New anti-air pollutions bills that are going before congress. The Clean Air Planning Act would save thousands of lives each year. For instance, EPA estimated that the previous bill, when compared to “Clear Skies” in 2010, would mean 10,000 fewer premature deaths, 15,000 fewer trips to the emergency room and 1 million fewer work days …
Nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, generates a true-to-life fingerprint – a unique pattern indicating the presence of specific molecules – for a research sample that is being analyzed. It has been found that a higher power magnet (21.1 tesla) increases the picture’s brightness by a factor of about 10 relative to low-field images (14.1 tesla) …
Scientists believe that 10,000 idle PS3s can deliver over a petaflop This is four times more than IBM’s BlueGene/L System, which cranks out 280.6 trillion calculations per second. If Sony could actually sell the PS3 with as much success as the PS2, then 100 million units could provide over an exaflop of computing power. The …
Although these are some words of support, the issues will not be decided until next year when Dwave’s larger systems show that they provide speedup over classical systems for commercially interesting problems. NASA provides some validation of Dwave Systems quantum computer claims The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday that it built a …
Four 71-inch mirrors gathering light for Pan-STARRS would each be hooked up to what would be the four largest digital cameras ever built. The system would be able to survey the entire sky once a week, and would be able to detect asteroids as small as 1,000 feet across. They face opposition from environmentalists who …
I want to create a new term, media equivalence, for debates about the problems of civilization, technology and society. We currently have the term moral equivalence From wikipedia, moral equivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to characterize in a negative way the claim that there can be no moral or ethical hierarchy …
Chris Pheonix has a though experiment of taking an FPGA chip back in time to 1957. He indicates the problems that would encountered trying to get the engineers of the day to accept that the FPGA could work and to believe in it enough to invest the time, money and effort into making the connections …
How will NNI style nanotech or later nanotech be used to help the poor ? “Nanotechnology has the potential to generate enormous health benefits for the more than five billion people living in the developing world,” according to Dr. Peter A. Singer, senior scientist at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health and Professor of Medicine …
This paper is the Abrahms-Lloyd algorithm which is at the heart of most quantum simulations algorithms Being able to implement this would massively speed up molecular modeling for the development of molecular manufacturing. Geordie Rose, CTO of Dwave indicates, In contrast to factoring, quantum simulation is both extremely commercially valuable (a large fraction of the …
Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. The breakthrough, announced today in Kansas City, Mo., is a significant step forward in …
This summer, scientists are planning to see whether the powdered pig extract can help injured soldiers regrow parts of their fingers. And a large federally funded project is trying to unlock the secrets of how some animals regrow body parts so well, with hopes of applying the the lessons to humans. Up to about age …