Pulsar GPS for solar system navigation and precisely weigh planets and rules...
CSIRO scientists have written software that could guide spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, show that the planet Nibiru doesn’t exist … and prove that the Earth goes around the Sun. Pulsars are small...
View ArticlePlasma-treated nano filters help purify world water supply
An international team of researchers – led by Associate Professor Hui Ying Yang from Singapore University of Technology and Design– showed that water purification membranes enhanced by plasma-treated...
View ArticleNew rechargeable flow battery generates three times the power density of...
MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity. The palm-sized prototype generates three times as much power...
View ArticleNew Heavy oil recovery process can get over 80% of oil in place and is 11%...
A new enhanced heavy oil recovery (EHOR) process called Cyclic Production with Continuous Solvent Injection (CPCSI) has been developed at the University of Regina in Canada. In this process, a...
View ArticleBoeing thin disk solid state laser efficiently reach 30 kilowatts of power...
The Boeing Thin Disk Laser system integrates a series of high-power industrial lasers to generate one concentrated, high-energy beam, exceeded required thresholds for power and beam quality during a...
View ArticleMemristor based self organizing adaptive neural network chip could speed...
Loosely inspired by a biological brain's approach to making sense of visual information, a University of Michigan researcher is leading a project to build alternative computer hardware that could...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia leaders and Egypts military will go all out to purge and...
NPR thinks that there are three scenarios in Egypt but there is only one scenario. 1. Reconciliation between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood (I do not think this is possible) 2. Military Rule....
View ArticleHypersolar nears voltage level for direct solar hydrogen production without...
HyperSolar, the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, announced that its artificial photosynthesis technology is now capable of...
View ArticleChinese shipbuilders develop integrated electric propulsion technology
China Shipbuilding Industry Corp said its Wuhan Institute of Marine Electric Propulsion finalized its integrated electric propulsion technology in mid-July. It said the in-house development will help...
View ArticleSuperstrong graphene metal composite created that hundreds of times stronger...
New metamaterial has been developed exhibiting hundreds of times greater strength than pure metals. Professor Seung Min, Han and Yoo Sung, Jeong,Professor Seok Woo, Jeon have developed a composite...
View ArticleMcKinsey view of China's future
McKinsey is forecasting a worsening shortage of university educated and vocationally trained people in China by 2020. According to new McKinsey research, at the lower end of the labor market, in 2020...
View ArticleMcKinsey's Gordon Orr analyzes his past and future predictions for China
What McKinsey's Gordon Orr has learned from five years of making annual predictions about China. New Year forecasting is a widely practiced business art in most areas of the world, but in China it...
View ArticleNational Ignition facility triples laser fusion yield to 8000 joules
On Aug.13, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) focused all 192 of its ultra-powerful laser beams on a tiny deuterium-tritium filled capsule. In the nanoseconds that followed, the...
View ArticleOptimal placement of femtocells will help meet demand for wireless broadband
Communication will account for $4.5 trillion in economic activity globally in 2020. But if we have only half the spectrum we need to conduct business like we are used to doing, it could negatively...
View ArticleUS Closes Nuclear Plant, China and Saudi Arabia continue with nuclear power...
1. Entergy plans to close and decommission its Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. The station is expected to cease power production after its current fuel cycle and move to safe shutdown in the...
View ArticleEnabling more to catch up to the top 1% with educational reform and increased...
What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion...
View ArticleChina’s Economy in a report Summarized for the US Congress
There is a congressional report on China's economy. China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the U.S. (43 pages). China’s economic rise has significant implications for...
View ArticleNew York Times Updates the Sky City skyscraper project
China is home to 60 of the world's 100 tallest buildings now under construction. But the skyward aspirations of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, have inspired incredulity tinged with hostility....
View ArticleNissan promises to start Marketing Affordable Self-Driving Cars by 2020
"Nissan Motor Co. pledges that we will be ready to bring multiple affordable, energy efficient, fully autonomous-driving vehicles to the market by 2020," Executive Vice President Andy Palmer said...
View ArticleNew technique for activating multiple genes at the same time
By creating a powerful new gene regulation system called CRISPR-on, Whitehead Institute researchers now have the ability to increase the expression of multiple genes simultaneously and precisely...
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