Monthly Archives for June 2005
ITER Now Scheduled for France
Well, I guess the French can kiss that American money goodbye on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. The Japanese got some perks out of letting the Frogs have the reactor ($500 million worth of contracts for constructing ITER could go … Continue reading
Nanotech Underwear
This is not one of the products of the future that I was looking forward to, but if it gets rid of that sweaty boxer feeling (if you live/have lived in Texas, and you’re a guy, naturally, you know what … Continue reading
Smallest Man-Made Organic Particles Created
Don’t feel like paraphrasing. Let’s just block quote – Scientists who have created the smallest precisely crafted organic particles are billing their breakthrough as a potential boon to medicine and technology.The tiny structures could one day be used as vehicles … Continue reading
Jack Kilby is Dead
A day or so late, but the inventor of the semiconductor chip is dead. Godspeed, Mr. Kilby.