Video shows Spacex did soft land the Falcon 9 first stage last week

Following last week’s successful launch of six ORBCOMM satellites, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage reentered Earth’s atmosphere and soft landed in the Atlantic Ocean. This test confirms that the Falcon 9 booster is able consistently to reenter from space at hypersonic velocity, restart main engines twice, deploy landing legs and touch down at near …

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Targeted improvements in more efficient agriculture can improve world agriculture productivity by over 40%

Feeding a growing human population without increasing stresses on Earth’s strained land and water resources may seem like an impossible challenge. But according to a new report by researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, focusing efforts to improve food systems on a few specific regions, crops and actions could make it …

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The New Black is Superblack Carbon Nanotube Vantablack that absorbs 99.965% of light

Sensitive electro-optical imaging and target-acquisition systems will achieve new levels of range and sensitivity performance thanks to a UK company’s breakthrough in developing a ‘super black’ material to be launched at the Farnborough International Air Show. Surrey NanoSystems’ Vantablack® is revolutionary in its ability to be applied to light-weight, temperature-sensitive structures such as aluminium whilst …

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South Korea High Speed Broadband part of enabling it to be the next Global Technological Hub

South Korea has become the world leader in patent activity, and information and communication technology. The country has the highest broadband penetration in the world at 97 percent and is a leader in broadband speed with an average peak connection of close to 50 megabits per second. Success in manufacturing and exporting cutting edge electronics …

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Smart Giant-sized lego bricks for industrial and infrastructure scale projects – Kite Bricks could revolutionalize construction

Kite Bricks is developing a revolutionary product that will change the way we build houses, buildings, bridges and sidewalks. From now on structures will be real thermal, much more stronger and very cheap & fast to build. Smart Brick is a revolutionary brick and the basis of a new construction system covered by issued and …

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Improved DNA Nanopores reading longer 4500 nucleotide sequences

A low-cost technology may make it possible to read long sequences of DNA far more quickly than current techniques. The research advances a technology, called nanopore DNA sequencing. If perfected it could someday be used to create handheld devices capable of quickly identifying DNA sequences from tissue samples and the environment, the University of Washington …

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Crossbar on the way to delivery terabyte on a chip nonvolatile 3D RRAM technology

Crossbar announced it had demonstrated pre-production 1 megabyte arrays using its patented 1TnR (1 transistor driving n resistive memory cells) non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM or ReRAM) for read/write operations. The company feels this is a major milestone toward commercializing terabyte-scale memory arrays on a postage-stamp-sized chip. * 1 Terabyte of storage on a single chip …

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Enablers and drivers for future superlarge 500 million person Metacities

President Xi Jinping has a signature project to link 130 million people across Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province into a single megalopolis, the so-called Jing-Jin-Ji region. Xi has held out the model as a template for China’s urbanisation in the future. For the project to work, he will need to align policy and interests that …

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After being wrong for over a decade there are renewed predictions that India’s GDP growth will pass China

India’s GDP growth is expected to rebound with improved prospects for reforms, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth should increase from 4.7% in 2013-14 to around 6% in 2014-15 and 7% in 2015-16. China is GDP Growth is expected to fall to around 7.3% this year and 7% next year. While a housing crunch could …

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A breakthrough flexible, energy-efficient hybrid circuit made from carbon nanotube could one day replace silicon in some commercial applications in 5-10 years

Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering describe how they have overcome a major issue in carbon nanotube technology by developing a flexible, energy-efficient hybrid circuit combining carbon nanotube thin film transistors with other thin film transistors. This hybrid could take the place of silicon as the traditional transistor material used in electronic chips, …

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