Japan Makes a Microwave-Powered Rocket Fly Without Fuel

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Japanese researchers demonstrated launching a 126 gram rocket powered by a Gyrotron – essentially a maser – at the Naka Fusion Institute of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Using this beam, the scientists were able to send pulses of microwave energy into the bottom of their …

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A combinatorial approach to speed discovery of metamaterials

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Combinatorial library, meta-molecules and resonant modes. (a) Schematic of a combinatorial metamaterial library. (b) Schematic of the metamaterial unit cell. (c) and (d) show scanning electron micrographs of metamaterial unit cells of size s = 500 nm with small and large gap position asymmetries, = 1/7 …

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Selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) proving to be an effective yet safe steroid

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook       Computer Software GTx, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTXI) announced in June 2010 that Ostarine™ (GTx-024, formerly MK-2866) increased lean body mass and leg press strength in a head to head study evaluating Ostarine and another selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), MK-3984, in postmenopausal women. This was the third Ostarine clinical study that …

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Concord Coalitions August 2010 Plausible Budget Baseline shows $15.2 trillion in Federal Deficits from 2010-2020

The Concord Baseline makes some key assumption changes to the CBO baseline. CBO is required to assume that congressional appropriations continue increasing only at the rate of inflation for the 10 year baseline. They also extend emergency supplemental at their “current” level plus inflation over the duration of the baseline. For tax legislation, they assume …

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Rice University and Privatran silicon oxide circuits are memristors

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Memristors made from pure silicon could enable resistive random access memory (ReRAM) that are simpler and cheaper to manufacture than Hewlett-Packard Co.’s titanium-based formulation, according to researchers at Rice University. In collaboration with fabless chip design house PrivaTran Inc. the team demonstrated a proof-of-concept ReRAM that …

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Arctic Estimated to have 160 billion barrels of oil and 1.67 trillion cubic feet of natural gas

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A study from 2009 estimates Arctic oil reserves to be 160 billion barrels of oil. Most of the reserves are in shallow waters — less than 500 meters (about 1/3rd of a mile) — making extraction relatively easy. Previous US geological surveys indicates that there was …

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White LED lights with 135 Lumens per Watt About Ten Times Better than Incandescent

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Previously white LEDs had a max of about 60 lumens per watt but the new White LEDs have 135 lumens per watt and match the best lighting alternatives The new LED can replace traditional fluorescent bulbs for all general lighting applications, and also be used for …

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Making Intense Attosecond Laser Pulses using a Conventional Femtosecond laser system

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A new concept opens the door to creating an intense isolated attosecond pulse using a conventional femtosecond laser system. Physical Review Letters – Infrared Two-Color Multicycle Laser Field Synthesis for Generating an Intense Attosecond Pulse We propose and demonstrate the generation of a continuum high-order harmonic …

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MIT Seaswarm Oil Absorbing Robot

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=17555522&postID=9221569040176362595 MIT has created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ocean to collect surface oil and process it on site. The system, called Seaswarm, is a fleet of vehicles that may make cleaning up future oil spills both less expensive and …

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A new highly compact, ultra-sensitive quantum gravimeter device

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Scientists have developed a novel design for a highly compact, ultra-sensitive quantum device to measure subtle changes in gravity over very short time or distance scales.* Tools of this sort – called atom interferometers (AIs) – are now used to search for natural resources beneath the …

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