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Self-Healing Metal Puts a Bit of Man in the Machine

New nanotech advances point to a future with intelligent metals that repair themselves. Think the Terminator from T2, but less evil and more useful.READ»

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Graphene: Source of The Next Industrial Revolution?

"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ»

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Future Chips To Get More Powerful, Research Shows Plenty of Life in Moore's Law

Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»

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