DSoM Post New Lightning-Fast, Efficient Nanoscale Data Transmission

From:  http://www.sciencedaily.com



 

ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2011) — A team at Stanford's School of Engineering has demonstrated an ultrafast nanoscale light-emitting diode (LED) that is orders of magnitude lower in power consumption than today's laser-based systems and is able to transmit data at the very rapid rate of 10 billion bits per second.

The researchers say it is a major step forward in providing a practical ultrafast, low-power light source for on-chip data transmission.

Link:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111115133030.htm

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6t832sk

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Dark Side of Matter Post: What in the World Is Superhydrophobic Coating

A New Superhydrophobic Coating

is Truly Stunning

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Link:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57323425-1/this-superhydrophobic-coating-is-truly-stunning/?tag=rtcol

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7s4sxhc

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DSoM Post More Details on the "faster than the speed of light" Neutrinos

From:  http://arstechnica.com

Last night, in response to a worldwide surge in interest, the OPERA experiment released a paper that describes the experiments that appear to show neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. And today, CERN broadcast a live seminar in which one of the work's authors described the content of the paper. Both of those emphasized the point of our initial coverage: figuring out whether anything is traveling beyond the speed of light requires incredibly accurate measurements of time and distance, and the OPERA team has made an extensive effort to make its work as accurate as possible.

 

Link:  http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/09/neutrino-results-depend-on-exquisite-measurements-of-time-space.ars?utm_source=Ars+Technica+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ac658b48ad-September_02_2011_Newsletter&utm_medium=email

216 freakin' characters.  Try typing that into a portable device.  We Don't just Live on the Desktop Anymore...

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3e3p8c6

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DSOM Post Is the "The Higgs" Science Fiction?

From:  http://www.physorg.com

Endgame for the Higgs Boson

The last missing piece of scientists’ fundamental model of particle physics is running out of places to hide.

The Final Answer should come by December...

Link:  http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-endgame-higgs-boson.html

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3g3udzo

 

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DSOM Post Darkest Planet Found

From:  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news

Coal-Black, It Reflects Almost No Light

 

Illustration of TrES-2b

About the size of Jupiter.

The newfound gas-giant planet TrES-2b is black with a slight red glow, 
experts estimate.


Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet, dubbed TrES-2b, is heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit 
(980 degrees Celsius).
 

Link:  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110812-new-planet-darkest-black-coal-kipping-science-space-kepler/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/4xc3s3r

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DSOM Post Texas and Antarctica Were Attached, Rocks Hint

About 1.1 billion years ago, what are now El Paso, Texas, and Antarctica appear to have existed side by side, scientists say.

The find is part of a decades-long effort to piece together fragments of an ancient supercontinent that existed before Pangaea.

 

 

Link:  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110815-texas-antarcica-connected-supercontinent-rodinia-science/

 

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3gql5uo

 

 

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MC2's DSOM Post We Don't Need No Stinkin Soil?

From:  http://news.cnet.com 

Someone Must have read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Tomatoes, Melons, Cucumbers Grown 

on Thin Films

Who needs soil when you can grow crops on film? Japan's Mebiol is growing a Garden of Eden of sorts on its thin hydro-membranes, which are only microns thick.

As the vid below shows, the firm's Integrated Membrane Culture, or IMEC (PDF), is a technology for farming using a substrate that's made from hydrogels. No soil is needed, as the plants absorb water and nutrients from the film.

Link:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20093749-1/tomatoes-melons-cucumbers-grown-on-thin-films/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3f4hrrw

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