China has no overseas military bases. The United States has about 700 bases overseas with about 280,000 personnel at those bases. Russia has bases in 12 countries with about 30,000 personnel. Britain has about 8000 personnel in 6 countries. France also has bases in 5 countries with 7000 personnel. The Commonwealth of over 50 nations …
Here is progress report on DARPAs work to achieve all seeing multicameras at the physical limit of space and time resolution. They are achieving vision 30 to 50 times beyond the limit of human vision. They have a plan and research paper on achieving petapixel imaging which would be one million times beyond human vision. …
New resilient, ultraslippery glass could lead to self-cleaning, scratch-resistant windows, lenses, and solar panels. A new transparent, bioinspired coating makes ordinary glass tough, self-cleaning and incredibly slippery, was made by a team from Harvard University. The new coating could be used to create durable, scratch-resistant lenses for eyeglasses, self-cleaning windows, improved solar panels and new …
Monash researchers have developed a completely new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors (SC) with the energy density of lead batteries, making them viable for widespread use in renewable energy storage, portable electronics and electric vehicles. The energy density of 60 Watt-hours per litre – comparable to lead-acid batteries and around 12 times higher than commercially …
Harvard researchers have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human and a rat. The interface allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is computer mediated telepathy and remote control of another body from someone elses brain. The human BCI has an accuracy of 94%, and that it generally takes around …
Bain forecasted eight Trillion-Dollar Growth Trends to 2020. (44 page pdf) Macro trend: The next billion consumers. The rising wealth of emerging economies will continue to bring a broader range of consumption goods to huge numbers of new consumers. More of them will cross the critical annual household income threshold of $5,000, planting them in …
The greatest damage to the Fukushima complex, and the greatest release of radiation, may have been caused by explosions of hydrogen gas that built up inside some of the reactors. That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or …
TCL (The Creative Life), the third largest TV brand in the world, announced their fall product line-up for the US headlined by the 50″ edge-lit LED 4K Ultra HD TV launching in September aggressively priced at $999 MSRP. 50″ Edge LED 4K Ultra HD TV Launching in September, TCL’s 50″ LED Ultra HD TV features …
1. A new technology developed at MIT and the Broad Institute that can rapidly start or halt the expression of any gene of interest simply by shining light on the cells. The work is based on a technique known as optogenetics, which uses proteins that change their function in response to light. In this case, …
There was a debate between PZ Myers, David Brin, Eliezer Yudkowski and Eneasz Brodski about immortality. Eliezer brought up the point about different levels of immortality and had 10,000 years as a lower bound of immortality. Many of the complaints from PZ Myer and David Brin were concerns about societal effects that might accompany the …
Flight tests of an engine for the UK Skylon spaceplane are expected by 2020 and a prototype engine is expected by 2017. Two Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engines (SABRE) will power the Skylon space plane — a privately funded, single-stage-to-orbit concept vehicle that is 276 feet (84 meters) long. At take-off, the plane will weigh about …