IBM creates Corelet programming language to make software that operates like the human brain

At the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held this week in Dallas, researchers from IBM have taken the wraps off a new software front-end for its neuromorphic processor...

New flexible micro-supercapacitor paves way for tiny electronics

Before the age of the smartphone, mobile phone manufacturers were locked in an arms race to see who could create a smaller, but still usable device. Smartphones came along,...

Marvel at the most detailed photos of the Sun ever taken

Astronomers at the Big Bear Solar Observatory have captured the most detailed, visible-light images of the Sun. In the image above, you can see the terrifying detail of a...

ReRAM, the memory tech that will eventually replace NAND flash, finally comes to market

A new memory technology company, Crossbar, has broken cover with a new ReRAM design it claims will allow for commercialization of the technology. The company’s claims aren’t strictly theoretical;...

Tiny twisted magnets could boost hard drive capacity by 20 times

Quantum physicists at the University of Hamburg have finally worked out how to read and write data using skyrmions — tiny twisted knots of magnetism that could allow for...

Self-organizing ‘giant surfactants’ can take chips below 10nm

In the quest for faster processors that generate less heat, engineers have worked hard over the years to perfect more intricate fabrication procedures. Packing more transistors into a smaller...

New material identified by US Navy could revolutionize computer chip heat dissipation

  One of the greatest challenges in semiconductor design is finding ways to move waste heat out of a structure and into whatever dissipation area is designed for it....

Our Destiny Lies Not in Our Stars, But in Our Bacteria

Think you know all about evolution (assuming you accept it)? We have a gut feeling there’s more to it than you think.Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella typhimurium invading...

Earth acts as a giant particle accelerator, creating the dangerous Van Allen radiation belts

One of the many, many worries people had when first sending humans to the Moon had to do with the Van Allen radiation belts. These are layered, two-lobed areas...

Cure cancer completely-cancer treatment

It was in 1988, while presiding over the Antonio parish in Pouso Novo, Brazil,  that Father Romano Zago first learned from the local peoples about a potent all-natural healing...

Google is evidently working on real-time mobile translation tech

Yes, like the Babel fish  Google has its sights set on the future with projects like Google Fiber and Google Glass, and now it's adding real time voice-to-voice translation...

Who’s killing the bees? New study implicates virtually every facet of modern farming

The problem is fairly well known: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is sudden and devastating, wiping out entire hives so quickly that scientists have had a hard time pinpointing the...

7nm, 5nm, 3nm: The new materials and transistors that will take us to the limits of Moore’s law

At Semicon West 2013, the annual mecca for chipmakers and their capital equipment manufacturers, Applied Materials has detailed the road beyond 14nm, all the way down to 3nm and...

MIT successfully implants false memories, may explain why we remember things that didn’t happen

Researchers at MIT have implanted false memories into the brains of mice, causing them to be fearful of an event that didn’t actually occur. This is a very important...

Google Translate adds handwriting support and tries to make sense of your scrawl

Why type it when you can write it? Google Translate users can now scribble symbols using a new handwriting input tool. While this is unlikely to be a faster...

45 years of Intel: but can it keep pace with portability?

Intel celebrates four and a half decades  Intel's 45 today: the Intel Corporation - Intel's a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics, although it was nearly called Moore Noyce after its founders...

How to put humans on Mars, and get them home safely again

Younger generations haven’t experienced staggeringly monumental historic events like older generations have, such as World Wars or landing on the Moon. Our historic events so far — mostly related...

Light stopped completely for a minute inside a crystal: The basis of quantum memory

Scientists at the University of Darmstadt in Germany have stopped light for one minute. For one whole minute, light, which is usually the fastest thing in the known universe...