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White Paper Scientific High-End Computing (HEC) has become an important tool for scientists world-wide to understand problems, such as in nuclear fusion, human genomics and nanotechnology. Every year, new HEC systems emerge on the market with better... [10 Jul 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced yesterday. To bond the individual pipes from layer to layer without damaging... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Emory University School of Medicine believe they have found the answer to... [10 Apr 2008]
CSIRO - May 2004
White Paper The challenge for CSIRO was to provide CSIRO scientists, located around the country, with ready access to a single, secure and powerful computing resource that would centralise their research on the human genome, protein structures and other... [10 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up The scientists hope to unlock the secrets of the insects' tiny brains - they have about 950,000 brain cells to a human's 100 billion - by analysing how they make complex choices about which routes to fly between flowers. [29 Feb 2008]
Scientists track bees with RFID
News Scientists hope to unlock the secrets of the insects' tiny brains - they have about 950,000 brain cells to a human's 100 billion - by examining how they make complex choices about which routes to fly between flowers. [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy
Photo A millennium after his death this boy from Peru, pictured here, is revealing secrets to Swiss scientists thanks to pioneering new scanning technology. The scan, being examined here by scientists at the University of Zurich, revealed the mummy's... [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo The transistor was invented by Bell Labs scientists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley to replace the vacuum tube. Since its invention, the size of transistors has continued to shrink to the point that today more than six billion... [29 Jan 2008]
Energy Sciences Network Enriches Scientific Collaboration With Integrated Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing
White Paper one will find ESnet, a high-speed network serving thousands of scientists and collaborators conducting research for the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory wanted to facilitate collaboration among scientists in geographically dispersed... [10 Jan 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo German scientists have produced thermo-generators (pictured) that use human body heat to generate power and could be used to run mobile devices in future. Scientists are coming up with novel ways to power gadgets - including using body heat and... [19 Nov 2007]
Scientists perfecting picture passwords
News Computer scientists from Newcastle University have developed software that lets the user draw pictures as an alternative to remembering strings of letters and numbers. However, the human mind has a much greater capacity for remembering images, and... [05 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Animated statistics
Comment About five years ago I came across a group of very frustrated social scientists and health specialists bent on trying to explain mega-trends in global health and wealth across nations by the year. Animating the data was the only way any real... [12 Oct 2007]
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century - Absolute Identification
White Paper Indeed, a growing number of scientists, engineers, and politicians now see identification of human bodies not as a technical problem, but rather as a political one. Absolute identification is a policy goal that is within one's grasp. [10 Oct 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo The training takes place in the UK Centre of Excellence for Acoustic Analysis, where teams of scientists, engineers, analysts and military personnel also analyse acoustic information to extract the characteristics of ships and submarines, as well... [22 Aug 2007]
Microsoft Researchers Boost Task Productivity Fiftyfold With Cluster Server Software
White Paper Since 2003, scientists at Microsoft Research have been performing research on the design of a vaccine for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). However, with only six personal computers and 10 processors, the research team struggled to perform... [22 May 2007]
