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One third of sun-like stars have earth sized planets in habitable zone based on most recent analysis of Kepler Data

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Arxiv – Terrestrial, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet Frequency from Kepler (27 pages) Data from Kepler’s first 136 days of operation are analyzed to determine the distribution of exoplanets with respect to radius, period, and host-star spectral type. The analysis is extrapolated to estimate the percentage of terrestrial, habitable-zone exoplanets. The Kepler census is assumed to be complete …

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Superpower Inc has updated information on their superconductors

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Recent Developments in 2G HTS Coil Technology (20 pages, Sept 19, 2011) Coated Conductors: From R and D to Manufacturing to Commercial Applications (Sept 19-23,2011, 49 pages) Coated Conductors: A completely different superconductor wire manufacturing approach • Coated conductors: HTS is produced by thin film vacuum deposition on a flexible nickel alloy substrate in a …

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Cities and Megacities of 2030, 2050 and 2100

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In 1800, just 3% of the world lived in urban areas. Today that figure has passed 50% and by 2050 it will likely reach 70%, with cities like New York, Mexico City, Moscow and Shanghai growing exponentially. The 2011 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative had a topic of the rapidly urbanizing world population …

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Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment at CERN

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Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early. “We tried to find all possible explanations for this,” said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration. Opera Collaboration website The OPERA particle detector may have spotted neutrinos traveling …

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Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits

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Arxiv – Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits (43 pages) This paper is more detail for an article from September 1st about the connection of a quantum processor with quantum memory. The von Neumann architecture for a classical computer comprises a central processing unit and a memory holding instructions and data. We …

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Nvidia Tegra 3 Kalel chip will have a fifth CPU core for lower power usage

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Nvidia – Variable SMP – A Multi-Core CPU Architecture for Low Power and High Performance (16 pages) Project Kal-El (Tegra 3) works with a new Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing technology, also known as vSMP. As NVIDIA notes today for the first time, vSMP includes a fifth CPU core called the “Companion” core that’s built using a …

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Scott Aaronson on free will, quantum mechanics and retrocausality

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Retrocausality has been a topic of interest for James Woodward (one of the main people working on Mach effect propulsion) and Jack Sarfatti Wikipedia -Retrocausality (also called retro-causation, retro-chronal causation, backward causation, and similar terms) is any of several hypothetical phenomena or processes that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause. Retrocausality …

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Nanowires are a step towards photonic chip

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Australian researchers have engineered one of the world’s smallest ever nanowires for the next generation of telecommunication technology, bringing them one step closer to the holy grail of optics – the creation of a ‘photonic chip’ which would lead to a faster, more sustainable internet. This is a significant step towards the realisation of the …

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FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator possible EU megaproject

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The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis-Relief System has been funded for What if global scale computing facilities were available that could analyse most of the data available in the world? What insights could scientists gain about the way society functions? What new laws of nature would be revealed? Could society discover a more sustainable way …

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Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

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The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11) was held on Google’s campus in Mountain View (Silicon Valley), California, in the first week of August 2011. There are many papers and abstracts and presentations that are available. HPlus Magazine has a summary Real-world Limits to Algorithmic Intelligence (11 pages) Recent theories of universal algorithmic intelligence, …

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Blood Vessels from your printer

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Researchers have been working at growing tissue and organs in the laboratory for a long time. These days, tissue engineering enables us to build up artificial tissue, although science still hasn’t been successful with larger organs. Now, researchers at Fraunhofer are applying new techniques and materials to come up with artificial blood vessels in their …

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