Physicists say they've produced the first 'supersolid', and it's even stranger ... At its most simple, matter can come in the form of a solid, a liquid, a gas, or plasma. But what if you could combine the fundamental properties of these separate states to create a strange, hybrid form of matter that somehow exists as both a solid and a liquid? ... more
A microelectronic breakthrough: chips that need no semiconductor [video=youtube_share;pDllfr4udlU]https://youtu.be/pDllfr4udlU[/video] Scientists at the University of California San Diego have created the world's first microelectronic device that needs no semiconductors. Instead, this chip is made of metamaterials that can be activated by a weak laser pulse and low voltage... more
Wrlds smallest magnifying glass makes it possible to see chemical bonds between atoms For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn’t be focused down smaller than its wavelength, just under a millionth of a metre. Now, researchers led by the University of Cambridge have created the world’s smallest magnifying glass, which focuses light a billion times more tightly, down to the scale of single atoms. In collaboration with colleagues from Spain, the team used highly conductive gold nanoparticles to make the world’s tiniest optical cavity, so small that only a single molecule can fit within it. The cavity—called a ‘pico-cavity’ by the researchers—consists of a bump in a gold nanostructure the size of a single atom, and confines light to less than a billionth of a metre. The results, reported in the journal Science, open up new ways to study the interaction of light and matter, including the possibility of making the molecules in the cavity undergo new sorts of chemical reactions, which could enable the development of entirely new types of sensors. According to the researchers, building nanostructures with single atom control was extremely challenging. “We had to cool our samples to -260°C in order to freeze the scurrying gold atoms,” said Felix Benz, lead author of the study. The researchers shone laser light on the sample to build the pico-cavities, allowing them to watch single atom movement in real time. “Our models suggested that individual atoms sticking out might act as tiny lightning rods, but focusing light instead of electricity,” said Professor Javier Aizpurua from the Center for Materials Physics in San Sebastian, who led the theoretical section of this work. “Even single gold atoms behave just like tiny metallic ball bearings in our experiments, with conducting electrons roaming around, which is very different from their quantum life where electrons are bound to their nucleus,” said Professor Jeremy Baumberg of the NanoPhotonics Centre at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, who led the research. The findings have the potential to open a whole new field of light-catalysed chemical reactions, allowing complex molecules to be built from smaller components. Additionally, there is the possibility of new opto-mechanical data storage devices, allowing information to be written and read by light and stored in the form of molecular vibrations. Source: University of Cambridge Link
CIA Document Confirms Reality Of Superhuman Abilities Whether it is the childhood stories, the youth fantasies or the folklores you have heard of by the years, there is always that mystical creature with superhuman powers. And, as much as there are individuals that think it to be just stories, there are also those that believe in them. In order to understand the concept, you are required to comprehend that there is a relationship between consciousness and physical reality. • This has been cited by Max Planck that consciousness is fundamental and matter is the derivative of consciousness. • Another citation pursued by the physicist Eugene Wigner on matter holds significance in here -“it was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”... more
My wife has a similar ability to that woman, when she touches some parts of mine... Gorsky LOL good one... LOL@Gorsky
Brain-altering Halo Sport headphones If you have the money, you can see if jolting your mind improves athletic performance. Nov 17, 2016 These advanced products have only been sold to college teams, professional athletes, Olympians and the military… until now. Halo Sport headphones are actual headphones that play music and while they probably sound decent, the real story here is what’s hiding under the silicon spikes on the headband. As Tom Taylor of Sports Illustrated explains, the headset sends an electrical pulse that triggers a neuroplastic state in which neurons in the motor cortex can more easily build and strengthen neural connections to muscles. Stronger connections are said to improve both control of those muscles and the ability to utilize all the muscle fibers in them, thus effectively increasing strength. So, does it work? Halo Neuroscience sure seems to think so, as do some of the 50 professional and college teams that have tried it out over the past few years. But as with any training device or technique, pinpointing hard evidence isn’t easy. Are you really performing better because of the headphones or is it just a placebo effect? Halo Neuroscience has just opened sales up to the public but be warned, the headphones won’t come cheap. They’re regularly priced at $749 but are currently going for $699 for a limited time. That’s probably more than the average consumer is willing to spend but for competitive athletes, the proposition of improved performance (through legal means) may be too intriguing to pass up. https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/16/brain-altering-halo-sport-headphones-are-available-to-everyone/
Hitachi announces lensless camera for mobile devices No more camera bump Nov 20, 2016 Apple eliminated the 3.5mm headphone jack from its current crop of iPhones in part to free up valuable real estate inside the handset that could one day allow them to further slim down the device. Hitachi is essentially looking to do the same (reduce thickness and weight) although instead of the 3.5mm jack, its work is focused (no pun intended) on camera technology. With its new camera technology, known as Computational Photography, Hitachi says you’ll be able to capture images without using a lens and adjust focus after the fact by replacing the lens with a film imprinted with a concentric-circle pattern. For mobile devices, the technology could bring an end to the unsightly camera bumps that populate many of today’s flagship smartphones. http://www.photoxels.com/hitachi-lensless-camera-technology/
The cure for ageing is finally here! Scientists at Caltech and UCLA have found how to replace the ageing cells in our body in a breakthrough study... more
On a macroscopic level, it's taboo...On a microscopic level, it's okay I guess that means eat in really teenie bites.
Google DeepMind AI beats human experts in lip-reading tests Nov 23, 2016 Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence program may be best known for building AplhaGO, which beat one of the world’s best Go players, but the technology has numerous applications in the field of science and could prove especially helpful to the hearing impaired. Researchers from Oxford University and DeepMind teamed up to create and train an AI system that managed to outperform a professional lip-reader who provides services for UK courts. Researchers say the system could find use in mobile technologies, virtual assistants, and for general speech recognition tasks. It could also be invaluable in helping deaf and hearing-impaired people understand others. A machine that can lip read opens up a host of applications: 'dictating' instructions or messages to a phone in a noisy environment; transcribing and redubbing archival silent films; resolving multi-talker simultaneous speech; and, improving the performance of automated speech recognition in general. http://www.zdnet.com/article/google...rounces-human-expert-in-lip-reading-face-off/
Nuclear waste battery that can last 5.000 years! 25 November 2016 New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate an electrical current. The development could solve some of the problems of nuclear waste, clean electricity generation and battery life. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/november/diamond-power.html
Maybe they can call it a di-lithium crystal! (for trek fans) I can see Elon Musk putting something like that into his Tesla cars, no re-charging. Just get in and go
Yes, as long as they don't start exploding like those smartphone batteries. It'll be rather nasty with the nuclear material they contain.
Emergency employee's will be required to know and use radiation suits and disposal. I'd like to see someone make a home generator with something like that. But then you'd have the utility, gas and oil corporate looking to put you out of business asap
Tesla did it almost 85 years ago: http://www.apparentlyapparel.com/news/nikola-teslas-wireless-electric-automobile-explained There are various theories why he was able to ride that electric car: radiation (in the box he could have used such material) or wireless transmission of energy etc. Either way, he had a plan - a big plan - and he was close to making it a reality for all, it seems...