Washington D.C. went live with the first link of a 100-gigabit network Wednesday. The new network, called the D.C. Community Access Network (DC-CAN), will provide links out to communities east of the Anacostia River, but the ultra-high-speed network will soon serve the entire District. However, the pricing for the service still looks expensive with 1 …
Vixra log – suggests that a signal for the Higgs boson has been seen at 125 GeV Not Even Wrong – This morning’s rumors are a 3.5 sigma 126 GeV excess at ATLAS in the ATLAS-only combination, and 2.5 sigma at 124 GeV for CMS. Heuer’s message to all CERN personnel says the December 13 …
A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill’s Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world’s smallest electronic circuits. It is formed by two wires separated by only about 150 atoms or 15 nanometers (nm). This discovery, published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, could have a …
Nanoletters – Superfast-Response and Ultrahigh-Power-Density Electromechanical Actuators Based on Hierarchal Carbon Nanotube Electrodes and Chitosan Here we report a novel single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) based bimorph electromechanical actuator, which consists of unique as-grown SWNT films as double electrode layers separated by a chitosan electrolyte layer consisting of an ionic liquid. By taking advantage of the …
Scalable Amounts of Liver and Pancreas Precursor” New Stem Cell Method Developed Increasing the available stem cells by 35 times or more will open the path to more regenerative medicine treatments using stem cells. Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique …
Japan is currently the only country with a focused solar power satellite plan. In fact, space power is one of the nine official goals of the Japanese space programme. The country’s space agency is planning to construct a solar power station in space and use it to beam energy down to earth using lasers by …
UK Guardian – Widely conflicting reports emerge of apparent explosion in the north-east of Isfahan near where nuclear facilities are located. Isfahan is home to Iran’s uranium conversion facility (UCF), which operates under IAEA surveillance. Iran’s main uranium enrichment facilities are situated in the city of Natanz to the north-east of Isfahan, where many of …
Technology Review – Researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, are developing nanomagnets that could someday strip potentially harmful substances from the blood. The technology might be used to treat people suffering from drug intoxication, bloodstream infections, and certain cancers. The project involves magnetized nanoparticles that are coated with carbon and studded with antibodies specific to the molecules …
UK Guardian – Christopher Busby, a visiting professor at the University of Ulster, is championing a series of expensive products and services which, he claims, will protect people in Japan from the effects of radiation. Among them are mineral supplements on sale for ￥5,800 (£48) a bottle, urine tests for radioactive contaminants for ￥98,000 (£808) …
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said he expects Tegra 3 quadcore tablets to plummet to $299 in just “a couple quarters.” The first Tegra 3 table Transformer Prime hasn’t even gone on sale yet, and when it does it’ll cost $500. HTC has revealed the HTC Quattro quad core tablet HC Quattro will be a 10.1-inch …
1. The Atlantic – Walmart and China have launched a bold experiment in consumer behavior and environmental stewardship: to set green standards for 20,000 suppliers making several hundred thousand items sold to billions of shoppers worldwide. With some 30,000 Chinese factories making things for Walmart, the company’s future was tied to China in the most …