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Rainbow Trapping in Light Pulses
A group of scientists at Nanjing University in China have shown how a rather wide spectrum of light—a rainbow of radiation—can be trapped in a single structure....
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Autonomous Cars Could Let Drivers Check Email
Oxford University researchers are developing autonomous vehicle technology that enables drivers to check their email while the car drives itself.
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Japanese Supercomputer Ranked 1st in Little Green500 List
Japan's Grape-DR supercomputer tops the June 2010 edition of Green500.org's Little Green500 list, which ranks the performance per unit power consumption of smaller...
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Meeting Consumers' Hd Demands With a Faster Algorithm
Lehigh University researchers have developed signal-processing algorithms that enable handheld devices to display high-definition images.
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Flexible Organic Transistor Memory Looks Promising For Future Electronics
South Korean engineers have developed a flexible memory based on an organic transistor, which they say could be integrated, along with transistors and logic circuits...
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Project to Quadruple Solar Energy Output on Furman Campus
Furman University will use a $340,000 grant for a new installation of solar panels that are expected to quadruple the solar energy output on campus.
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Afghan Deaths Highlight Lack of Tracking Tech
At about 4 a.m. Wednesday, NATO warplanes dropped precision-guided munitions on a band of Afghans who seemed like militants in the provincial district of Andor....
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Novel Ion Trap with Optical Fiber Could Link Atoms and Light in Quantum Networks
Physicists at NIST have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted by single ions, allowing quantum information stored in...
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The Achilles' Heel of Your Computer
Device drivers account for most crashes and even introduce security problems; a new testing tool could provide an early warning.
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Insect-Like Robot Crawls Into Microrobot Contenders' Ring
University of Washington engineers have built an insect-like robot with hundreds of tiny legs. The UW model can carry more than seven times its own weight and move...
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The Challenge of Molecular Communication
Research led by Ph.D. student Sachin Kadloor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are investigating how much information can be exchanged via molecular...
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Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips
Intel engineers have created computer processors with circuits capable of random behavior, a development that could lead to secure cryptography keys.
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Barrier to Faster Integrated Circuits May Be Surmounted, Scientists Say
Integrated circuits are constantly being made smaller, faster, and cheaper, but circuit scaling is perpetually in danger of hitting a wall that must be maneuvered...
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Sony Says 535,000 Vaio Laptops at Risk of Overheating
More than half a million Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said. A bug in the...
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Beyond the Petaflop: DARPA Wants Quintillion-Speed Computers
DARPA announced an initiative to realize a quintillion calculations/second computer to "meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher...
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Japan to Build 2.4 Petaflop Supercomputer
The Tokyo Institute of Technology will build Japan's first 2.4-petaflop supercomputer, the TSUBAME 2.0, a world-class research tool for users in both the industrial...
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Computer Modeling to Build Better Mud Bricks
University of Illinois at Chicago assistant professor Craig Foster received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create computer models that analyze physical...
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In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline
After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual...
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Lizard-Like Robot Can 'swim' Through Sand
Inspired by the sandfish lizard, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating with Northwestern University's Paul Umbanhowar to develop...
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