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Article | 10/06/2011 IBM pioneers graphene-based integrated circuits
IBM has made what it claims is the first graphene-based integrated circuit, using many of the same techniques now used to produce silicon circuits. Th...
Article | 3/06/2011 Caltech researchers scale up DNA computing
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have built what they claim is the world's largest computational circuit based on DNA (deoxyrib...
Article | 26/05/2011 So long and goodbye, Spirit rover
NASA is ending attempts to contact the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after communications stopped on March 22, 2010.
Article | 14/05/2011 Humanaquarium blends art and tech, attracts crowds
The creative lighting, strange sounds and odd look of the project attracted large crowds at the Computer Human Interaction conference. Called the Huma...
Article | 11/05/2011 Friction control makes touchscreens sticky or slippery
A prototype touchscreen on show at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Vancouver can change from slippery to sticky depending on what's...
Article | 11/05/2011 Invisible touch interface creates multitouch 'force field'
Using infrared sensors like the ones on television remote controls, Texas A&M University students presented an inexpensive multitouch system at th...
Article | 11/05/2011 Flexible, e-ink mobile to rival smartphones in coming years
Researchers from <a href="http://www.queensu.ca/">Queens University</a> presented a flexible, e-ink display at the <a href="http://www.chi2011.org/">C...
Article | 18/04/2011 Quantum Teleportation Is A Reality
Scientists have finally done it! In what looks like an incredibly complicated setup scientists have not just figured out how to transport information...
Article | 30/03/2011 Nuclear crisis stopped time in Japan
The problems at Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear plant have had an unexpected impact on the country's ability to keep time: a transmitter that sends the na...
Article | 22/03/2011 Inside a Japanese nuclear power station
The battle to tame the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has filled television screens for the last few days. The massive earthquake and ...
Article | 17/03/2011 Japanese quake may shorten days
Japan's March 11 earthquake may eventually result in shorter days, according to NASA scientists.
Article | 19/02/2011 New anti-laser tech paves way for optical computing
Yale University scientists have built what they call the first anti-laser, a device that can cancel out beams of light generated by a laser.
Article | 17/02/2011 IBM Watson vanquishes human Jeopardy foes
Wrapping up a three-day run on the Jeopardy game show, IBM's Watson computer has beaten two former champions in a historic match of man versus machine...
Article | 27/01/2011 CS pioneer Knuth releases long-awaited textbook
Trailing the last volume he published by 38 years, computer science pioneer Donald Knuth has released the first part of volume four of his widely resp...
Article | 15/01/2011 Researchers: Ugly fonts aid content memorization
Having difficulty getting your message across? Try an uglier font.