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Science and Nature Blogs from SalarGolestanian.com
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Not long before we could practice Kung Fu with an Industrial Terminator Robot
By Salar Golestanian @ 12 May 2011 ::  |
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The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) is taking place from May 9 to 13, in Shanghai International Conference Center with the theme of "Better Robots, Better Life", an expectation that the ever growing technology in robotics and automation will help build a better human society.
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Intel's 3D tech redefines the transistor - Allowing us to Sustain Moore's Law
By Salar Golestanian @ 05 May 2011 ::  |
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I recently discussed "Is Moore's Law dead? What happens if CPU speed does not keep up with our demands?" in my blog. Where doubling the number of transistors on a silicon device every two years was no longer possible. This is because the 22-nanometer limit in semiconductor substrate could not be reduced with current Transistor Technology. However, with Transistors entering the third dimension, this limit is no longer relevant as we can carry on doubling the number of transistors on a silicon device every two years in the third dimension. This is revealed in the latest news release by Intel.
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Have they found the God Particle at the Swiss "Large Hadron Collider"?
By Salar Golestanian @ 25 Apr 2011 :: |
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A leaked document according to Daily Telergraph contains unconfirmed reports that one of the detectors at the Large Hardon Collider at CERN near Geneva had picked up signals that could be the long sought after particle called 'Higgs Boson'. Last week we saw at Fermi lab the experiment that contradicted the existence of Higgs Boson I reported here
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So what has happened to the Grand Unified Theory? May the 'One Force' be with you!
By Salar Golestanian @ 19 Apr 2011 :: |
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Unifying gravity with the other three interactions ( the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions) would provide a theory of everything (TOE), rather than a GUT Grand Unified Theory. GUTs are often seen as an intermediate step towards a TOE. And now suddenly on April 6th, Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at 'technicolour' force. Last week at Tevatron collider scientists spotted evidence of new particles that might point to a previously unidentified force of nature or yet another force, "The Fifth Force"
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Two Great Short Films Giving Dads ideas this Easter Holiday
By Salar Golestanian @ 29 Mar 2011 :: |
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I loved this article in Mashable by Amy-Mae with 7 Superb Short Films Shot with Cellphones. I am amazed at the quality of some of the work done by creative people using their cell phones and edited with low cost programmes like Adobe Premier, Element - The two that I really loved were the Space Balloon and the Commuter.
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Discovery arrives at space station for final time
By Salar Golestanian @ 27 Feb 2011 :: |
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Discovery and the STS-133 astronauts arrived at the International Space Station Saturday afternoon, bringing a logistics module and Robonaut 2. The mission's first spacewalk is set for Monday. It's not science fiction. A humanoid robot is headed to space on the shuttle Discovery. Additionally, fascinating research and technology is also aboard with 5 investigations for the crew to perform and 24 studies with hardware or samples.
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Watch the launch of ATV-2 Johannes Kepler live
By Salar Golestanian @ 15 Feb 2011 :: |
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ESA’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle will be launched on today. Watch it here live. This flight is representing the third of five back-to-back launches to the International Space Station in a 2-month period, the European Space Agency stands ready to the launch the ATV-2 (Automated Transfer Vehicle 2) spacecraft on a multi-month mission to deliver thousands of pounds of supplies to the leading orbital outpost. The mission will also hold the distinction of being flown to orbit on the 200th Ariane rocket launch, the 56th launch for the workhorse Ariane 5 variant. Nasaspaceflight.com has great pages for the details of this mission.
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Volunteers in "Mars 500" Project begin virtual Mars 'space walk'
By Salar Golestanian @ 14 Feb 2011 :: |
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Members of the Mars 500 crew wave before being locked into the isolation facility in Moscow in June 2010. Two volunteers from Italy and Russia will step onto a sandy mock-up of the Martian surface at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT) after a gruelling eight-month journey - all without ever leaving a Moscow research center.
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HealthCare Innovation Expo 2011 - showing some great Medical Advances in Virtual Worlds
By Salar Golestanian @ 04 Feb 2011 :: |
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Healthcare Innovation Expo 2011 is the premier event for health and social care commissioners and providers. With over 150 seminars, 100 speakers and 250 exhibitors all featuring high impact innovations is showing some great examples in Virtual World. Imperial Collage London will show great use of Virtual Worlds in Healthcare on 9-10 March 2011.
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Two of Today's Futuristic Medical Technologies
By Salar Golestanian @ 26 Jan 2011 :: |
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Scifiwood.com is built with the founding idea that Science Fiction of yesterday becomes the technology of today. We have another two example now with ReWalk both develops and markets walk restoration devices for people with lower limb disabilities, Including paralysis. And another another amazing tool for peaple with hearing loss with "The CapTel 800i" that provides real-time, word-for-word captions of what is said over the phone on a bright screen built into the phone.
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Stargazing Live needs you this week! - BBC Two, 3-5 Jan, 2011
By Salar Golestanian @ 03 Jan 2011 :: |
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Professor Brian Cox made astrophysics sexy in Wonders of the Solar System, and now he is back for this three-night live show exploring the stars. From their eyrie in the University of Manchester's Lovell Telescope, Brian gives co-host Dara O Briain (a self-confessed frustrated astronomer) a crash course in astronomy, while gadget-obsessed Jonathan Ross goes back to basics as he learns to navigate the night sky using a pencil and paper. First Blog post on Scifiwood
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Fulfilling destiny, yesterday's Sci-Fi, today's commercial products.
By Salar Golestanian @ 03 Jan 2011 :: |
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With a new year just starting, it is a good time to list some of my favorite products that were only ideas at some point in the past and now they have come true. Here is a list to name a few, Submarine, iPad, iPhone or Laser Guns, where all of these were Science Fiction that has turned out to be accurate predictions. In the next decade there are going to be more Sci-Fi turning Practical Science.
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Did someone say Moore's Law is dead? New chip making PCs 20 times faster!
By Salar Golestanian @ 30 Dec 2010 :: |
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Scottish scientists have built a 1,000-core processor, claiming that this chip could make desktop computers 20 times faster. For example, currently the fastest pc runs an Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition which is about 6 core. However, Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell have created a processor which effectively contains more than a thousand cores on a single chip. Original Post in Salar Golestanian Blogs.
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Did someone say Moore's Law is dead? New chip making PCs 20 times faster!
By Salar Golestanian @ 30 Dec 2010 :: |
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Scottish scientists have built a 1,000-core processor, claiming that this chip could make desktop computers 20 times faster. For example, currently the fastest pc runs an Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition which is about 6 core. However, Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell have created a processor which effectively contains more than a thousand cores on a single chip.
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Is Moore's Law dead? What happens if CPU speed does not keep up with our demands?
By Salar Golestanian @ 18 Dec 2010 :: |
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A few months ago Gordon Moore stated that More Law is dead. It is nearly 40 years since the publication of his law which states the transistor density on integrated circuits double about every two years. This is quite obvious as at one point one will find we cannot build a transistor with just a small number of atoms.
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Is Moore's Law dead? What happens if CPU speed does not keep up with our demands?
By Salar Golestanian @ 17 Dec 2010 :: |
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A few months ago Gordon Moore stated that More Law is dead. It is nearly 40 years since the publication of his law which states the transistor density on integrated circuits double about every two years. This is quite obvious as at one point one will find we cannot build a transistor with just a small number of atoms.
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Very clever Quick, easy, 3D model from 2D flickr images of a building
By Salar Golestanian @ 08 Dec 2010 :: |
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A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina and the Swiss university ETH-Zurich have teamed up to develop a system for creating 3D models of famous landmarks using photos from photo sharing websites like Flickr. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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Google is doing its bit to save the planet. So what is Google Earth Engine?
By Salar Golestanian @ 04 Dec 2010 :: |
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Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google, and this week it has blogged about its shiny new tool at the COP 16 climate conference in Cancun. It is a database that will help scientists and conservationists track and analyse changes in Earth's environment, and hopefully slow deforestation as well as any new forestation projects going on around the globe.Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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Early universe recreated in Large Hadron Collider was superhot liquid
By Salar Golestanian @ 29 Nov 2010 :: |
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Having a lot of interest for Space Physics, and therefore I try hard to follow what is happening at LHC and simplifying the language used in the communications coming out of LHC is a great help to me so I like to share them. The LHC is the world's biggest ever physics experiment, and by studying conditions close to those just after the big bang, it could solve some of science's deepest mysteries. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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The big physics-y news story of the moment is the trapping of antihydrogen
By Salar Golestanian @ 26 Nov 2010 :: |
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Antimatter was first predicted1 in 1931, by Dirac. Ever since then there has been 100s of Science Fiction books and Movies made with this concept at its heart. StarTrek Enterprise Engine run with Antimatter. In reality the work with high-energy antiparticles is now commonplace, and anti-electrons are used regularly in the medical technique of positron emission tomography scanning. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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Houdini fly inflates head to break walls
By Salar Golestanian @ 25 Nov 2010 :: |
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World of insects are truly fascination. Watch a fly inflate its head to break through a wall and escape. This is just a great article by one of my favourite magazine New Scientist. read it before it disappears by end of the months. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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