Arxiv – Spontaneous electromagnetic superconductivity of vacuum in strong magnetic fi eld: an evidence from the Nambu{Jona-Lasinio model The required magnetic field dwarfs even the most magnetic things in the universe today – neutron stars called magnetars, which boast fields of up to 10^11 Tesla. Using an extended Nambu{Jona-Lasinio model as a low energy e …
There are some people who are saying that the Hiroshima long term radiation study has flaws in it They referred to a 16 pager that claims issues with the study. The counter references are mostly not in any peer reviewed journals. So if the claim of improper cohorts has some validity there is still the …
UK Register – Russia, the US and other nations are to discuss cooperation on building a nuclear-powered spacecraft, according to the head of Roscosmos – the Russian space agency. Anatoly Perminov, Roscosmos chief, tells state-owned newswire RIA Novosti that nuclear spacecraft plans are to be discussed with NASA on April 15. Perminov added that “countries …
Richard Branson has unveiled a Hawkes submarine that will go the bottom of 5 oceans. The company believes that it will set as many as 30 world records with each dive being the world’s first solo dive to the bottom of the five deepest trenches in the world. Branson also said he plans to create …
The Union of Concerned Scientists position on Nuclear Power and Global warming has the following problems To address global warming, we need a profound transformation of the ways in which we generate and consume energy. The urgency of this situation demands that we be willing to consider all possible options for coping with climate change. …
Chemists at UC San Diego have produced the first high resolution structure of a nano-scale square made from ribonucleic acid, or RNA. The structure was published in a paper in this week’s early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a team of chemists headed by Thomas Hermann, an …
According to a Lancet Study in 2007, compared with nuclear power, coal is responsible for five times as many worker deaths from accidents, 470 times as many deaths due to air pollution among members of the public, and more than 1,000 times as many cases of serious illness, according to a study of the health …
Nucnet – Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) says it has identified a source of a leak of highly radioactive water leaking into the ocean from unit 2 at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant. The power company said today (Saturday) that water has been seeping from a 20 cm crack in the wall of a two-metre-deep pit …
1. Researchers have shown that cells can grow and function on a carpet of small upright needles made of semiconductors – so-called nanowires. “We have developed a new method that makes it possible for us to see how the cells function when they are impaled on carpets of nanowires. We think that the technique has …
All predictions came true today. The Technological singularity, Mayan end of the world and judgement day all arrived. A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid that it makes the future after the singularity qualitatively different and harder to predict. The Terminator judgement day preceded the Mayan doomsday. Mayan’s …
The Israeli Shefela oil shale is on land. The natural gas is under the water Harold Vinegar, the former chief scientists of Royal Dutch Shell, has devised an ambitious plan that would, if successful, turn Israel into one of the world’s leading oil producers. Now chief scientist for Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI), Vinegar maintains that …