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Scientific discovery moves racetrack memory closer to reality

IBM researchers today revealed a previously unknown aspect of key physics inside Racetrack memory -- a new technology design which stands to improve memory capabilities within mobile phones, laptop computers and business-class ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 53 | with audio podcast

New Path To Solar Energy Via Solid-State Photovoltaics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have found a new mechanism by which the photovoltaic effect can take place in semiconductor thin-films. This new path to energy production brightens the future for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Internet upgraded to foil cyber crooks

The Internet has undergone a key upgrade that promises to stop cyber criminals from using fake websites that dupe people into downloading viruses or revealing personal data.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Mozilla resists request to remove Firefox tool

Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser, is holding off on complying with a government request to remove a software tool meant to circumvent federal efforts at curbing Internet piracy.

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 20

More possible branches to the domain of life

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the current domain of life, we are familiar with the three branches: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. However, Jonathan Eisen of UC Davis and his team have published possible ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Study of protein structures reveals key events in evolutionary history

A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

WikiLeaks subpoenas spill out into public realm

(AP) -- Investigative documents in the WikiLeaks probe spilled out into the public domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama administration's determination to assemble a criminal case no matter ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 330

Walls falling faster for solid-state memory

After running a series of complex computer simulations, researchers have found that flaws in the structure of magnetic nanoscale wires play an important role in determining the operating speed of novel devices using such ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The sound and the query: Why do questions take the form they do?

In linguistic terms, a question is largely the re-ordering of a statement. Shuffle the words around, make a couple of other changes, and "John rode a horse" becomes "What did John ride?"

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Domain walls that conduct electricity

The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Internet safe spot planned at ".secure" domain

Internet security specialists have applied for a ".secure" domain that they plan to turn into an online safe zone where bad guys aren't allowed.

Technology / Internet

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Porn sites closer to getting '.xxx' Web address

(AP) -- Porn sites are closer to getting their own address on the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 2

An electronic bucket brigade could boost solar cell voltages

If solar cells could generate higher voltages when sunlight falls on them, they'd produce more electrical power more efficiently. For over half a century scientists have known that ferroelectrics, materials ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Internet set for change with non-English addresses

(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31