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Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 6 | with audio podcast




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Samsung presents a new graphene device structure

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the core R&D incubator for Samsung Electronics, has developed a new transistor structure utilizing graphene.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather

The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA researchers search for meteorite fragments in a zeppelin

It's not every day that NASA descends on your backyard, hunting for clues to extraterrestrial life.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Beaming up on the way to space

(Phys.org) -- Space may be the final frontier. But often a few trips to PML are necessary before things can get off the ground. One recent case in point is the test of an instrument called the Extreme Ultraviolet ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Redefining time

Atomic clocks based on the oscillations of a cesium atom keep amazingly steady time and also define the precise length of a second. But cesium clocks are no longer the most accurate. That title has been transferred ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Scientists find the structure of a key 'gene silencer' protein

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein that is centrally involved in regulating the activities of cells. Knowing the precise ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Swiss scientists demonstrate mind-controlled robot (Update)

(AP) -- Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Novel plasmonic material may merge photonic and electronic technologies

Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

To drive infections, a hijacking virus mimics a cell's signaling system

New biological research reveals how an invading virus hijacks a cell's workings by imitating a signaling marker to defeat the body's defenses. By manipulating cell signals, the virus destroys a defensive protein designed ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Storms from the sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space weather starts at the sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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