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 …
Arxiv – Unique prospects of graphene-based THz modulators The modulation depth of 2-D electron gas (2DEG) based THz modulators using AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures with metal gates is inherently limited to less than 30%. The metal gate not only attenuates the THz signal (over 90%) but also severely degrades the modulation depth. The metal losses can be …
Kansas-based Lario Logistics said it will open a 100,000 barrel-per-day crude-by-rail terminal in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale oil area this month, a move that will boost the region’s capacity to ship crude on railways by about 75 percent. North Dakota oil production has tripled in four years, reaching 380,000 bpd in June and reached 423,592 …
The electric solar wind space sail project in Finland is making progress. They have videos showing operating components. There will be a 10 m long test tether onboard the ESTCube-1 satellite, to be launched in 2012. There is an EU FP7 project (2011-2013) developing laboratory prototypes of key components of the E-sail. The project involves …
In the movie Minority report there people who are able to predict the future and prevent crime. Precrime is a system which punishes people with imprisonment for murders they would have committed, had they not been prevented. Singularity Hub – In July, 2011 the Santa Cruz Police Department began experimenting with an interesting bit of …
Julius Baer, the leading Swiss private banking group, today published its first ‛Julius Baer Wealth Report’, focusing on Asia. * The estimated 1.16 million HNWIs across Asia with wealth of USD 5.60 trillion in 2010 is forecast to more than double to 2.82 million with wealth to almost triple to USD 15.81 trillion by 2015. …
A study conducted among cyclists in Copenhagen, Denmark1 showed that it is the relative intensity and not the duration of cycling which is of most importance in relation to all-cause mortality and even more pronounced for coronary heart disease mortality. The study presented today at the ESC Congress 2011, concluded that men with fast intensity …
Depending on the age of asthmatic children, on their exposure to molds or dampness in their bedroom, and on the severity of their asthma, vitamin C has greater or smaller beneficial effect against asthma, according to a study published in the Clinical and Translational Allergy. 0.2 grams of vitamin C asthmatic children aged 7 to …
AI researchers have been speculating for decades that it might be possible one day to create substrate independent minds. In 1999 Ray Kurzweil published The Age of Spiritual Machines in which he predicted that minds would be uploaded to computers in the latter part of the 21st century. The subject of Artificial General Intelligence has …
ECat World – A reporter from XanthiPress, a Greek news site based in Xanthi, conducted an interview with Alexandros Xanthoulis, President of Defkalion Green Technologies The Greek interview is here through google translate At the first 2 weeks of August a core team of 12 scientists from the Xanthi area will start working, there will …
Beyond Silicon – Nanoscale Science and Technology at IBM Thomas N Theis Program Manager, New Devices and Architectures for Computing IBM Watson Research Center IBM and ETH opened the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotech Center (May 2011) Vibration isolation and temp control Three other facilities Research on new materials, processes, instrumentation, theory and computational modeling aimed …