P doped Graphane Calculations Predict Will Superconduct at 90K

Graphane is graphene with a lot of hydrogen. Graphene is two dimensional sheet of carbon. Graphane was made for the first time only last year at the University of Manchester. P-doped diamond nanowires might have similar properties. Copper oxides superconduct in an entirely different way to conventional BCS superconductors (after Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer, who …

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Intel Research on 11 nanometer and smaller

EEtimes reports on an Intel Facility in Ireland that is researching on pushing lithography and self assembly for chip manufacturing on the 11 nanometer and smaller nodes. Intel has an advanced research facility in Ireland that is looking 5-10 years out. Much of Intel’s nanotech research is done with the Center for Research on Adaptive …

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Human running speeds of 35 to 40 mph may be biologically possible

Peter Weyand and colleagues have published a paper which details how human running speeds of 35-40 mph may be biologically possible Peter Weyands estimate of the fastest speed a human can run has been covered here before (he had indicated that 45 mph is possible for a modified human shaped runner). The newly published evidence …

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Virtual Microfluidics

A new method of moving tiny particles using magnetic polymer beads and magnetic fields could find uses in microchips and in medicine. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, the Merton C. Flemings Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, his doctoral student Charles Sing, and researchers at Boston University and in Germany, devised a system that uses so-called superparamagnetic …

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Carbon nanotubes Costs, Strength and Building things

When people think about building things with carbon nanotubes or with carbon nanotube enhanced materials they need to know that there is not much production of carbon nanotubes. There is less than 1000 tons/year of carbon nanotubes being produced and most of that is in a form that is like an unsorted powder. The material …

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Blue Brain Videos and Update on Brain Emulation

It took less than two years for the Blue Brain supercomputer to accurately simulate a neocortical column, which is a tiny slice of brain containing approximately 10,000 neurons, with about 30 million synaptic connections between them. The Blue Brain team is now developing a model of a complete rat brain—that should be done in 2010—Markram …

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Quantum Computer Algorithms for Exponentially Speeding the Solution of Linear and Differential Equations

In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, however, MIT researchers present a new algorithm that could exponential speed solutions of systems of linear equations — whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modeling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications. Researchers at …

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NASA also Found Mars has More Water Than Previously Believed

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took these images of a fresh, 6-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) crater on Mars on Oct. 18, 2008, (left) and on Jan. 14, 2009. Each image is 35 meters (115 feet) across. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding …

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Mach Effect 4: More Mach Effect Answers

The first nextbigfuture article on mach’s effect propulsion which has an interview with Paul March A second article with answers to various questions in comments on mach effect propulsion. Mach Effect investigation could be a path to the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Here is links to abot 20 hours of Stanford lectures …

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Anti-poverty Devices: Smart-phone microscope with Fluorescent Imaging and a Combo Stove/Refridgerator/Electricity Generator

1. It’s a cooker, a fridge and a generator in one — and it could have a huge impact on the lives of people in the world’s poorest communities. Two billion people use open fires as their primary cooking method. These fires have been found to be highly inefficient, with 93 per cent of the …

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House and Senate Climate Bills and Stimulus Bill Energy Impact

The last few months and the next few months are seeing a flurry of energy bills and energy impacting legislation. Stimulus Bill’s Energy ImpactThe stimulus bill (America Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009) ARRA allocated a total of $9.45 billion to weatherize and/or increase the energy efficiency of low-income housing and assist local governments in implementing …

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