MIT Technology review has details of IBMs progress to develop racetrack memory Racetrack memory’s reliability is likely to depend on the materials used for the nanowires, and the design—which will be worked out as a prototype is developed. “It shouldn’t take too long,” Parkin says. “Maybe in two years we should have this prototype.” Racetrack …
Continental Resources, an oil production company with 22 drilling rigs in North Dakota, has led the industry in developing the Sanish/Three Forks formation and concluded it is a separate oil formation, rather than one that siphons off the Bakken. Company owner Harold Hamm said he believes the Bakken and Sanish/Three Forks formations taken together could …
By Joseph Friedlander Let us suppose that we have an electrical launch facility on the Moon to export mass to the L4-L5 points in co-orbit with the Moon around the Earth. My caption– the Sun is in the middle of the picture, the Earth is at the 3 o’clock position relative to the Sun, the …
Internet News has gathered some technology predictions for 2011 * 4G networks are going to give developers the ability to create new and better services so, for example, voice recognition on your phone will just happen in like a tenth of a second versus the three seconds it takes using Dragon Dictate on mobile device. …
The Avengers movie comes out in Mat 2012 and the information below could be a spoiler for that movie. Possible spoiler warning Aint it cool news reports that Albuquerque Journal says that the Avengers movie will involve the Kree and the Skrulls. Comic book fans will note that the Kree/Skrull War was an epic story …
Large-scale cultivation of sea lettuce can help reduce acidification of the oceans. And help solve the global food supply problem to boot. Ocean acidification is an effect of having too much carbon dioxide. The other effect of too much carbon dioxide is global warming. Growing 180,000 square kilometres of sea lettuce (ulva lactuca) could be …
Angstron Materials has invented a graphene-based supercapacitor with ultra high energy density, a feature that permits storage of a significant amount of energy This development has pushed the specific energy density of an electrical double-layer (EDL) graphene-enabled supercapacitor to an unprecedented level of nearly 90 watt hours per kilogram at room temperature and a level …
(Angewandte Chemie International Edition) The Largest Synthetic Structure with Molecular Precision: Towards a (macro) Molecular Object Pushing the limits: A 200 million dalton structurally defined, linear macromolecule (PG5) has a molar mass, cross-section dimension, and cylindrical shape that are comparable to some naturally occurring objects, such as amyloid fibrils or certain plant viruses. The macromolecule …
Thijs van Oudheusden has developed a machine that in many respects can compete with billion-euro X-Ray free electron laser facilities, based on ideas from his co supervisor Jom Luiten. The essence of their ‘poor man’s X-FEL’ is that it uses electrons instead of X-rays. “Why convert electrons into X-rays if you can use the electrons …
Sergey Kiriyenko, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, talked about plans to expand cooperation with India in the nuclear energy sector. We have completed all construction activities at the first Kudankulam generating unit and have begun pre-commissioning tests. We believe we will be able to launch hot functional testing in early January and …
Cornell researchers have discovered that carbon nanotubes can transmit and receive light at the nanoscale. Carbon nanotubes, cylindrical rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms, might one day make ideal optical scattering wires — tiny, mostly invisible antennae with the ability to control, absorb and emit certain colors of light at the nanoscale. The researchers used the …