Sunday, February 24, 2008

1,000 trillion floating-point calculations (flops) per second

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Scientists have unveiled a new initiative, dubbed the Institute for Advanced Architecture, to lay the groundwork for a supercomputer that wo...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Time travel could be possible ... in the future

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Roger Highfield, Science Editor It may take more than a nuclear-powered De Lorean or a spinning police box, but time travel could actually b...

The Chinese Government's Plans for Nanotechnology

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Alexis Madrigal February 17, 2008 BOSTON, MA - China aims to leapfrog the United States in technological development with substantial invest...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

And the 14 Grand Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century Are..

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. By Chuck Squatriglia February 15, 2008 Before you can save the world, you'd better write a to-do list so nothing gets overlooked. Some...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Russians Plan New Space Platform

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By Bill Christensen posted: 15 January 2008 The Russian space agency stated that it intends to develop a space platform from which missions ...

Computing That’s Light Years Ahead

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A new year brings new trends: in American sports, soccer looks poised to become the new basketball; in health and lifestyle features, fifty ...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Robot future poses hard questions

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Public debate is needed about the future use of robots in society Scientists have expressed concern about the use of autonomous decision-mak...