ë Crystal creates table-top fusion --
It won't solve our energy crisis, but could help treat cancer.
ë By using a larger tungsten tip, cooling the crystal to cryogenic temperatures,
and constructing a target containing tritium, the researchers believe they can scale
up the observed neutron production 1000 times, to more than 106 neutrons per second.û
- Note, this is PyroFusion, in a pyroelectric crystal, not cold fusion.
Ordinary? [emphasis above supplied] The asymmetrical pyroelectrical effect is hardly ordinary.
Get this ... it works inside "lithium tantalate crystals".
Gene Roddenberry was closer than anyone suspected with his Dilitium Crystals for the AntiMatter drive!
- New Scientist,
and Nature blurb [Picture!] and
Nature Article
via TheReg
and SlashDot.
and AIP PNU
Supplementar Information
and maybe author's site after Slashdotting subsides.
ëRe-discovered ivory billed woodpecker still faces challenge to survival
The National Wildlife Refuge Association (NWRA) today hailed the announcement in
today's Science Express that a thought-to-be extinct ivory-billed woodpecker has been
discovered at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, but expressed concern about
its chances for survival. û
ëObservers in eastern Arkansas have reported at least eight
independent sightings of a bird that appears to be an ivory-billed woodpecker,
a species widely thought to be extinct. A video clip of one bird, though blurry,
shows key features, including the size and markings,
indicating that the bird is indeed an ivory-billed woodpecker, according to
John W. Fitzpatrick of Cornell University and coauthors of a paper released online today by Science.û
-
via NPR
(Prior story, 2002);
Ivorybill Homepage, via
Cornell University News Service
via EurekAlert 1;
National Wildlife Refuge Association
via EurakAlert 2;
American Association for the Advancement of Science's
Science Magazine article
EurekAlert 3 with painting
