Tony Orrico uses a technique to generate his drawings that sounds inspired by Donald Rumsfeld's torture playbook: He kneels, lays, or suspends himself over a giant canvas, puts a writing implement in each hand, and starts rhythmically ...READ»
You may not know what fractals are, mathematically speaking, but you know what they look like: tangled, crenelated forms bending and burbling in on themselves into infinity in a geometric, yet weirdly organic way. Generating fractal ...READ»
The handset maker defends signal drop-out problems with its HD7 phone, notes that the effect is "inevitable." Conveniently it seems to have forgotten it said the opposite when calling out Apple over the iPhone "antennagate" affair. READ»
Graphene may be the material that transforms the electronics game into something amazingly new for the 21st century--the Nobel Prize committee seems to agree, and has awarded the 2010 Physics prize to two graphene scientists. READ»
Forget the anguished cries of pain after gentle collisions or even fumble-fingered goalie foul-ups that typify human football. Robot soccer usually dispenses with sloppy play and drama, favoring precision instead. But thanks to ...READ»
Memristors are a seriously hot topic at the moment--we've seen several announcements about these tiny slivers of semiconductor which are the future of electronics, and now HP's got news too. Their memristors will beat flash memory, ...READ»
Most things gadgety are seemingly wirelessly enabled in one way or another, and it's pretty clear that soon everything will be. Now physicists have worked out a way to make it all happen: Microrings, which are tiny radio systems. ...READ»
Here’s Part II of our insider’s look at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The machine that National Geographic said was looking for the God Particle, or the Higgs Boson Particle. This is the largest particle collider in the ...READ»
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics has just been announced, and instead of rewarding some esoteric, hard-to-fathom theoretical physics work, it's gone to pioneers in two fields close to tech-lovers hearts: Fibre-optics and digital ...READ»
Let's face it: it's almost August, the official month of no productivity. Why not start off a week early? Here's seven bits of Internet fun stuff that topped the social news sites this week. Sit back and enjoy.
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The Large Hadron Collider is like the Moon--round, large and mystical. To doubting thinkers, it's like the Moon missions: expensive and unnecessary. If you're a Dan Brown fan, it's dangerous. But whatever you think of it, the LHC is ...READ»
Physicist Sean Gourley thinks he may be able to model and predict violence in Iraq.
And it's not just Iraq; Gourley, who works for the San Fransisco-based startup YouNoodle, has used his military side project to map the ...READ»
Scientists hoping to design a tiny, spinning motor capable of assisting in brain surgery are cribbing secrets from an unlikely source: Pizza-dough throwers.
Standing-wave ultrasonic motors are related to the motors used in the ...READ»
Teleportation is no longer science fiction. If that information is hard to swallow check this out: A U.S. science team has successfully teleported a bunch of Ytterbium metal ions across their laboratory. For real.
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The clever chaps at Duke University have been busy beavering away for years to make the sci-fi staple cloaking device a reality, and their recent results mean a real product is closer than ever. They've fabricated a better ...READ»
Digital photography has leaped forward over the years for three reasons: improved batteries, larger and cheaper memory cards, and revolutions in sensor technology. And now researchers in Scotland are trying to improve the sensors even ...READ»
