Tuesday - January 13, 2009
Scientists at IBM Research, along with researchers the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, say they have developed and demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging technology with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. Results of the demonstration were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The development represents a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by providing the ability to study complex 3-D structures at the nanoscale, according to IBM.
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Thursday - November 20, 2008
IBM and five universities are receiving funding from a government agency to build a supercomputer -- but not just any supercomputer. They've been tasked with building hardware and software that mimics the human brain. "There are no computers today that can even remotely approach the robust and versatile functionality of the brain," said Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research.
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Friday - August 22, 2008
Intel outlined an ambitious vision of future technologies Thursday at this year's Intel Developer Forum held in San Francisco. In his keynote address Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, spoke about and demonstrated several technologies he said would be part of an evolution that closes the gap between humans and machines by 2050.
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Wednesday - May 21, 2008
Nanotechnology may be considered one of the most promising new technologies emerging today, but it's also the source of considerable concern about potential risks to the environment and human health. A new study published Tuesday in Nature Nanotechnology, adds further evidence that there's good reason for that concern.
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Tuesday - March 11, 2008
Advances in nanotechnology have given flight to some seemingly fanciful, and also alarming, projections and fictional scenarios. Yet the applications of nanotech are so diverse and far-reaching that scientists agree that the widespread ability to manipulate matter on the nano scale -- one-billionth of a meter -- opens up possibilities to completely transform every sector of the world's economic systems.
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Tuesday - March 4, 2008
There's probably no field of applied scientific research with applications as diverse and implications as profound as nanotechnology. Advances are coming fast and the research environment is heady as billions of dollars each year go into nanotech research and development.
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Monday - February 25, 2008
Imagine what you'd get if you crossed Gumby with a smartphone, and you've got some idea of what a new, nanotech handset from Nokia could be like. The new Morph, which was jointly developed by the Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge in England, is a flexible and stretchable device that can be folded into pocket size and used as a handset, or unfolded and opened up to display more detailed information.
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Friday - January 18, 2008
A new technology using silicon nanowires boosts the ability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to store a charge by as much as a factor of 10, according to research conducted at Stanford University. The findings are published in the December 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
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Monday - November 26, 2007
The potential health and environmental consequences of nanotechnology are a source of greater concern to scientists than to the public at large, according to a new study. The research included a national telephone survey of American households along with a sampling of 363 leading U.S. nanotechnology scientists and engineers.
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Friday - October 12, 2007
Last weekend, 150 people attended the Alcor life extension conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The main subject was cryonics, the use of technology to cool and preserve the human body with the aim of future revival. The technology, still speculative, raises many present-world issues. In 2003, a daughter of Ted Williams attempted to stop the cryonic suspension of the Hall of Fame baseball player.
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Tuesday - October 9, 2007
The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to two scientists who discovered the technology that has made today's tiny hard disk drives possible. Albert Fert of France and Peter Grünberg of Germany are the joint winners of the award for their independent discoveries of Giant Magnetoresistance, an effect in which very weak magnetic changes give rise to major differences in electrical resistance.
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