Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom

Every day, modern society creates more than a billion gigabytes of new data. To store all this data, it is increasingly important that each single bit occupies as little space as possible. A team of scientists managed to bring this reduction to the ultimate limit.

Aether 3D Bioprinter - Bioprinting Bone with Graphene and Stem Cells

Aether 1 3D Bioprinter prototype unit shown. Aether 1 beta units are set to be released summer 2016.

Pokemon Go Is a Glimpse of Our Augmented Reality Future

Pokémon Go turns everything we know about gaming on its head. It’s a massively multiplayer real life videogame. RL games have the power to take our beloved stories and franchises and bring them to life. Not only that, they can add a sense of depth, awareness, and somewhat ironically, mindfulness about the real world.

A Remote Controlled Cyborg Stingray Now Exists

So there's now such a thing as a cyborg stingray, a tiny mimic of the real thing that uses living tissues to get around — way cooler than those boring old robot stingrays.

Hyperloop Connecting Helsinki and Stockholm Turns 300-Mile Trip Into 28 Minute Ride

A hyperproposed application for the Hyperloop announced today could solve a transportation conundrum that has been challenging planners for centuries: Connecting the neighboring nations of Sweden and Finland.

Smart Dust Is Coming: New Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Miniaturization is one of the most world-shaking trends of the last several decades. Computer chips now have features measured in billionths of a meter. Sensors that once weighed kilograms fit inside your smartphone. But it doesn't end there.

World's Largest Plane Will Launch Rockets into Space

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has an alternative idea about how to pave a commercial highway to space.

Sunway Taihulight named world's fastest supercomputer

Sunway Taihulight has been named the world's fastest supercomputer, with a processing speed exceeding 100 petaflops per second. Its calculation capacity in one minute equals 32 years of calculations by a billion people using calculators.

Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation

Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment — the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles — on a quantum computer.

How virtual reality will change the face of cinema

It might seem a sensationalist claim, but with the advent of virtual reality we could be on the brink of the biggest change to the way we watch films in over a century.

Future iPhones may have wraparound glass, augmented reality apps

Apple could be planning to develop an iPhone that features a curved wrap-around display and the ability to run augmented reality apps. The company was awarded a patent for the technology on Tuesday, indicating its interest in the area.

5G Mobile Gets One Step Closer to Reality

Fiber-fast wireless will make video chatting buffering-free and advance self-driving car technologies.

World's first 1,000-processor chip

A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed. The energy-efficient "KiloCore" chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.

New "Artificial Synapses" Could Let Supercomputers Mimic the Human Brain

Brain-like machines with human-like abilities to solve problems could become a reality, researchers say.

Google Pioneers Hybrid Approach to Quantum Computing

Scientists from Google and the University of Basque Country in Spain believe they have cleared some of the barriers to more complex and useful quantum computers.