Reversibly, repeatedly foldable glass with displays and other electronics
Reversibly, repeatedly foldable electronics and displays have been enabled by employing engineered glass or plastics substrates, where folding deformation has been localized in thinned parts only. This...
View ArticleBizarre nuclear fusion reactor in 5 years headline from Treehugger but...
Treehugger has a headline "Nuclear fusion reactor in just five years?"The MIT design depends on getting 23 tesla superconducting magnets (currently at lab scale) scaled up for projects of this scale...
View ArticleReprogrammable optic chip has complete flexibility in processing of photons...
Researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number of ways.It's a...
View ArticleTesla Motors will raise $500 million to accelerate gigafactory batteries and...
Telsa Motors announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $500 million of additional shares of common stock in an underwritten registered public offering.Elon Musk,...
View ArticleGoogle Research Boosts Deep Learning Detection with GPUs
GPUs are being used in neural network training and for near-real time execution of complex machine learning algorithms in natural language processing, image recognition, and rapid video analysis....
View ArticleMagnetic field 100 times strongest magnets made with lasers and Superfluid gas
MIT physicists have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field. The magnetic field is a synthetic magnetic field, generated...
View ArticleCanadian Inflated tower would be 20 times taller than any current skyscrape
Canadian space company, Thoth Technology Inc., has been granted the United States patent for a inflated tower. The freestanding space tower is pneumatically pressurized and actively-guided over its...
View ArticleRice University James Tour creates graphene tantalum non-volatile computer...
Scientists at Rice University have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.The memories are based on tantalum oxide, a...
View ArticleIf India boosts high school educated or higher workforce to 50% from 25% then...
Baker Institute - Structural Change Forecasts for India: How Big of a Bang Can a Big Bang Have? by Russell Green, Ph.D and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (31 pages)India’s political...
View ArticleBerkeley Earth Calculates that 1 in 6 deaths in China are caused by air...
Berkeley Earth released a study showing that air pollution kills an average of 4000 people every day in China, 17% of all China’s deaths. For 38% of the population, the average air they breathe is...
View ArticleUS Air Force combat lasers for both burning out sensors and AC-130 gunships...
The Air Force, however, is focused on lasers for its fighters. That’s a tighter fit than gunships or bombers, so the Air Force Research Laboratory has a relatively cautious three-phase plan, AFRL...
View ArticleChina could build floating airstrips three times longer than US aircraft...
The Jidong Development Group (JDG), a construction company and Hainan Hai Industrial Company are proposing to build a floating sea base for multipurpose usage, such as tourism, shipping, power...
View ArticleHistory and Future of Floating airports and modular Floating Cities
China's very large floating platforms are in the design and research phase for floating airports. Floating airports have been built in the past using pontoon structures and there are many interesting...
View ArticleBig Star Wars Expansions for Disneyland and Disney World
Disney’s Bob Iger announced that the company will introduce “Star Wars”-themed lands in the company’s Disneyland park in Anaheim, Calif., and Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in...
View ArticleHalf of North Dakota Wells return over 10% even at $30 per barrel well below...
Some parts of North Dakota’s Bakken shale play are profitable at less than $30 a barrel as companies tap bigger wells and benefit from lower drilling costs, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence...
View ArticleRussian Builder of T-14 Armata claims it has radar and infrared invisibility
Armour specialists from both Russia and the United States are sceptical of recent claims made by the enterprise that produces Russia's new T-14 Armata MBT that the tank is essentially "invisible" to...
View ArticleChina will start construction of a 600 MWe fourth generation nuclear reactor...
Construction of the Xipu fast neutron reactor nuclear power demonstrative project in east China's Fujian province is designed to start at the end of 2017, China Business News quoted Xu Mi, an...
View ArticleChina DF-5B liquid-fuel ICBM 'can hit any target on Earth'
China is believed to be developing a new DF-5B liquid-fuel missile that will be able to strike any target on the planet.The People's Liberation Army's current or in-development arsenal of long-range...
View ArticleAir Force admits big F35 problems and Think Tank says F35 is visible to China...
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has admitted to a wide range of past and present problems with the F-35 while maintaining that the fifth-general will eventually guarantee the U.S. continued air...
View ArticleSolar electric sports car design with unlimited daylight hour range
The Immortus is a limited edition bespoke solar electric sports car with on-board storage capacity. Inspired by the world portrayed in post-apocalyptic movies, the Immortus is designed to exhibit a...
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