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04.09.10Scientists Discover How to Turn Ordinary T-Shirts Into Body ArmorVia Boing Boing via Ecouterre via USC: A simple cotton T-shirt may one day be converted into tougher, more comfortable body armor for soldiers or police officers. Researchers at the University of South Carolina, collaborating with others from China and Switzerland, drastically increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third hardest material on earth. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide, the same material used to protect tanks... The scientists started with plain, white T-shirts that were cut into thin strips and dipped into a boron solution. The strips ...
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04.09.10Memristors: Brain Emulation Scale Hardware by 2025Via Next Big Thing: Memristors have similar physical behavior as synapses in the human brain. Production scale memristor memory with tens of billions of memristors should mean that memristors that mimic over one hundred billion synapses could only be a few years away. The human brain has one hundred trillion synapses. A human scale emulation of one hundred trillion synapses might only take one hundred near term memristor chips. Having comparable hardware in terms of numbers of similar components does not mean you can make them behave like a brain, but getting hardware with the right number of neurons and synapses ...
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04.07.10Earthquake Lifts Layer of Dust Off a Mountain RangeVia NBC San Diego: Brothers traveling in Mexico during Sunday's deadly earthquake photographed a surreal sight: The power of the quake lifting a layer of dust off a mountain range. The dramatic photographs were shot by Roberto and Adrian Marquez Marquez just after the 3:40 p.m magnitude 7.2 quake. The pictures show the area around La Rumorosa, the highest point in Tecate. Link
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03.30.10Large Hadron Collider Has First Successful RunVia the BBC: Scientists working on the European machine have smashed beams of protons together at energies that are 3.5 times higher than previously achieved. Tuesday's milestone marks the beginning of work that could lead to the discovery of fundamental new physics. Link
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03.17.101-Billionth Scale Model Of Enterprise-DVia LikeCOOL.com: This Starship Enterprise NCC-1701D of Star Trek measures just 8.8-micrometers long, this 1-billionth scale model of the USS Enterprise "was made with a 30 kV Ga+ focused-ion- beam CVD using phenanthrene gas by Takayuki Hoshino and Shinji Matsui of the Himeji Institute of Technology." Link
