Star Trek had pancake sized single cell organisms in the episode Operation: Annihilate Scientists have discovered a community of 4-inch amoebas living at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known part of the world’s oceans. The neural parasites of Deneva The real organisms are not a hive mind which each cell able to …
Kurzweilai – How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^-15 meter) scale. An atom is about 10^-10 m in size. The next smallest thing in nature is the nucleus, which is about 100,000 times smaller, i.e., 10^-15 m in size — a femtometer, or …
Founded in 1867, Voith employs almost 40 000 people, generates €5.2 billion in sales, operates in about 50 countries around the world and is today one of the biggest family-owned companies in Europe. According to Voith calculations, the SteamTrac, which is connected to one of the two engines, generates an additional input power of 24 …
Journal of the American Chemical Society – Boron–Boron σ-Bond Formation by Two-Electron Reduction of a H-Bridged Dimer of Monoborane Diborane(6) as a H-bridged dimer of monoborane can be converted cleanly by two-electron reduction into diborane(6) dianion, which is isoelectronic with ethane, through B–B σ-bond formation when each boron atom has a bulky ligand on it. …
Electrical engineers in Bochum have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers. The researchers make clever use of the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, called spin, to successfully break the previous speed barriers. The new spin lasers have the potential to achieve modulation frequencies of well above 100 GHz in future. This …
1. Wired UK – Cold Fusion: Future of physics or phoney? David Hambling reviews the Rossi energy catalyzer and past tests and the testing controversy. The E-Cat is beginning to be noticed by the mainstream media, with articles in Forbes and the US National Reviewonline edition. While few appear to have much faith in the …
Andrea Rossi reports on his blog that the 1 megawatt energy catalyzer test has started October 28th, 2011 [Rossi almost always posts everything in all caps, I will remove some of the caps] First information regarding the 1 MW Plant Test: We started regularly the test this morning. Everything is going well so far. The …
MIT Energy Initiative has a five-part series of articles that takes a broad view of the likely scalable energy candidates. The article on wind talked about the economics, the intermittent nature of wind power and prospects for scaling. The MIT article on nuclear power stated Nuclear power is often thought of as zero-emissions, Prinn points …
Purdue University – The merging of two technologies under development – plasmonics and nanophotonics – is promising the emergence of new “quantum information systems” far more powerful than today’s computers. It would be the grab bag of future keywords and phrases Hyperbolic metamaterials integrated with nitrogen vacancies in diamond plasmonics nanophotonics quantum information systems quantum …
1. The United States will likely suffer the loss of its triple-A credit rating from another major rating agency by the end of this year due to concerns over the deficit, Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts. “The credit rating agencies have strongly suggested that further rating cuts are likely if Congress does not come …
1. Universe Today – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is now one more step closer to sending astronauts to orbit. The commercial space firm announced today that it has completed a successful review of the company’s launch abort system (LAS). SpaceX’s LAS, dubbed “DragonRider” is designed differently than abort systems that have been used in the …