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Computer. New graphene-based material could revolutionize electronics industry. Public release date: 27-Apr-2012 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Sarah Hoyles.hoyle@exeter.ac.uk 44-782-730-9332University of Exeter The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has been invented by a team from the University of Exeter.
Called GraphExeter, the material could revolutionise the creation of wearable electronic devices, such as clothing containing computers, phones and MP3 players. GraphExeter could also be used for the creation of 'smart' mirrors or windows, with computerised interactive features. Adapted from graphene, GraphExeter is much more flexible than indium tin oxide (ITO), the main conductive material currently used in electronics. These research findings are published in the journal Advanced Materials, a leading journal in materials science. Dark Matter Search Turns Up Empty. Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence.
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Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang. LiftPort Space Elevator - LiftPort v2.0! Amazing Robot Can Jump 30 Feet High. Boston Dynamics yesterday posted a video to their YouTube page showing off their “Sand Flea Jumping Robot.
The robot appears to be a normal RC car except for one thing: it can pop itself 30 feet into the air to scale obstacles in its path. The video, as seen below, shows the robot leap to the roof of a small building in a single bound. The robot has an onboard stabilization system that helps control landings and stabilize the view from its onboard video uplink. Funding for the development of the ‘Sand Flea’ was provided by DARPA, JIEDDO, and the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Boston Dynamics describes itself on its website as “an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.” Impressed? Amazing Robot Can Jump 30 Feet High. Emergency and Disaster Information Service.
Liquipel nanocoating adds invisible waterproof coating to mobile devices. Liquipel is a nanocoating claimed to protect mobile devices from 'accidental water damage' Image Gallery (2 images) We all know that water and mobile electronic devices aren't a good mix.
Atom-tall silicon wires pave way for quantum computers. Researchers have created silicon wire four atoms wide and one atom tall capable of carrying equivalent current to copper wires 20 times as thick (Image: University of New South Wales) Image Gallery (2 images) The world's narrowest silicon wires with a cross section of a mere four atoms by one atom have been created by a team of developers from the University of New South Wales, the University of Melbourne and Purdue University.
The wires are fully functioning, with current-carrying capacity equivalent to that of a microprocessor's copper cable, despite being 20 times thinner - and 10,000 times narrower than a human hair. The team adopted a very different approach to circuit construction in order to develop wires at this scale. "Typically we chip or etch material away, which can be very expensive, difficult and inaccurate," said Gerhard Klimech, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. About the Author. Light pressure at the nanoscale.
Clean Magnesium Energy Cycle Hints at Fossil Fuel Freedom. An experiment being performed at the Hokkaido Toyako G8 summit in Chitose, Japan, aims to prove that the revolutionary Magnesium Energy Cycle could one day free society from dependence on fossil fuels.
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That Video Site. Atoms are mini black holes? * Randomness as Meaning. Introduction This article describes how, in our search for order and purpose in life, people sometimes assign meaning to events that are objectively random and devoid of meaning.
Consider these two images — one dot pattern is random, the other isn't: One of the two images above shows a random pattern of dots, the other has been manipulated to resemble a random pattern but isn't really random. Which image is random? In perception studies, most people choose Sample A because Sample B shows tight clusters of dots that don't really seem random. 10 Strange Things About The Universe.
Space The universe can be a very strange place.
While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ? 273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. However, you can never actually cool something to this temperature because, in quantum mechanics, every particle has a minimum energy, called “zero-point energy,” which you cannot get below. One of the properties of a negative-energy vacuum is that light actually travels faster in it than it does in a normal vacuum, something that may one day allow people to travel faster than the speed of light in a kind of negative-energy vacuum bubble.
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