A new nanoscale apparatus developed at JILA — a tiny gold beam whose 40 million vibrations per second are measured by hopping electrons — offers the potential for a 500-fold increase in the speed of scanning tunneling ...
Nanophysics
Mar 16, 2007
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Taking out the trash is no simple chore on the International Space Station, where some junk is carefully hurled into the Earth's atmosphere to burn.
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2007
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Micro-electro-mechanical systems, popularly referred to as MEMS, in small electronic devices often fail because of adhesion and stiction – the attractive force between the surfaces of interacting parts. University of Arkansas ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 16, 2007
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Lexmark's C524 and C534 printing platforms will support Mentalix's CardPrint Application Program Interface, which will allow law enforcement agencies to print color imaging and fingerprint images onto blank card stocks.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 16, 2007
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A roomful of hackers, CIOs and CSOs agree that Microsoft's given us the most secure version of Windows yet, but their approval is served up with a garnish of "excepts," "howevers" and "althoughs."
Software
Mar 16, 2007
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Cisco's plans to buy Webex will create a complicated relationship with Microsoft where the two giants must both cooperate and compete.
Business
Mar 16, 2007
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Edward G. Amoroso, chief security officer for AT&T, says most of us have no business running a network. Businesses' infrastructures have allowed complexity to spread like a cancer, he says, and most times we simply don't ...
Telecom
Mar 16, 2007
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By using a laser beam to focus and push particles against a substrate, scientist Lars Helseth of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed and built a unique type of colloidal printer. Taking advantage of ...
Word of an announcement from SNOCAP, the music technology/online distribution company, was brewing earlier this week, and today they finally let the cat out of the bag: SNOCAP is working with record labels like SubPop to ...
Internet
Mar 16, 2007
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Photo-tagging Web site Flickr announced it has added a new feature to the site that allows users to further organize their photo sets beyond simply creating subsets.
Internet
Mar 16, 2007
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