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NEC Develops World's Fastest SRAM-Compatible MRAM With Operation Speed of 250MHz

November 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in developing a new SRAM-compatible MRAM that can operate at 250MHz, the world's fastest MRAM operation speed.


Technology Start-Ups Get Tips on Starting Out

December 14, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

Talk more about business and less about technology. Have a solid team. And consider calling on angels. Those were some of the key lessons at a UT Dallas workshop last week for would-be entrepreneurs seeking capital to turn ...


Giving learning a personal touch

July 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

A learning system that adapts to the abilities and needs of students opens the way to a more personalised approach in delivering education electronically.


Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain

June 24, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used routinely to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have taken the concept ...


Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head

June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | User comments: 4

Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.


Fowl play as scientists make power from chicken droppings

October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Researchers at The University of Manchester have started work on a project to produce power from chicken droppings.


Google ventures into virtual reality with 'Lively'

July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more virtual socializing on the Web.


Bamboo instant houses will soon shelter Sichuan quake victims

June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | No comments yet

A USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor on sabbatical in China has created a prototype of a sturdy, quick-to-build bamboo house designed to help the vast number of people made homeless by the May 12 ...


Ultraclean Combustion Technology For Electricity Generation Fires Up in Hydrogen Tests

August 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 25 vote(s) | No comments yet

An experimental gas turbine simulator equipped with an ultralow-emissions combustion technology called LSI has been tested successfully using pure hydrogen as a fuel – a milestone that indicates a potential ...


How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

April 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | No comments yet

Knowing how powerful a hurricane is, before it hits land, can help to save lives or to avoid the enormous costs of an unnecessary evacuation. Some MIT researchers think there may be a better, cheaper way of getting that crucial ...


Tesla Roadster: Test Driving Your Electric Dream Car

March 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | No comments yet

We take a ride in the Tesla Roadster, a 100-percent electric car inspired by PC technology. Due on the market this fall for under $100K, the Roadster does zero to 60 in 4 seconds.


Dutch University Tests Windmill for Seawater Desalination

February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | No comments yet

A traditional windmill which drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands. In this ...


Cooking up new MEMS

November 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are tiny components etched from silicon. Production is extremely complex, sometimes with hundreds of steps, each with dozens of parameters. One European project has developed ...


Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 47 vote(s) | User comments: 5

Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness ...


Microorganisms one part of the solution to energy problem, says report

November 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

The answer to one of the world's largest problems – the need for clean, renewable sources of energy – might just come from some of the world's smallest inhabitants – bacteria – according to a new report, Microbial Energy ...


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