Thursday 24 December 2015

Hendrik Schon: Physicist Or Fraud

The scandal of Hendrik Schon is probably the most fascinating one that has surfaced lately in the field of physics.

Jan Hendrik Schon was born in 1970 and hails from Germany. He is a physicist who earned worldwide recognition and fame for his research and breakthroughs especially in the branch of nanotechnology. After a series of investigations all those breakthroughs turned out to be hoax. In 1997, after receiving his Ph.D. from University of Konstanz, he was employed by Bell Labs.

In 2001, Schon published his research in Nature magazine. In his research, Schon claimed that he had manufactured a transistor on molecular level. He explained that he used a slim layer of organic dye molecules to produce a virtual electric circuit which would behave as a transistor when current is passed through it.

Schon’s research work was termed as a huge breakthrough as it would start a new era of transistor manufacturing based on organic electronics rather than the traditional silicon technology. The implications would have been of immense proportions as it would have helped radically reduce the size and cost of electronic chips.

Due to his efforts Hendrik Schon was awarded the Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize and the Braunschweig Prize in 2001. In 2002, he received the Outstanding Young Investigator Award by the Materials Research Society.

Soon after the publications of Schon’s research, the scientists in the physics community began questioning Schon’s experiments and results. A professor of Princeton University detected that Schon’s two experiments conducted at different temperatures had same results. Some other physicists also noticed carbon copy results of different experiments which casted a doubt on the credibility of the research. And so after a series of allegations Lucent Technologies decided to launch an official investigation of Schon’s claims.

In September 2002, the inquiry commission presented its report and claimed that Schon was found guilty of misconduct on 24 instances. They also suggested that the results have been reused in different experiments and even some of the data was not even generated from observations rather they were mathematically calculated.

Schon in turn claimed that he has in some cases exaggerated the results but he definitely got similar results. He also accepted that some of the mistakes in his research would have been unintentional.


After the becoming public of the report all of Schon’s research papers were withdrawn and his degree was cancelled by University of Konstanz. He appealed against the verdict but was rejected last year in October.

Sony Ps3 Error Frustration For Players

Past few hours have been extremely frustrating for the SonyPS3 owners, as the Sunday morning welcomed the Sony PS3 users with an error message. According to the reports Sony PS3 users received error “8001050F” on their consoles after they tried to sign in into the Play Station Network, whereas many users have also unable to play games in offline mode too.

While several forums posted the reports about Sony SP3 and its network problem, Sony Corporation it’s self is aware of the problem and issued statement asking for apologies from the users and stating that they are working their best to restore the systems and services.

It has been speculated that the Sony PS3 new model slimline is not affected with this problem; hence it is not difficult to understand that there is no problem with the service itself, but it is related to the internal calendar or clock of the machine. It could be the reason for the entire problem involving leap year as it occurred on the last day of February.

According to our information the Sony PS3 saved date will be restored by the organization, however it is unclear that already won trophies by the users are recoverable or not.

It is advised to the Sony PS3 users not to try to use pre-slim models until further notice. It has been said by the Sony Organization on the twitter that all the information related to the error problem will be provided to the users through micro blog TWITTER.


So stay connected, and wait for further information.

Chicxulub Crater: Meteor impact wiped out the dinosaurs race

A team of international scientists concluded their 20-year research by stating that the dinosaurs were done in by a meteor strike which resulted in the Chicxulub crater.

The Chicxulub crater is a prehistoric crater in the Gulf of Mexico. It is near the Chicxulub town in Yucataan Peninsula, Mexico.

The Chicxulub crater was first discovered in late in late 1970’s by a geophysicist Glen Penfield while searching for oil reserves. Though initially there was no strong evidence that the crater was formed due to an asteroid impact but samples of shocked quartz and tektites collected from the site strongly hinted that it was indeed formed by an impact.

The Chicxulub crater measures more than 110 miles in diameter while the collided asteroid is estimated to be around 7 miles in diameter. The colossal comet is estimated to be travelling at 10 times the speed of a bullet when it smashed into the Earth’s surface creating worldwidemayhem.

The energy released by the impact is approximated to be a billion times that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings which might have triggered various volcanic eruptions, Tsunamis and greater than 11-magnitude earthquakes.

Observations and calculations suggest the crater might have been formed around 65 million years ago and resulted in wiping out nearly all the majority dominant species.

The group of scientists rejected the claim that volcanic activity in India caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction stating that the incident resulted in destroying land and water eco-systems which could only be possible due to an asteroid impact.

Astonishingly, while the impact was a devastation for the whole planet it resulted in giving mammals the reins of the world and proving to be the most pivotal moment in human history.


The research was published in today’s Science journal.

Kl Detector Detect Key-Logger Activity

KL Detector “Version 1.3” published by Yohanes Aristianto on Snap Files website is a 37 kilobyte file, which detects the key-logger activity on your computer. KL Detector application furnishes a way in which you could find if your activities on your computer is being recorded by key-logger application or not.

KL Detector finds and discloses the hidden log file created by key-logger application on your computer hence scans for any suspicious and untrusting action during a trial period that you have to initiate. What KL Detector does in the test period is it asks an individual to use the keyboard for sometime such as “Type Text” so that could monitor your computer to find any suspicious hidden logging activity.

Kl Detector
KL Detector is programmed for occasional use only and cannot be run as a permanent running application, because any normal computer action could cause false positive.

KL Detector does not detect those changes in the key-logger log files that occur during the installation of this software, but it does find the suspicious actions and warns the user about it.

During the installation of different programs on a computer’s hard drive software’s creates unseem log files, KL Detector finds those logs and informs the use about them.

The best use for KL Detector is in public computers, so that you could detect the key-loggers before submitting your credit card and other information that could damage to you.


KL Detector that is launched in 2006 is a freeware and works with windows XP/NT and 2000 as well. KL-Detector does not contain any harmful spyware or adware that could disturb you computer.

T-Mobile Customer Service Wins Accolades!

T-mobile Customer Service department has now been officially nominated as the top service providers according to a customer satisfaction survey. T-mobile Customer Service department took the honor after a close competition with Verizon. This new honor of T-Mobile is a reflection of continuous struggle of the company to make advancement in the technology as well as to maintain its quality customer service.

T-Mobile-Customer-Service
The customer service survey was conducted by a research firm called Vocal Laboratories. The survey was titled 2010 Wireless RetailsSatisfaction Study. The survey ranked T-Mobile first in terms of the sales experience as well as the customer services. The survey used four points to determine the rankings of the telecomm wireless mobile companies. The various parts of the survey included: Sales staff, franchise facilities and display, prices, and promotions.

The top ranking in the customer service survey is a huge achievement for T-Mobile who has been struggling hard against other three major wireless companies in U.S. T-Mobile is trying to catch with the other three leading wireless networks and has introduced several improvements in its technologies. Just recently, T-Mobile announced to take a leap and roll out several new wireless devices as well as expansion in its HSPA+ network.


T-Mobile has made a later move, as its Big 3 competitors have already moved to 4G network implementation but HSPA+ would keep the company competitive in terms of technology. The new technology may even make T-Mobile to surpass its competitors for a short while. T-Mobile’s HSPA+ would allow the company to expand its high speed network to its customers by the end of this year.

The Samsung Epic 4G, ready to launch

The Samsung Epic 4G launched on 31st August 2010 with the introductory price of $250 in two years binding with SprintNextel.

Samsung Epic 4g
The Samsung Epic 4G is a Smartphone with a physical sliding keyboard and Android 2.1 processor. The service providing company, Sprint has stated that they started booking orders from 13th August and regular sales began from 31st August.

The Samsung Company is more concerned about the inventory of the Samsung Epic 4G.

Joe Mandacina, the spokesman of the company stated that they were waiting to manage their inventory and it was one of the reasons to delay because supply is the most important part of sales and they don’t want their customers got embraced and frustrated.

According to the analysts, the price of Samsung Epic 4G is very high as compare to its competitors. The price is $50 more than the Evo which features 4.3 inches touch screen whereas Epic 4G features 4 inches touch screen.

The analysts are also saying that the QWERTY keyboard of Epic 4G may attract the blackberry users and ones who wants to shift to a big screen mobile with physical keyboard.


The Sprint people are saying that they will be selling the Samsung Epic 4G through their direct sales channels and they will promote the handset which can be used as business purpose as well, to document capturing, code scanning, uploading and streaming of videos and other data for business purposes.

Dongfeng 21D, ‘the East Wind’ launched

The most populated country of the world having the largest military on earth, China has just strengthen their defense mechanism by adding yet another smart, intelligent, efficient and most importantly, economical missile in the world.
Dongfeng 21D
Dongfeng 21D is a newly developed missile by China which can mark up to 1500 kilometers to meet its target. Dongfeng 21D has the ability to strike moving objects and it is not very good news for the other Powers of the World because China is the first country to have such an advance and accurate missile like Donggenf 21D.

The military planners and think tank of the UnitedStates of America are very concerned about the Dongfeng 21 D missile because it can destroy the US moving aircraft career with perfection.
The US aircraft carriers are known for their best defensive and armor system but new Dongfeng 21 D has the ability to go through the defensive system to destroy the aircraft carrier.

The military analysts are suggesting that Dongfong 21 D has been launched to restrict the United States of America to enter and move through the ocean nearby China. China was very concerned about the presence of the military of the United States in the South China Sea, Yellow Sea and EastSea.

Roben Gates, the secretary of the defense stated last year that Dongfeng 2 D had the ability to restrict the free ocean movement and it could disturb the US military planning.