COSMOS supercomputer window to universe
Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Europe, the COSMOS supercomputer, manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind....
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Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Europe, the COSMOS supercomputer, manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind....
Tiny glass fragments from a 40,000-year-old volcanic eruption suggest Neandertals were wiped out by competition with modern humans and not by climate change. Image: Suzanne MacLachlan/BOSCORF/N...
Awesome Experiences Make Us Nicer: Ever feel changed after watching an amazing sunset, or reaching the summit of a mountain or seeing the Northern Lights? There's a reason for that, say p...
Samsung may begin producing flexible AMOLED displays this quarter According to The Verge, Korean news site DDaily says Samsung is set to begin manufacturing its long-rumored "Youm" disp...
World's 1st Free Course on "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" Edinburgh University’s upcoming free course, “Introduction ...
Russian Railways (RZhD) and the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) intend to create a nuclear-powered train, reports Interfax. According to RZhD vice-president Valent...
Giant Leap in Space Technology: For Galaxies, Black Holes & Quantum World (Weekend Feature) A new type of amplifier for boosting electrical signals that can be used...
We stand on the verge of a revolution in medicine: understanding, treating, and ultimately preventing the causes of degenerative aging. But medical revolutions only happen if we all stand up ...
Missing your loved one's kisses might just be a thing of the past with the invention of "The Kissenger", an egg-shaped device with over-sized silicon lips that can send a kiss to someone far a...
Ally 'Portable Canoe' Folds Up into Box July 6, 2012, 3:32 pm / Categories: Water & Boats The “folding canoe” from Ally arrived in a box that fit in the back seat of my Toyota Corolla. I hea...
Pull-Behind Gear: Trailer offers 'Massive Capacity' We had four grown men and a stationwagon. We had mountain bikes, backpacks, paddles, life jackets, shoes, and all the food and extra gear requir...
Stink Test: Never-Washed T-shirt worn for Months This year, on outdoor activities around the world, I’ve put the MeCo 120 shirt from Rab through a metaphorical wringer. Now, I think it’s time ...
Ethereal aerographite is lightest stuff ever made 19:02 11 July 2012 Picture of the Day Jacob Aron, reporter It looks like a wisp of smoke or even the work of...
Image: IndoorAtlas The Earth's magnetic field once helped pioneering explorers discover exciting new lands and untold riches. Now, it could stop you getting lost at the shops, thanks to an upc...
Lightweight rechargeable headphones 0 inShare Nakamichi NW501 digital wireless headphones. THE NW501 digital wireless headphones use 2.4GHz digital tran...
It's the first retrofitted zero energy building in Southeast Asia and serves as an example to show how a building can be redesigned to achieve energy efficiency. (Photograph courtesy of BCA) ...
Computer that could outlive the universe a step closer The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age. A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically cont...
Researchers switch magnetic state and electric resistance of a single molecule on and off Using a scanning tunneling microscope tip, defined electricity pulse...
Celebrations as Higgs boson is finally discovered There's a 5-in-10 million chance that this is a fluke. That was enough for physicists to declare that the Higgs boson – the world's most-want...
Using the same technology to build solar cells and the circuits that transmit their power could lead to cheap charging stations By Neil Savage / June 2012 Share on print Share on email ...
An advanced experimental system that can generate attosecond bursts of extreme ultraviolet light — the shortest controllable light pulses available to science — has be...
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory doesn't have anywhere near the name recognition of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. But for the time being, it...
Time may stop in Universe after Earth dies According to the hypothesis from the scientists of the University of Salamanca, Spain, time will stop in the universe in remote future. Everythin...
Magic Material? Clothing said to 'Cool Wearer with Sweat' With requisite bombast, at a press conference this weekend Columbia Sportswear debuted a fabric technology purported to offer "a whole ne...