Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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Josh says:
Thank you for the enlightening article on innovation! I appreciate how you distinguish between novelty, creation, invention, and true innovation. Your insights remind me of the Pomodoro timer concept, where a simple yet effective approach can optimize productivity. This article on pomodoro timer tomato (https://productive.fish/pomodoro-timer/) elaborates on the power of simple solutions. Great read!
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Tiesitkö: Nokian alunperin kehittämä radiotekniikka on maailman suosituin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15231-tiesitkoe-nokian-alunperin-kehittaemae-radiotekniikka-on-maailman-suosituin
Vuonna 2001 Nokian tutkimuskeskus julkisti uuden radiotekniikan, jonka tarkoitus oli mahdollistaa erittäin vähävirtainen langaton tiedonsiirto matkapuhelimissa. Nykyään tämä tekniikka on todennäköisesti maailman käytetyin lyhyen kantaman radiotekniikka.
Nokian tutkimuskeskuksessa kehitetty tekniikka oli nimeltään Wibree. Se toimi 2,4 gigahertsin taajuudella kuten Ericssonin kehittämä Bluetooth. Sen kantama oli 200 metriä ja datanopeus megabitin verran.
Vuonna 2006 tekniikka nimettiin uudelleen Bluetooth Smartiksi ja sen kehitys siirtyi Bluetooth SIG:lle. Myöhemmin tekniikasta kehittyi Bluetooth Low Energy -protokolla ja nykyään BLE muodostaa valtaosan kaikista Bluetooth-yhteyksistä. Se toimii myös pohjana Bluetoothin uusille kehityssuunnille esimerkiksi audioyhteyksissä.
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https://onestopsystems.com/blogs/one-stop-systems-blog/the-power-of-adaptability-gaining-a-competitive-edge
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https://hackaday.com/2023/07/10/the-man-whose-scopes-we-all-wanted-to-own-walter-lecroy/
We’re sorry to say that back in May we missed the passing of Walter LeCroy, the man whose name appeared on some of the most desirable and higher-spec oscilloscopes to be found. If you’ve never used a LeCroy ‘scope then you’ll still have benefited from his work, as a pioneer of storage oscilloscopes even the more modest instruments which now grace our benches owe much to his legacy.
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4 Years of Electrical Engineering in 26 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngo3ZTrT69A
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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) found that people who have watched repeated immersive videos of others consuming candy, subsequently have a significantly decreased craving for it.
The study involved exposing subjects to “immersive” videos, whereby they were turned into “active participants” with the use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) headsets, 360-degree videos, and motion tracking. Results found that viewers who watched the candy-eating video 30 times subsequently consumed an average of a third less candy.
https://mothership.sg/2023/08/candy-pretend-eat-mukbang/?fbclid=IwAR3uybjAoLGw6yVOVAHStZeefUmWQoHeRCrnayzYGAQeqEi757_2NL6MkVA
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15263-sinkki-ilma-on-litiumia-parempi
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How Advances in Sensor and Digital Technology Yield Better Patient Care
https://www.analog.com/en/thought-leadership/how-advances-in-sensor-and-digital-tech-yield-better-patient-care.html
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https://hackaday.com/2023/08/28/the-device-that-won-ww2-a-history-of-the-cavity-magnetron/
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“All models are wrong. Some models are useful.”
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Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years/
A new interpretation of Isaac Newton’s writings clarifies what the father of classical mechanics meant in his first law of motion
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Road Salt? Bah! New Roadway Material Promises A Better Solution To Snow And Ice
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/06/road-salt-bah-new-roadway-material-promises-a-better-solution-to-snow-and-ice/
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Tutkimus: Ihmiset työstivät 1,4 miljoonaa vuotta sitten ahkerasti tennispallon kokoisia kivipalloja – Kysymys kuuluu, miksi?
https://tekniikanmaailma.fi/tutkimus-ihmiset-tyostivat-14-miljoonaa-vuotta-sitten-ahkerasti-tennispallon-kokoisia-kivipalloja-kysymys-kuuluu-miksi/
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Tältä näyttää kauan odotettu aivopesuri, joka kiinnostaa nyt valtavasti – lue kuusi pointtia laitteesta
Oulun yliopiston tuore hankinta, aivopesuriksi nimetty FUS LiFu -laite, on herättänyt laajaa kiinnostusta. Laitteesta odotetaan läpimurtoa muistisairauksien hoidossa.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20048831
Oulun yliopiston tuore laitehankinta on herättänyt kiinnostusta ulkomaita myöten. Suomalaiskeksintöön perustuvaa laitetetta asennetaan parhaillaan Oulun yliopistolliseen sairaalaan.
Aivopesuriksi nimetyllä FUS LiFU -laitteella voidaan pestä kuona-aineita muistisairaiden ihmisten aivoista ja auttaa aivojen lääkinnässä. Menetelmästä odotetaan jopa läpimurtoa monien aivosairauksien hoidossa
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Scientists Have Observed a Never-Before-Seen Form of Oxygen
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-observed-a-never-before-seen-form-of-oxygen
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Nasa: Kaukaisella planeetalla merkkejä elämän mahdollisuudesta
Nasa tiedottaa löytäneensä jättiplaneetalta merkkejä elämän mahdollisuudesta.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/ec0a7ec5-f37f-42cf-856c-2e57a832cfc5
Nasan James Webb -avaruusteleskoopin avulla tekemät löydöt viittaavat mahdollisuuteen, että liki yhdeksän kertaa Maata suuremmalla planeetalla voisi mahdollisesti olla elämää.
Tutkijat ovat antaneet 120 valovuoden päässä Leijonan tähdistössä sijaitsevalle planeetalle nimen K2-18 b. Se saattaa olla niin sanottu Hycean-planeetta, mitä Nasa kuvailee tiedotteessaan kiehtovaksi ajatukseksi.
Mahdollisesti elinkelpoiselta planeetalta Aurinkokunnan ulkopuolelta löytyi ensi kertaa vettä: ”Paras ehdokkaamme etsiessämme merkkejä elämästä”
Tähtitieteilijät ovat löytäneet ensimmäistä kertaa vettä Aurinkokuntamme ulkopuoliselta, mahdollisesti elinkelpoiselta planeetalta.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/10f61601-3473-46a1-8bfa-06ca3113ca7e
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What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing Better Science
“Anscombe’s quartet” and the “datasaurus dozen” demonstrate the importance of visualizing data
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-this-graph-of-a-dinosaur-can-teach-us-about-doing-better-science/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3k6jtKNz8IcGmjeX057o04nyuwgahAcKinbyMn26sVE0nJ-G09KJekGtM
Mark Twain once wrote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” (He attributed the quip to former British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, but its true origin is unknown.) Given the foundational importance of statistics in modern science, this quote paints a bleak picture of the scientific endeavor. Thankfully, several generations of scientific progress have proved Twain’s sentiment to be an exaggeration. Still, we shouldn’t discard the wisdom in those words. While statistics is an essential tool for understanding the world, employing it responsibly and avoiding its pitfalls requires a delicate dance.
One maxim that should be etched into the walls of all scientific institutions is to visualize your data. Statistics specializes in applying objective quantitative measures to understand data, but there is no substitute for actually graphing it out and getting a look at its shape and structure with one’s own eyeballs.
Despite its popularity, nobody knows how Anscombe concocted his famous quartet. Justin Matejka and George Fitzmaurice of Autodesk Research in Toronto sought to rectify this and took the concept to its extreme. They demonstrated a general purpose method for taking any data set and transforming it into any target shape of your choosing while preserving whichever summary statistics you want (up to two decimal places). The results are the datasaurus dozen.
As baseball legend Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot by watching.”
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Koko Eurooppa olisi saattanut tuhoutua ydinholokaustissa, jos maailman 3. paras fyysikko ei olisi kuollut syöpään 48-vuotiaana – tästä on kyse
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/koko-eurooppa-olisi-saattanut-tuhoutua-ydinholokaustissa-jos-maailman-3-paras-fyysikko-ei-olisi-kuollut-syopaan-48-vuotiaana-tasta-on-kyse/c949ff4c-a41c-4c8c-95d1-06c8dfd4b2de
Vaihtoehtoinen historia on aina spekulatiivista, mutta tämän spekulaation lähtökohtana on asiantuntija-arvio J. C. Maxwellin uskomattomista taidoista.
Ei näin. Jos James Clerk Maxwell olisi keksinyt suhteellisuusteorian, toinen maailmansota olisi voinut olla ydinsota.
Koko Eurooppa tai jopa koko maailma olisi saattanut kuolla ydinsodassa, jos skottifyysikko James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79) ei olisi kuollut ennenaikaisesti syöpään 48-vuotiaana.
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Sambiasta löytyi liki puoli miljoonaa vuotta vanha esine – voi mullistaa käsityksen ihmisen historiasta
Vielä ei tiedetä, mikä ihmislaji on puurakenteiden takana.
https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009869590.html
Tutkijat ovat löytäneet Sambiasta puisen rakenteen, jonka arvioidaan olevan lähes puoli miljoonaa vuotta vanha. Asiasta kertovat Nature-lehti ja BBC.
Nature-lehdessä julkaistut havainnot viittaavat siihen, että kivikauden ihmiset ovat käyttäneet löydettyjä kappaleita väliaikaisten asumustensa rakentamiseen.
– Tämä löytö on muuttanut sitä, miten ajattelen varhaisista esivanhemmistamme, arkeologi professori Larry Barham sanoi BBC:n mukaan.
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Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772
The discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists’ understanding of ancient human life.
Researchers found evidence the wood had been used to build a structure almost half a million years ago.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, suggest stone-age people built what may have been shelters.
“This find has changed how I think about our early ancestors,” archaeologist Prof Larry Barham said.
The University of Liverpool scientist leads the Deep Roots of Humanity research project, which excavated and analysed the ancient timber.
Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9
Abstract
Wood artefacts rarely survive from the Early Stone Age since they require exceptional conditions for preservation; consequently, we have limited information about when and how hominins used this basic raw material1. We report here on the earliest evidence for structural use of wood in the archaeological record. Waterlogged deposits at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, dated by luminescence to at least 476 ± 23 kyr ago (ka), preserved two interlocking logs joined transversely by an intentionally cut notch. This construction has no known parallels in the African or Eurasian Palaeolithic. The earliest known wood artefact is a fragment of polished plank from the Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel, more than 780 ka (refs. 2,3). Wooden tools for foraging and hunting appear 400 ka in Europe4,5,6,7,8, China9 and possibly Africa10. At Kalambo we also recovered four wood tools from 390 ka to 324 ka, including a wedge, digging stick, cut log and notched branch. The finds show an unexpected early diversity of forms and the capacity to shape tree trunks into large combined structures. These new data not only extend the age range of woodworking in Africa but expand our understanding of the technical cognition of early hominins11, forcing re-examination of the use of trees in the history of technology12,13.
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https://hackaday.com/2023/09/20/aluminum-battery-is-sustainable/
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Concrete + Carbon Black Supercapacitor Promises Large-Scale Energy Storage—Maybe
Sept. 19, 2023
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MIT researchers analyzed and evaluated low-cost, easily fabricated supercapacitors that potentially offer high capacity plus structural strength.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/power/article/21273932/electronic-design-concrete-carbon-black-supercapacitor-promises-largescale-energy-storagemaybe?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230914119&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
What you’ll learn:
How researchers built a supercapacitor from concrete and carbon black.
Detailed theory and analysis, and the performance they achieved.
The possible implications of this energy-storage component.
The high-density energy stage has always been a challenge, whether accomplished using electrochemistry and batteries, electric fields and supercapacitors, gravity-based systems of various types, or any of the many other options.
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and the affiliated Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering claims to have devised a technical and cost-effective solution using relatively mundane materials: concrete, carbon black, water, and potassium-chloride salts. (Note: Carbon black is a common industrial material produced from incomplete combustion of heavy petroleum products, and contrary to misconceptions, is very different than charcoal.)
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Do You Share Your Content Sources with Other Engineers?
Aug. 17, 2023
Is sharing this type of information part of your collaboration regime?
https://www.mwrf.com/home/article/21271936/electronic-design-do-you-share-your-content-sources-with-other-engineers?utm_source=RF+MWRF+Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230818083&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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https://hackaday.com/2023/09/25/inverse-vaccines-could-help-treat-autoimmune-conditions/
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Bill, Steve, And Gary… Computer Pioneers
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/25/bill-steve-and-gary-computer-pioneers/
If you ask your neighbor who Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is, they’d probably know. But mention Gary Kildall, and you are likely to get a blank stare unless you live next door to another Hackaday reader. [Al’s Geek Lab] has a great three-part documentary on Gary Kildall who, in case you didn’t know, was the man behind CP/M, a very influential operating system in the early days of computing and one that set the stage for the PC revolution.
You probably know the folktale that when IBM was looking for an operating system, Bill Gates took the meeting, and Gary Kildall went surfing instead. But like most capsule histories, there is plenty more to the story, and it isn’t as simple as people make it out.
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Bending Light To Fit Technology
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/22/bending-light-to-fit-technology/
Solar power is an excellent way of generating electricity, whether that’s for an off-grid home or for the power grid. With no moving parts maintenance is relatively low, and the downsides of burning fuel are eliminated as well. But as much as it’s revolutionized power generation over the last few decades, there’s still some performance gains to be made when it comes to the solar cells themselves. A team at Stanford recently made strides in improving cell efficiency by bending the properties of sunlight itself.
In order to generate electricity directly from sunlight, a photon with a specific amount of energy needs to strike the semiconductor material. Any photons with higher energy will waste some of that energy as heat, and any with lower energy won’t generate electricity. Previous methods to solve this problem involve using something similar to a prism to separate the light out into colors (or energies) that correlate to specific types of cells calibrated specifically for those colors. This method does the opposite: it changes the light itself to an color that fits the semiconductor material. I
The Practical Power of Fusing Photons
https://spectrum.ieee.org/photon-upconversion
Changing the color of light supercharges solar energy, 3D printing, and night vision
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years/
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Scientists get closer to solving mystery of antimatter
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66890649?fbclid=IwAR047JcLAOwZu4si39iawaXQa-j42XDN-TNEgd6Y7bfr0yRrcxv6ZFAWmwM
Scientists have made a key discovery about antimatter – a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began.
Antimatter is the opposite of matter, from which stars and planets are made.
Both were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang which formed our Universe. While matter is everywhere, though, its opposite is now fiendishly hard to find.
The latest study has discovered the two respond to gravity in the same way.
For years, physicists have been scrambling to discover their differences and similarities, to explain how the Universe arose.
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https://hackaday.com/2023/09/27/will-nickel-hydrogen-cells-be-the-energy-storage-holy-grail/
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HARVARD/MIT SCIENTISTS CLAIM NEW “CHEMICAL COCKTAILS” CAN REVERSE AGING
“UNTIL RECENTLY, THE BEST WE COULD DO WAS SLOW AGING. NEW DISCOVERIES SUGGEST WE CAN NOW REVERSE IT.”
https://futurism.com/neoscope/harvard-mit-scientists-claim-chemical-cocktails-reverse-aging
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https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-have-figured-out-exactly-why-whisky-tastes-better-with-water-43322
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/10/01/suomalaisen-keksijan-hammastyttava-elama/
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https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Tigerstedt
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REMEMBER THAT BLACK HOLE THEY TOOK A PICTURE OF? IT’S SPINNING
https://futurism.com/the-byte/black-hole-spinning
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https://hackaday.com/2023/10/03/metamaterial-enables-topological-pumping-of-elastic-surface-waves/
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https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/why-walking-tanks-never-became-a-thing/
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Femtosecond Laser Clones Itself In Glass
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/03/femtosecond-laser-clones-itself-in-glass/
When researchers at the Galatea laboratory in Switzerland set out to create a femtosecond laser in glass they weren’t certain it was going to work. To be precise, their goal was to create a femtosecond laser cavity using carefully aligned optics. Rather than using the traditional, discrete method, they used a commercial femtosecond laser to carve out the elements of the optical cavity in glass. The choice for glass came down to the low thermal expansion of this material, and it being transparent for the optical frequencies being targeted.
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https://hackaday.com/2023/10/03/bioadhesive-polymer-semiconductors-for-in-vivo-sensors/
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https://hackaday.com/2023/10/05/rock-salt-may-lead-the-way-to-better-batteries/
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Breaking: Earth has been hit by a blast of energy so powerful that scientists cannot explain it.
Earth hit by blast of energy from dead star so powerful that scientists can’t explain it
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/star-gamma-ray-energy-blast-b2424698.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0worwYooM8LsUgpY7nTdOUyhUmBva4UoBGXjB8r24JpXBVr8O5sWBVm_8#Echobox=1696518390
‘This result challenges our previous knowledge of pulsars,’ scientist says
Earth has been hit by a blast from a dead star so energetic that scientists cannot explain it.
The burst of gamma rays, originating in a dead star known as a pulsar, is the most high energy of its kind ever seen. It was equivalent about ten trillion times the energy of visible light, or 20 tera-electronvolts.
Scientists are unable to explain exactly what kind of a scenario could lead a pulsar to emit such intense energy, and the researchers behind the breakthrough say that it “requires a rethinking of how these natural accelerators work”.
As pulsars spin, they throw out beams of electromagnetic radiation, throwing it out like a cosmic lighthouse. That means that someone in one spot – like the Earth – will see the radiation pulses flash in a regular rhythm as they spin past.
The radiation is thought to be the result of fast electrons that are produced and thrown out by the the pulsar’s magnetosphere, which is made up of plasma and electromagnetic fields that surround the star and spin with it. Scientists can search the radiation for different energy bands within the electromagnetic spectrum, helping them understand it.
“That is about 200 times more energetic than all radiation ever detected before from this object,”
“The traditional scheme according to which particles are accelerated along magnetic field lines within or slightly outside the magnetosphere cannot sufficiently explain our observations.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15390-alumiinianodi-voi-mullistaa-akut
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Tämän tekniikan piti olla mahdoton, mutta nyt 86 vuotta myöhemmin se on 4 miljardin bisnes, kiitos Neuvostoliiton keksinnön – Tästä tuli kemian Nobel
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/taman-tekniikan-piti-olla-mahdoton-mutta-nyt-86-vuotta-myohemmin-se-on-4-miljardin-bisnes-kiitos-neuvostoliiton-keksinnon-tasta-tuli-kemian-nobel/d8095967-52c2-4179-bf12-3b1e1ffc8b8f
Niin sanotut kvanttipisteet ovat nanokokoisia puolijohdehippusia. Niillä on nykyisin suuri maailmanmarkkina.
Kemian Nobel-palkinto 2023 on myönnetty kvanttipisteiden synteesimenetelmien kehittämisestä. Kvanttipiste tarkoittaa nanometrien tai enintään kymmenien nanometrien kokoluokan puolijohdehippusta.
Ruotsin kuninkaallinen tiedeakatemia jakoi palkinnon tasan Alexey Ekimoville, Louis Brusille ja Moungi Bawendille, jotka tekivät ratkaisevat keksintönsä 1980- ja 1990-luvuilla.
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Nature: Saksalaistutkijat ovat keksineet täysin uudenlaisen moottorin – kyseessä voi olla jopa käsittämätön vallankumous https://www.is.fi/autot/art-2000009905211.html
Uusi moottori on jo todistettu toimivaksi sekä paperilla että laboratorio-olosuhteissa.
SAKSALAISEN Kaiserslautern-Landaun teknisen yliopiston tutkijaryhmä on kehittänyt täysin uuden ja vallankumouksellisen moottorin, joka ei perustu mihinkään perinteiseen moottorienergiaan tai -teknologiaan, kertoo arvostettu tiedejulkaisu Nature.
Uudenlaisen moottorin yksinkertaistettuna ideana on, että se saa voimansa kvanttimekaanisesta ilmiöstä, jossa energiaa vapautuu kvanttihiukkasten saadessa uusia muotoja.
Uutta moottoria on päätetty kutsua Paulin moottoriksi niin sanotun Paulin poissulkemisperiaatteen mukaan – joka on siis samalla koko moottorin toiminnan tieteellinen perusta.
Keksinnön käytännön vaikutukset jäävät vielä arvailtaviksi
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06469-8
Tomi Engdahl says:
Scientists have caught fast-moving hydrogen atoms—the keys to countless biological and chemical reactions—in action.
Researchers catch protons in the act of dissociation with ultrafast ‘electron camera
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-protons-dissociation-ultrafast-electron-camera.html?fbclid=IwAR08BYb3tW6WtTdZnncVVMXgOPLNzJKZ2zOMGBeQqwf86QS7r6mBa6txvxA
Scientists have caught fast-moving hydrogen atoms—the keys to countless biological and chemical reactions—in action.
To get to the answers they were looking for, a team led by SLAC scientist Thomas Wolf, put MeV-UED, SLAC’s ultrafast electron diffraction camera to work. They used gas-phase ammonia, which has three hydrogen atoms attached to a nitrogen atom. The team struck ammonia with ultraviolet light, dissociating, or breaking, one of the hydrogen-nitrogen bonds, then fired a beam of electrons through it and captured the diffracted electrons.
Not only did they catch signals from the hydrogen separating from the nitrogen nucleus, they also caught the associated change in the structure of the molecule. What’s more, the scattered electrons shot off at different angles, so they could separate the two signals.
“Having something that’s sensitive to the electrons and something that’s sensitive to the nuclei in the same experiment is extremely useful,” Wolf said. “If we can see what happens first when an atom dissociates—whether the nuclei or the electrons make the first move to separate—we can answer questions about how dissociation reactions happen.”