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»
NASA's prepping its Solar Probe Plus mission for a firey sundive. It's no theatrical stunt--it's all about science and understanding how our sun works, which doesn't make it a bit less awesome.READ»
Professor Stephen Hawking rethinks God, CEOs who fire more earn more, European consumer spending is up, Walkman sales somehow surpass iPod sales in Japan, and Hurricane Earl spins up the Eastern Seaboard.READ»
Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»
American defense firm Raytheon unveiled its anti-aircraft laser, of all places, at an airshow in England. Called the Laser Close-In Weapon System, Raytheon said the 50 kilowatt beam it produces can be used against aircraft, ...READ»
Liquid, bullet-stopping body armor. Read that again: Liquid, bullet-stopping body armor. It's not sci-fi, it's real, and a team of U.K. scientists have proven it has a future in protecting soldiers from incoming rounds or shrapnel. ...READ»
While you were putting your dreams of a World Cup final to bed, innovation was smashing particles together at an amazing rate, ruminating over the fallout of the BP oil spill, and fiddling with its new smartphone.1. It's been 69 days ...READ»
That little hunk of frost-coated hardware in the photo is the Spyder III Pro Arctic blue handheld laser. It's being marketed as the closest thing to real-life Star Wars lightsaber ever. Because this $200 piece of Chinese gear can fry ...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»
The four disciplines, known as STEM, have been deemed crucial to American competitiveness. How can we design our schools so students want to learn about them?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»
While some people are of the belief that the commercials are the best thing about TV, most of us use the ad break as a chance to do something else--search for the Higgs boson down the back of the sofa, murder our mothers-in-law, or ...READ»
While some people are of the belief that the commercials are the best thing about TV, most of us use the ad break as a chance to do something else--murder our mothers-in-law, stitch profanities into our boyfriends' underwear, or ...READ»
Usually the digital camera in your smartphone can snap reasonable pics in good lighting, but the image quality is too sucky for photo enthusiasts. Enter InVisage Technologies to right this wrong--their funky new camera tech uses ...READ»
Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason? The eco-unfriendly, inefficient, thermo-luminescent tech has had its day. ...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»
This is the start of FastCompany.TV and here Robert Scoble, Managing Director, welcomes you and explains what's coming up. Some things that are coming soon? Tour of Microsoft Research's new building, more interviews with MySpace ...READ»
You know Tim Berners-Lee as the inventor of the World Wide Web. CERN is the birthplace. So, how did Tim look up to at CERN? Ben Segal. Here Ben gives us some stories about CERN history and about Tim Berners-Lee.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»
I visited IBM's Almaden Research Center (where the hard drive was invented) to see what the researchers there were working on. I met James Kaufman, who is a physicist who is creating an interoperable healthcare information system. ...READ»
