Top 10 countries with most supercomputers

Among the significant changes to the latest Top 500 list is the sharp decline in the number of supercomputers in the United States and a great leap made by China.

Skriware Wants To Make An Easy-To-Use 3D Printer For All

Skriware is a Polish 3D printer created by a team of designers and engineers who want to improve the way we 3D print.

Touchscreens Of The Future: Why A New Transparent Conducting Material Is Needed

Touch screens are incorporated into almost all new technologies, from smart-phones, tablet computers and personal gadgets to flat panel televisions.

Quantum computers a step closer to reality after silicon coding breakthrough

In the race to build the first functional quantum computer, Australian researchers at the University of NSW find coding possible in silicon

NASA and Google invite media to visit quantum computing lab on December 8

NASA today sent out invitations to journalists for a tour of its Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a joint project with NASA, Google, and the Universities Space Research Association located at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Machine learning could solve riddles of galaxy formation

A new machine-learning simulation system promises cosmologists an expanded suite of galaxy models -- a necessary first step to developing more accurate and relevant insights into the formation of the universe.

Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun

Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, according to new research.

3D-printed microchannels deliver oxygen, nutrients from artery to tissue implant

A miniature 3D-printed network of microchannels designed to link up an artery to a tissue implant to ensure blood flow of oxygen and nutrients.

Quantum computers could be next great leap for mankind

Scientist Eric Ladizinsky compares advent of new technology to discovery of fire

SDSC Launches Comet Supercomputer

When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) launched its first supercomputer, a Cray XMP-48, it was about as powerful as an iPhone is today. Now SDSC has formally taken the wraps off Comet, a new petascale supercomputer that is over 2 million times more powerful than that first system.

Scientists Successfully Connect Brain to Android Tablet

Paralyzed patient can now type and surf the internet with a neural implant and tablet.

Researchers develop artificial brain cells to help robots navigate

Inspired by human anatomy, researchers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have developed a simulated version these cells for use in robots, reports MIT’s Technology Review.

Smart robots detect boredom and steer clear of humans

Human-robot interactions are set to become more complex as the result of research from two separate teams that gives robots more naturalistic movement and conversational abilities.

Robots are helping run the first

The robots are assisting the health care staff with basic tasks.

Scientists confirm a cornerstone of quantum computing

Quantum physics theory has an odd but fundamental quirk: atoms in a quantum state aren't supposed to move as long as you're measuring them. It sounds preposterous, but Cornell University researchers have just demonstrated that it's real.