After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/the-research-pirates-of-the-dark-web/461829/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
Implantable medical devices usually have to trade smarts for size. The hardest thing to shrink isn’t the processor. It’s actually the radio, says Blaauw. Last week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Blaauw and fellow engineers David Wentzloff and Yao Shi showed a prototype injectable radio with a volume of just →
Researchers have discovered a process that takes Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from the air and converts it into methanol (CH3OH) with the help of a homogeneous catalyst. By the way, the idea of converting CO2 into methane is not particularly new. methanol can be used as a replacement for gasoline, a source of energy. http://interestingengineering.com/scientists-find-a-way-to-converts-carbon-dioxide-from-air-into-fuel/ Posted from WordPress for →
Electrons move fast, especially within an atom. But they have their limits, and those limits might put a top speed on future optoelectronic circuits. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/fastest-light-pulses-show-that-electrons-react-slowly-to-light Posted from WordPress for Android →
It’s been four-and-a-half years since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident. Today, a report in The New York Times notes that, in that time, nobody has died from radiation directly. Nobody’s even been “sickened.” While that seems miraculous, there were, however, 1,600 stress-related deaths in the aftermath of the meltdown https://www.inverse.com/article/6336-panic-caused-more-death-than-radiation-at-fukushima Posted from WordPress for Android →
According to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, emeritus professor at Princeton University, bullshit is something that is constructed absent of any concern for the truth. This is quite different from lying, which implies a deep concern for the truth (namely, its subversion). Bullshit is particularly pernicious since the bullshitter adopts an epistemic stance that allows for →
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Could water evaporating provide power? Yes. Biological systems are known to convert energy generated from the evaporation of water confined within nanoscale compartments into muscle-like mechanical work. Researchers Create Evaporation-Powered Motor article tells that scientists designed shape-changing engineered composites of bacterial spores and a polymer that used an evaporation-driven process to power locomotion and generate electricity. →
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