Design of a 3D silicon chip quantum computer architecture based on single...
Researchers at UNSW and the University of Melbourne have designed a 3D silicon chip architecture based on single atom quantum bits, providing a blueprint to build a large-scale quantum...
View ArticleNew welding technique can weld “un-weldable” metals using 80% less energy and...
Engineers at The Ohio State University have developed a new welding technique that consumes 80 percent less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50 percent stronger.The...
View ArticleIntegrated escape capsules needed for hypersonic passenger planes
Scientists are working on a shape-shifting escape capsule for use with high-speed hypersonic planes which could potentially fly between Europe and Australia in under two hours in future.Faster than...
View ArticleGeopolitics of Long-Range Hypersonic High-Precision Weapons
Unlike nuclear weapons, which are “tools of extreme impact,” Long-Range Hypersonic High-Precision Weapons (or Advanced Hypersonic Weapons – AHW in US terminology) are ready for use in any scenario,...
View ArticleAsia Wealth Forecast to 2020
Swiss firm Julius Baer has a 2015-2020 Asian Wealth ReportJulius Baer forecasts that high net worth individuals will still grow wealth at about 9-12% per year in China, India, Taiwan, Malaysia...
View ArticleWorld's richest and distribution by country
The global population of ultra-high-networth individuals grew by almost 5,200 in 2014, according to data prepared exclusively for The Wealth Report by the analyst firm WealthInsight.This latest...
View ArticleF35 helmet costs $400,000 and entire fighter jets for less than the price 50...
The pilots flying the F35 aircraft will be wearing the most advanced and most expensive helmet ever.The helmet will give pilots quicker access to the information they need to see and has special...
View ArticleJAK inhibitor drugs could restore hair growth after loss from male pattern...
In experiments with mouse and human hair follicles, Angela M. Christiano, PhD, and colleagues found that drugs that inhibit the Janus kinase (JAK) family of enzymes promote rapid and robust hair growth...
View ArticleMoore's law is stalling so cloud chips are being customized for AI problems...
An important challenge is brewing for traditional chip makers: the cloud, or Internet-based computing. Driven by the need to analyze massive amounts of data, the Goliaths of the Internet— Alphabet (aka...
View ArticleConducting ink can boost solar thermal by 70% for a few dollars
Researchers at the Technological Institute of the Lagoon (ITL), Mexico, have created a nanoparticle-rich, conducting ink that they have used to coat pipes of solar water heaters to increase their...
View ArticleRussia has submarines that are competitive with the US Seawolf subs
Rear Adm. Dave Johnson, Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) program executive officer (PEO) submarines has a model of Russian nuclear guided missile submarine (Severodvinsk) placed outside his office...
View ArticleChina's Social Credit system, computerized Orwell with a government...
The Chinese government is building an omnipotent "social credit" system that is meant to rate each citizen's trustworthiness.By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database...
View ArticleIndia begins sea trials of Scorpene Class Submarines
The Scorpene-class diesel electric submarine Kalvari has begun sea trials. Six of these submarines are to be delivered to the Indian Navy by 2020. The Scorpène-class submarines are a class of...
View ArticleNASA Eagleworks has tested an upgraded Emdrive
Paul March says Eagleworks has mitigated the issues raised by our Eaglework (EW)Lab's Blue-Ribbon PhD panel and now Potomac-Neuron's paper, on the possible Lorentz force interactions.The issue was...
View ArticleAnimating clothing 8 times faster or with more detail
Existing multigrid methods for cloth simulation are based on geometric multigrid. While good results have been reported, geometric methods are problematic for unstructured grids, widely varying...
View ArticleCambridge overcome many of the toughest problems with lithium air battery
Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient, and, to date, can be recharged more than 2000...
View ArticleChina's military and other countries emphasizing Cyber Warfare
China’s military chiefs are seeking to unify the country’s cyber warfare capabilities as they build a modern fighting force that relies less on ground troops. A move to a centralized command reporting...
View ArticleBAE Systems and Reaction Engines to develop SABRE hypersonic engine
AE Systems plc and Reaction Engines Limited (‘Reaction Engines’) announced a strategic investment by BAE Systems and a working collaboration to accelerate Reaction Engines’ development of SABRETM – a...
View ArticleCBS launching a new Star Trek TV series January, 2017 on CBS All Access
Prolific producer Alex Kurtzman is developing a new take on Star Trek for TV, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The new Star Trek has been picked up straight to series at CBS, with the premiere...
View ArticleBootstrapping Atomic Precision using adjustable DNA origami triangle hinge
A new study demonstrates that researchers can control the distance between two molecules such that they can adjust the step size to as small as Bohr's radius. This proof-of-concept study using DNA...
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