Beyond Nano Breakthrough, MIT Team Quietly Builds Virus-Based Batteries
(Photo Courtesy of Belcher Laboratory/MIT)CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In a surprise development that could have implications for powering electronics, cars and even the military, researchers at MIT have created the world’s first batteries constructed at the nano scale by microscopic viruses. A much-buzzed-about paper published in the Proceedings [...]
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Beyond Nano Breakthrough, MIT Team Quietly Builds Virus-Based Batteries – Popular Mechanics
Posted in My Thoughts on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Posted in My Thoughts on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Einstein-Rosen Bridge
By Samuel Joseph George
In 1916 Einstein first introduced his general theory of relativity, a theory which to this day remains the standard model for gravitation. Twenty years later, he and his long-time collaborator Nathan Rosen published a paper[1] showing that implicit in the general relativity formalism is a curved-space structure that can [...]
QinetiQ’s Zephyr breaks flight time record for unmanned aircraft | Crave, the gadget blog – CNET
Posted in My Thoughts on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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The Zephyr aircraft flies purely by solar power.
(Credit: QinetiQ)
After 16 days, the Olympics concluded with 43 world records being broken. However, there’s another record today that’s no less exciting.
QinetiQ claimed Sunday that its propeller-driven aircraft called Zephyr flew for 83 hours and 37 minutes nonstop, more than doubling the official [...]
Intel: Laptops could get power wirelessly > News > PC Authority: Look ma, no hands
Posted in My Thoughts on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It looks like a high school science project, but is actually the first step towards one day wirelessly powering your notebook or mobile phone.
The two coils pictured here are passing power between them. It’s only enough to power a light bulb, but it’s amazing to see, with no cables, coils or wires between the bulb [...]
‘We are running out of time for a two-state solution’ – Haaretz – Israel News
Posted in My Thoughts on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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‘We are running out of time for a two-state solution’
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
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At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University – and cosignatory of “The People’s [...]
Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists Get a Reaction From Fusion – WSJ.com
Posted in My Thoughts on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Homemade ‘Fusors’ Glow, But Don’t Produce Power; Joining the ‘Neutron Club’
By SAM SCHECHNERAugust 18, 2008; Page A1
PITTSBURGH — In the garage of his house, Frank Sanns spends nights tinkering with one of his prized possessions: a working nuclear-fusion reactor.
Mr. Sanns, 51 years old, is part of a small subculture of gearheads, amateur physicists and science-fiction [...]
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Posted in My Thoughts on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty” … Nicole Kuepper yesterday.Photo: Kate Geraghty
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Deborah Smith, Science EditorAugust 20, 2008
FOR her 10th birthday, Nicole Kuepper received an inspirational present from her parents – her first solar-energy kit.
It sparked a fascination with solar technology that last night led to Ms Kuepper, [...]
Mirror test shows magpies aren’t so bird-brained – life – 19 August 2008 – New Scientist
Posted in My Thoughts on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Self-recognition, once thought to be an ability enjoyed only by select primates, has now been demonstrated in a bird.
The finding has raised questions about part of the brain called the neocortex, something the self-aware magpie does not even possess.
In humans, the ability to recognise oneself in a mirror develops around the age of 18 months [...]
Science News / Stars Ablaze In Other Skies
Posted in My Thoughts on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Calculations find that many universes could sustain stars
Fred Adams sees stars in the most unlikely places.
His calculations suggest that, contrary to some previous claims, stars are not only common in our cosmos but are also ablaze in myriad other universes, where the laws of physics may be drastically different. Even in a cosmos where balls [...]
Jewish Task Force (JTF.ORG): Jewish Hero Noam Federman Finally Freed After 9 Months In Prison
Posted in My Thoughts on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jewish Hero Noam FedermanFinally Freed After 9 Months In Prison
(Originally published by JTF.ORG on June 16, 2004)
Jewish hero Noam Federman with wife Elisha after his release from Israel’s Ashkelon prison
Jewish hero Noam Federman gets a hero’s welcome outside Ashkelon prison
Jewish hero Noam Federman was finally freed last week after nine months of brutal imprisonment in [...]
