IEDM – 10 and 15 nanometer technology

1. EETimes – IMEC reports 10-nm RRAM cell European research institute IMEC has reported a Resistive RAM (RRAM) memory cell that measures 10-nm by 10-nm at the International Electron Devices Meeting, which took place Dec. 5 to 7 in Washington DC. The organization claims this is the smallest such cell and that it shows the …

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Splitting hairs on definitions to deny progress and greater potential for exponential progress

Alex Knapp at Forbes talks about the example of the limits of airplane speed as an example of real world limits to exponential progress. The speed of rockets continue the speed curve slightly. What made us really fall of the speed of vehicle improvement curve was abandoning the development of nuclear pulse propulsion. Nuclear bombs …

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Video of Rossi Claiming Breakthrough with Energy Catalyzer test of October 28, 2011

Some discussion at the vortex forum about the October 28 Rossi Energy Catalyzer test If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …

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Nitrogen-vacancy Diamond research towards quantum computing

1. University of Buffalo – New Knowledge About “Flawed” Diamonds Could Speed The Development of Diamond-Based Quantum Computers Diamonds with defects known as “nitrogen-vacancy centers” can be used in applications including quantum information processing. * One problem preventing scientists from fully understanding these defective diamonds is that at the point of defect, the high-symmetry energy …

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Carnival of Space 218

The Carnival of Space 218 is up at AstroSwanny Universe Today – Last week, scientists announced findings based on data from the SPICAM spectrometer onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. The findings reported in Science by Maltagliati et al (2011), reveal that the Martian atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapor. According to the research team, the …

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Greece labour unions representing half the workforce vow to oppose austerity measures

Greece’s two biggest labour unions will jointly stage 24-hour strikes on Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 to protest new austerity measures which the government is expected to agree with its international lenders to meet its fiscal targets. “We will fight to the end, to topple this policy,” Ilias Iliopoulos, general Secretary of public sector union …

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Scientists take first step towards creating ‘inorganic life’

Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have taken their first tentative steps towards creating ‘life’ from inorganic chemicals potentially defining the new area of ‘inorganic biology’. Researchers have demonstrated a new way of making inorganic-chemical-cells or iCHELLS. Prof Cronin said: “All life on earth is based on organic biology (i.e. carbon in the …

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Possible EU Graphene Megaproject

Graphene Science and technology for ICT and beyond received 1.5 million euros ($2.1 million) for 2011-2012, and late 2012 could be selected as a flagship project, to be funded at about €1 billion each over a decade. Graphene, a new substance from the world of atomic and molecular scale manipulation of matter, could be the …

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Portable, super-high-resolution 3-D imaging for micrometer resolution using a soda can size sensor

Not only do the images produced by GelSight, a new, portable imaging system from researchers in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, have a resolution that previously required expensive laboratory equipment, but they’re 3-D, too. Here, GelSight images particles of ink spelling the word ‘ink’ on a piece of paper. Image: Micah Kimo Johnson …

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KLD Energy and electric motors with nano-crystalline cores are making progress

NBF wrote about KLD Energy and their electric motor with a nano-crystalline core back in 2009. KLD Energy Technologies Inc. signed a deal to supply motor systems for a new line of electric scooters in Malaysia. KLD expects to manufacture at least 40,000 kits in the first year. The scooters are being developed as part …

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