New nanoscale metamaterials for future ultra-high-speed computing
Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have discovered novel nanoscale "metamaterials" which could serve as future ultra-high-speed computing units.The new optical materials could serve as the nuts and...
View ArticleChina will spend $370 billion building nuclear reactors over the next decade
China approved two reactors this month as it vowed to cut coal use to meet terms of a carbon-emissions agreement reached in November between President Xi Jinping and U.S. counterpart Barack Obama....
View ArticleCosts of China's air pollution and cost to greatly reduce the problem
The cost of air pollution in China has been estimated at 6.5 percent of GDP. Applying that figure to China’s GDP of $8,227 trillion dollars in 2012, the year on which we base much of our analysis,...
View ArticleGermany, France, Italy and UK will join China's Asian Infrastructure...
All it took was $50 billion and the possible trillions to follow to get participation from the main European allies of the United States. China has a large economy and $4 trillion in reserves. In the...
View ArticleZaptec Plasma lightning pulses could reduce space mining infrastructure by...
Shackleton Energy Company (SEC) and Zaptec sign a Memorandum of Understanding to explore how technologies developed by Zaptec for the oil and gas industry can be utilised in lunar mining.SEC is...
View ArticleTechnical details on Zaptec Plasma Drill which could drill 2000 meters down...
Zaptec has a new plasma drilling technology which could achieve practical, affordable, and reliable deep drilling on the Moon, asteroids, Mars, and its moons. The drilling system comprises a freely...
View ArticleZaptec can adaptively charge electric cars three times faster
Zaptec AS has developed the Zap Charger System which is a smaller, better, safer and faster alternative for charging an electric car in your home. The adaptive charging is smart enough to increase the...
View ArticleRethink Robotics has new one arm bot Sawyer that is smaller, faster and more...
Rethink Robotics' new robot arm, Sawyer, is a high performance robot designed for machine tending and other precise application. Hundreds of Baxter robots have been sold. Sawyer has pre-sales in the...
View ArticleIt was foolish for the USA to ask Allied Countries to Walk away from tens of...
Close allies of the USA such as Australia and South Korea have refrained from joining the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under U.S. pressure. They actually have been “disadvantaged” by...
View ArticleDyson Spheres and Swarms around White Dwarfs avoid two out of three major...
A Dyson Sphere is a hypothetical structure that an advanced civilization might build around a star to intercept all of the star’s light for its energy needs. One usually thinks of it as a spherical...
View ArticlePossible non liquid water based biology that could exist in places like Titan
The lipid bilayer membrane, which is the foundation of life on Earth, is not viable outside of biology based on liquid water. This fact has caused astronomers who seek conditions suitable for life to...
View ArticleFirst Japanese reactor out of fifteen has technical regulatory approval for...
The first japanese reactor slated for restart has gained technical approval, while two further older reactors were announced for retirement rather than being put through the restart process.The older...
View ArticleProgress towards error correction in quantum computers
The Google and UCSB researchers showed they could program groups of qubits—devices that represent information using fragile quantum physics—to detect certain kinds of error, and to prevent those errors...
View ArticleHybrid gas electric drone has 13 times the range of a battery electric drone
Top Flight Technologies is the first company to successfully demonstrate true serial hybrid power integration into multi-rotors at industry disruptive price points. Our UAVs have a demonstrated world...
View ArticleGeneral Atomics and US Research Labs solve a heat burst problem with nuclear...
Researchers from General Atomics and the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a major breakthrough in understanding how potentially damaging heat bursts inside...
View ArticleCarbon 3D has True game changing 3D printing and not just 2D repeated. 100...
3D printing has struggled to deliver on its promise to transform manufacturing. Prints take forever, parts are mechanically weak, and material choices are far too limited. That’s because current 3D...
View ArticleSoft Power Victory for China over USA as Australia and South Korea near...
Australia said on Friday there was a lot of merit in the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) while Japan's finance minister signalled cautious approval of the institution that the...
View ArticleExoplanets are in the habitable zone around most stars
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in our galaxy, the Milky Way, using the Kepler satellite and many of them have multiple planets orbiting the host star. By analysing these planetary...
View ArticleTesla is a drivable computer that will get software update for autopilot...
Most cars don't improve over time. By contrast, Model S gets faster, smarter, and better as time passes. With Tesla's regular over-the-air software updates, Model S actually improves while you sleep....
View ArticleChina can sustain 5-7% GDP growth with structural reform
After three decades of extraordinary economic development, China is shifting to a slower and more sustainable growth path. Further reforms are now needed to ensure that future growth is resilient,...
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