Extraterrestrial Communication
In a cover story for the journal Nature, Christopher Rose, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers, contends that inscribing information and physically sending it to some location in deep s ...
In a cover story for the journal Nature, Christopher Rose, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers, contends that inscribing information and physically sending it to some location in deep s ...
Using a vibrating arm less than one-millionth of an inch long and one-thousand times thinner than a human hair, a new transistor toggles on and off through the movement of a single electron. The infinitesimal size and low power requirements of this single electron transist ...
DC/DC Converter Delivers High Efficiency Input-Output Isolation for 24-V, -48-V Telecom, Computing Distributed Power Systems Texas Instruments announced today a 20-A, wide-input (18 V to 60 V), isolated DC/DC ...
The U.S. academic community will soon have access to a new supercomputer modeled on the highest-performance systems currently being built in the United States, through a $9.7 million award to the Pittsburgh Supercomputin ...
Scientists from the UK and the USA have successfully demonstrated a new technique that could help to shrink the size and cost of future particle accelerators for fundamental physics experiments and applications in materials and bio ...
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a giant step toward realizing the promise of laser wakefield acceleration, by guiding and controlling extremely intense l ...
LM273x Family of Buck Regulators Offers Clock Speeds of up to 3 MHz in Ultra-Small Packaging National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced a new family of switching buck regulators that combine smal ...
Silicon Image, Inc., a leader in multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media, today announced the new SteelVineTM storage architecture that radically alters the landscape of storage solutions availabl ...
Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs are presenting two papers based on innovative research this week at MobiCom 2004 in Philadelphia, the premier international forum for mobile computing and wireless networki ...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and HP today announced availability of the industry's first storage and server solutions offering high-performance 300 gigabyte (GB) Fibre Channel and SCSI disk drive capacity. HP will offer the Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 ...
At Fall Processor Forum, ARM will be presenting two of its newest technologies for one of the most knowledgeable technical audiences in chip design.
It will be drilling for information first, then for resources, though oil is not likely to be among exploration targets. The futuristic drilling rig, under development at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, is designed for use on the moon or on ...
Unique Photos from La Silla and Paranal Measure the Distance Today, September 29, 2004, is undisputedly the Day of Toutatis, the famous "doomsday" asteroid. Not since the year 1353 did this impressive "space rock" pas ...
Over the next 17 months, Virginia Tech will lead a team of researchers exploring the development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein structures in an attempt to mimic biological systems. The De ...
A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT wednesday. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between the Earth and the moon (app ...