre of the photograph is from deuterium. A material that is a hundred thousand times heavier than water and more dense than the core of the Sun is being produced at the University …
EMC2 Fusion is the company that Dr. Richard Nebel is leading to develop IEC/Bussard Fusion. This interview was conducted by Sander Olson as an exclusive for Nextbigfuture. This site has many articles on IEC fusion and other nuclear fusion efforts. Question: Could you provide an overview of your nuclear fusion process? Answer: Our machine is …
A method which eliminates the radiation damage problem is a Two-Step Photon Intermediate Direct Energy Conversion (PIDEC) method that uses the efficient generation of photons from the interaction of particulate radiation with fluorescer media. The photons are then transported to wide band-gap photovoltaic cells where electrical current is generated. PIDEC holds the promise of 40% …
Carnival of space 96 is up at Astroengine. This site provided an article on the quantum fractal theory of space time. Planetary society blog looks at water on Mars. 21st Century Waves feels we are close to space colonization starting in 2015. Astroblogger considers asteroids at the L4 and L5 points Greg Fish, a popular …
Biofeedback Method to Put Oneself into Memorize ModeWhen the medial temporal lobe, a region of the brain associated with memory formation, is active you will be able memorize what is happening and when it is not then you will forget it. An iPhone could be connected to a magnetoencephalograph to read theta waves and biofeedback …
Science Fiction had the Armored Personnel Units of the Matrix. Reality has the Auto Assault-12 (AA-12) shotgun (originally designed and known as the Atchisson Assault Shotgun). The AA-12 can fire in semi-automatic or fully automatic mode at 300 rounds per minute (5 every second) and has a magazine of 32 rounds. The AA-12 can fire …
A new research paper evaluates material extraction costs and supply constraints for 23 promising semiconducting materials that could be used to afford ably scale solar power to terawatt levels. Iron pyrite, copper sulphide and copper oxide were at the top of the list of potential silicon and thin film replacements, with iron pyrite – more …
Hartmut Neven of Google is mapping important machine learning problems to D-Wave’s flavor of Adiabatic Quantum Computer. Binary Classification is described at wikipedia Binary classification is the task of classifying the members of a given set of objects into two groups on the basis of whether they have some property or not. Some typical binary …