The National Institute for Materials Science succeeded in realizing superconductivity in fullerene nanowhiskers, which are a nanosized carbon material that is lightweight and has a fine fibrous shape. This is a giant step toward the birth of lightweight, flexible superconducting materials. The National Institute for Materials Science succeeded in realizing superconductivity in fullerene nanowhiskers, which …
NY Times – Thomas Friedman notices no one running for president (or who is president) is pushing an aggressive plan for gigabit per second or faster internet for cities with top universities. The best of these [innovation] ecosystems will be cities and towns that combine a university, an educated populace, a dynamic business community and …
A pocket-sized device checks blood sugar levels through the skin of people with diabetes — no pinprick or blood sample needed. This is an example of new medical imaging technology that’s giving doctors and scientists noninvasive views into the body to diagnose and study diseases. Strategies Unlimited projects that the optical molecular imaging market will …
Tau Zero founder Marc Millis has a future history with a focus on space development over the next forty years at Centauri Dreams Marc Millis also headed the NASA breakthrough physics program. By 2015: Virgin Galactic has flown dozens of tourists into low earth orbit. The Google Lunar X-Prize will have been won and a …
ColdFusionnow – Rossi claims that distribution to the public of household energy catalyzer units is expected to begin “in autumn of 2012” adding that “We are in talks with Home Depot for the diffusion distribution”. “We have already started the sales of the industrial plants of 1MW, but now focusing on the household, we have …
Arxiv – Probing Loop Quantum Gravity with Evaporating Black Holes (5 pages) Researchers have used algorithms to show that primordial black holes are expected to reveal two distinct loop quantum gravity signatures, while larger black holes are expected to reveal one distinct signature. One of the biggest challenges will be simply detecting evaporating black holes. …
Worldwide new vehicle sales in 2012 are expected to rise 6.7 percent over 2011 volumes to 77.7 million vehicles, according to Polk, a leading global automotive market intelligence firm. China is expected to have a 16 percent increase in new car sales over 2011. If the Polk forecasts are correct the world is on track …
Toshiba Corp says it has developed a revolutionary new technology designed to decontaminate radioactive soil from the area surrounding the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The technology was originally designed to purify radioactive water at the nuclear power plant, but its developers say it also removes 97% of cesium from radioactive soil. Toshiba said …
1. Japan has been developing a virus that could track down the source of a cyber attack and neutralise its programme. The weapon is the culmination of a 179 million yen (USD 2.3 million) three-year project entrusted by the government to technology maker Fujitsu Ltd to develop a virus and equipment to monitor and analyse …
The Economist magazine forecasts that China economy at market rates will pass the US economy in 2018 They also predict 2020 for China stock markets to exceed the valuation of US stock markets 2023 for China consumer spending to pass the US 2025 for China defense spending to pass the US Nextbigfuture has been predicting …
Dwave quantum computers at 512 qubits should run some algorithms that achieve a speed advantage I’m some cases. However, there are a lot of supercomputers and a petaflop scale machine could come down to $10 million prices in the next year. The main utility of the quantum computers will be to run unique quantum algorithms …