Archive for 2010
DOE dedicates 24M supercomputing hours for lithium–air batteries
The DOE announced that 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available at Argonne…
Read MoreArt and advanced materials meet
Ocean of Light from squidsoup on Vimeo. Squidsoup is back! Titled “Oceans of Light,” this time, the groups latest artwork…
Read MoreDOE names nuclear waste commission
President Obama spoke about a renewed push for nuclear-based energy solutions in his SOTU speech, and Friday DOE Secretary Chu…
Read MoreBrosnan reports on EMA 2010 conference
Kristen has posted a video, too!
Read MoreBrosnan added to revamped GE blog
GE recently overhauled its blog and its worth stopping by to see the goodies. The blog, called “Edison’s Desk,” looks…
Read MoreX-rays reported to trigger crystal formation
A team from Northwestern University reports in the new issue of Science about the role that X-rays can play in crystal…
Read MoreVideo(s) of the week: Ceramic matrix composite brakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l09UXQYEQKo Credit: NikolasKK; YouTube I’m currently in Daytona Beach, Florida for the ICACC’10 conference. One of the keynote speakers was…
Read MoreMonday materials music
By homey Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices. He was everyone’s favorite 4th-grade teacher.
Read MoreFord to pump $450M into battery technology for electric cars
Having just announced that they will be spending $550 million converting a Detroit SUV factory into a hybrid and electric…
Read MoreResearchers build first nanodragster
Live Science reported that researchers have built a new super-small “nanodragster” that could speed up efforts to craft molecular machines.…
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