Dual-core chips power tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but quad-core tablets are likely to be next Image: Samsung Nvidia reportedly will ship the quadcore Tegra 3 in August. Motorola is rumored to be among the first to ship a Tegra 3 tablet. Some of the Samsung Galaxy tablets use the Tegra 2 …
Variation in faces as they age and with accessories. Brazilian police will use futuristic ‘Robocop-style’ glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify and root out troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup. A small camera fitted to the glasses can capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing …
ASU researchers have expanded on the capabilities of DNA origami to construct arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes, mimicking those often found in nature. The research is featured in the April 15 edition of the journal Science. Photo courtesy of Science. Figure 1 a and b display schematics for 2D nanoforms with accompanying AFM images of …
The IEA’s Monthly Electricity Statistics provides timely electricity production and trade data for all member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Japan will clearly lose about 6-8 TWH of nuclear electricity and electricity from other sources starting in March (half of the month) and then in April. For the first two …
Two gas clouds (one red and one blue), each a million times thinner than air, are seen to completely repel each other under the influence of strong, quantum-mechanical interactions. Such gas clouds can model matter under extreme conditions, such as neutron stars or the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe. Image: Martin Zwierlein Clouds of …
bloomberg – President Barack Obama, presenting his second plan in as many months to reduce the nation’s long- term debt today, is vowing to cut $4 trillion in cumulative deficits within 12 years with $3 in spending cuts and interest savings for every $1 in tax increases, according to two congressional aides familiar with the …
1. The Register UK – The total non-story of the Fukushima nuclear powerplant “disaster” – which has seen and will see no deaths or measurable health consequences for anyone anywhere – has received a shot in the arm today with the news that Japanese authorities have upgraded the incident to a Level 7 on the …
4-point conductivity measurement of the new transparent conducting film developed by prof. Cor Koning (left) and prof. Paul van der Schoot (right). The black pot contains a dispersion of carbon nanotubes in water, and the white pot contains the conducting latex. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke. A replacement material for indium tin oxide has been developed …
EETimes – The MEMS market this year for consumer electronics and mobile handsets will grow by 157.4 percent according to a report by IHS iSuppli market research firm. Revenue this year for new CE and mobile MEMS devices will reach $457.3 million, up by more than a factor of 2.5 from $177.6 million in 2010. …
An investigational combination of drugs already approved to treat obesity, migraine and epilepsy produced up to a 10 percent weight loss in obese individuals participating in a one-year clinical trial, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center Appearing online in The Lancet, the study found that treatment with the controlled-release combination therapy consisting of …
Scientists at the ISIS laboratory carrying out neutron scattering experiments on the effect of amphotericin on liposomes Scientists are making progress in their quest to find an improved antibiotic for a strain of meningitis that results in over half a million deaths a year worldwide. The fungal disease Cryptococcal Meningitis is especially rife in AIDS …