Sony Develops High Frame Rate Single Lens 3D Camera Technology

Sony announced the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording natural and smooth 3D images of even fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at 240fps.

This technology combines a newly developed optical system for single lens 3D camera which captures the left and right images simultaneously, together with existing high frame rate (HFR) recording technology to realize 240fps 3D filming.

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Researchers to make Dunaliella Algae as a Fuel Source

The researchers at North Carolina State University are working to make Dunaliella algae as a fuel source because they grow quickly and can be grown throughout the year, they don’t use up freshwater supplies and can be cultivated in areas where they won’t compete with traditional food crops, such as corn or soybeans.

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Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone

While attached to an EEG amplifier, the first person would generate and transmit a series of binary digits, imagining moving their left arm for zero and their right arm for one. The second person was also attached to an EEG amplifier and their PC would pick up the stream of binary digits and flash an LED lamp at two different frequencies, one for zero and the other one for one. The pattern of the flashing LEDS is too subtle to be picked by the second person, but it is picked up by electrodes measuring the visual cortex of the recipient.

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NASA Tests Load Limits for Ares I Rocket Main Parachute

NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. From the back of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft, researchers dropped a 72,000-pound payload -- tying the record for the heaviest load ever extracted from the aircraft during flight -- from an altitude of 25,000 feet.

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Race for Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale

A team of researchers from UT Dallas, Clemson University and Yale University are using science on the nanoscale to address one of the most elusive challenges in physics - the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity. With that as the ultimate goal, the team is working to develop superconducting wires made from nanotubes that carry high currents at the temperature of liquid nitrogen, or higher.

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Atomtronic transistor and diode could advance quantum computing

What if atoms could be used to perform the functions currently the province of electronic devices? The goal of atomtronics is to do just that by creating analogues to the common items found in electronic devices. Ron Pepino, a graduate student at JILA and the University of Colorado, believes that he and his colleagues have found a way to create the atomtronic versions of diode and transistor circuits. The work of Pepino, Cooper, Anderson and Holland is described in Physical Review Letters: "Atomtronic Circuits of Diodes and Transistors."

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Researchers identify mechanism that helps bacteria avoid destruction in cells

Infectious diseases currently cause about one-third of all human deaths worldwide, more than all forms of cancer combined. Advances in cell biology and microbial genetics have greatly enhanced understanding of the cause and mechanisms of infectious diseases. Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and Yale University reported in PLoS ONE, a way in which intracellular pathogens exploit the biological attributes of their hosts in order to escape destruction.

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Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years

With the speed of computers so regularly seeing dramatic increases in their processing speed, it seems that it shouldn't be too long before the machines become infinitely fast -- except they can't. A pair of physicists has shown that computers have a speed limit as unbreakable as the speed of light. If processors continue to accelerate as they have in the past, we'll hit the wall of faster processing in less than a century.

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How Your Body Packs Two Meters of DNA Into a Six-Micron Cell Nucleus

Body's cells can work with two meters of stringy DNA into a tiny nucleus without making a knot. The secret is a structure called a fractal globule, according to a research paper to be published tomorrow in the journal Science.

First, the researchers found that a cell's DNA is organized in two compartments: an "off" area and an "on" area. Genes that aren't being used are tightly packed into the globule that acts like a filing cabinet, storing lots of info for later use.

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Shell's New Ships Will Dwarf Everything on the High Seas

The Floating Liquid Natural Gas (FLNG) ships would weigh in at 600,000 metric tons and extend 480 meters long, the largest ships ever built. The Register reports that only the decommissioned French Batillus-class tankers could claim being a tad larger by an alternative gross tonnage method, but adds that the FLNG ships still win out by most measures.

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Heat Can Travel Only One Way Through New Japanese Diode

Japanese researchers have developed a new diode that only transmits heat currents in one direction, and they think it could represent a new future for thermal computing.
Similar work has succeeded with individual electrons in superconductors and in lone nanotubes, according to Technology Review. But this represents the first time anyone has managed the trick in a bulk solid, which in this case consists of two types of perovskite cobalt oxides.

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Philips announces breakthrough in fully digital silicon photomultiplier technology

Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has developed innovative digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon counting in a wide range of ultra-low-light-level applications such as medical imaging and in particular positron emission tomography (PET), in-vitro diagnostic tests such as DNA sequencing, high-energy physics, night vision, and other applications that currently use photomultiplier tubes.

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U.S. Army Future Follows New Doctrine

"Everything in war is very simple," wrote Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz. "But the simplest thing is difficult." Put another way, a soldier's job in combat is to kill or capture the enemy, but how a soldier goes about this is rarely simple, and with new battlefield technologies, the ways in which this goal can be accomplished have expanded--and been complicated­--tremendously.

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DARPA Works Toward DoD Energy Independence

Scientists are working to create energy self-sufficiency for the Defense Department, the nation’s largest single consumer of energy, a defense expert said.

“Energy has always been an important point in the military. You can go back into history and look at fodder to feed the horses in the Napoleonic Wars, and you can look at today in Afghanistan where energy is a key enabler, or in some cases, a key limitation,” said Barbara McQuiston, special assistant for energy at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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AUSA: Future 'aerial ISR family' revealed

Nearly four years after the Aerial Common Sensor program flopped, the army is back with a bold new proposal to adopt a five-layer "aerial ISR family" featuring all-new hybrid airships, Bombardier Q400s, Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350s (aka: MC-12Ws) and two classes of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

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Russia Plans Shift in Nuclear Doctrine: Reports

Russia will shift its policy on the "preventive" use of nuclear arms in the next version of its main military strategy document, a top Russian security official was quoted as saying Oct. 8.
"Changes in the positions on the option of carrying out preventive nuclear strikes will go into the new military doctrine," said Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the national security council, Russian news agencies reported.

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U.S. 'Bunker Buster' Bomb Ready Soon: Pentagon

The Pentagon said Oct. 7 that a giant "bunker buster" bomb will be ready within months, adding a powerful weapon to the U.S. arsenal amid tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
The 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrator (MOP) is designed to knock out fortified sites buried deep underground, like those used by Iran and North Korea to protect its nuclear work.

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$133M to Lockheed Martin for US Army Aerostat-based Warning System

Lockheed Martin received a $133 million award to provide the US Army with 8 additional Persistent Threat Detection Systems (PTDS) to support coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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