and buttons and computers,"said María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Valladolid in Spain."
the computer can then compare new beer samples against the established, learned signal patterns. They tested each of the 25 beer samples seven times.
The phenols and electrodes send electrochemical signals to the computer as they interact. The researchers immerse the electrodes in beer
and a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics c
#Targeted Treatment For Arthritis, Thanks To Stem Cell Discovery Researchers have identified individual stem cells that can regenerate tissue, cartilage and bone.
What Your Clothes May Literally Say About You In the future Wearing a computer on your sleeve may be a lot cooler than a plastic watch with an Apple logo on it-researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have designed a responsive hybrid material fueled by an oscillatory chemical reactions.
reactive material system capable of performing computations without external energy inputs, amplification or computer mediation. The studies combine Balazs'research in Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) gels, a substance that oscillates in the absence of external stimuli,
and manipulate physical objects through the interfaces of computers and mobile devices.""This will have all sorts of implications for the future,
from everyday interaction with mobile phones to learning with computers and design work,"says GHOST coordinator Professor Kasper Hornbaek of the University of Copenhagen."
and store them in the computer as they work. GHOST researchers are also working with deformable interfaces such as pads and sponges for musicians to flex to control timbre, speed and other parameters in electronic music.
The researchers have also been working with orphees flexible mobile devices with lycra or alloy displays
#New tiny silicon chip paves the way for light-speed computers The smallest ever'ultracompact polarisation beamsplitter'-a component used in silicon photonic chips-has been developed by engineers in the US,
the device points to a new generation of computers that can transmit information at the speed of light."
when it comes into your laptop. In that conversion, you're slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light."
which means once information is delivered to your computer or router in photon form, it has to be converted into the slower electron form
and computer processing speeds would skyrocket. That means less power required and longer battery life.""With all light, computing can eventually be millions of times faster,
"The first supercomputers using silicon photonics-already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM-will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic,
"Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years. Data centres that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon,
he says.""Streaming Netflix at light-speed? Can't wait to never leave the house again a
Iron tablets weren working, as they were hard to distribute and left locals with unpleasant side effects, writes Philippa Roxby for BBC Health.
the announcement comes just a few days after another group of researchers made a biodegradable computer chip out of wood."
#Light-based computers will be even more awesome than we thought Researchers have come up with an efficient way of transporting data between computer chips using light rather than electricity.
Not only does this mean that computers will be able to transmit data much, much faster, it also means we could build machines that consume far less energy.
but right now when this data hits our computers, it has to slow down so it can be converted into electrons
and it's responsible for making our computers so hot.""Up to 80 percent of the microprocessor power is consumed by sending data over the wires, one of the researchers,
But while engineers are getting very close to creating computer chips that can process light, theye struggled to find an efficient way to transmit that light across the thousands of different connections,
and having to create a new silicon structure to replace every single wire inside just one computer could be next to impossible.
and far more energy-efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport, "as the press release explains.
powerlines and computers-more efficient. here a big effort to understand friction and control it,
#Computer solves 120-year-old biology problem that had stumped scientists Can computer software invent scientific theories and ideas as well as crunch numbers?
who have programmed a computer to come up with its own scientific hypothesis on one of biology's most well-known mysteries.
Essentially, the computer was guessing how a worm's genes connect together, and simulating a new theory each time
#Engineers have created a computer that operates on water droplets Researchers in the US have built a fully functioning computer that runs like clockwork-but instead of electrons,
the same way that regular computers manipulate information. Although this new water-based computer could theoretically do everything a normal computer can thanks to its universal logic gates,
it much slower than the devices we currently use. But the team has far bigger plans in mind for their invention-revolutionising the way we process
"We already have digital computers to process information Our goal is to build a completely new class of computers that can precisely control
Prakash first came up with the idea for the computer nearly a decade ago, but although it was easy enough to work out how to control water droplets-by infusing them with magnetic nanoparticles
In regular computers this is the role of the clock, which perfectly times every single movement within the system,
Theye hoping this will allow them to perform reactions that are done currently in bulk in test tubes with their computer-essentially,
In a press release the students explain that their research"extended the traditional brain-computer interface technology
#A deep learning machine just beat humans in an IQ TEST For the first time ever, a computer has outperformed humans in the verbal reasoning portion of an IQ TEST.
which involves converting data into a set of algorithms that a computer can make sense of.
Until now, computers have been pretty successful at beating humans in two out of the three parts of a standard intelligence quotient test,
The team helped the computers out further by feeding them multiple examples of questions so that they were able to recognise the question type
They then tested the computer against 200 human participants of various ages and educational backgrounds."
The strategy has also been used to teach computers how to beat us at 49 old-school Atari games,
because helps computers to quickly read the information that's stored magnetically in hard drives. When materials with giant magnetoresistance are exposed to a magnetic field,
and cheap tablet computers,"Ben Schiller points out at Fast Company, and the team at Caltech isn interested in adding busted loo to that list.
visual information is captured by a tiny camera attached to the patient's glasses and sent to a pocket-sized computer,
These instructions were sent via the Internet to a remote computer hooked up to a simple, wheeled robot.
#IBM creates the world's most powerful computer chip IBM has built a working version of a new computer chip,
At around four times more powerful than today's top-of-the-line technology, it should pave the way for a new generation of super-speedy computers and gadgets in the not-too-distant future.
which in turn leads to faster smartphones, laptops, and computers. IBM's breakthrough is still a long way from getting into consumer gadgets,
as computer chips get ever denser and the laws of physics start to restrict further improvements,
but the end results are a computer chip that's faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient.
"For business and society to get the most out of tomorrow's computers and devices,
Pc (4450)+ and Pc (4380+.+After studying the mass of these particles, the team concluded that they could only be explained by being in pentquark states."
000 times faster than current flash memory Tech giants Intel and Micron have announced a new class of computer memory called 3d XPOINT,
and the solid-state drives found in everything from smartphones to ultraportable laptops (not counting older computers or desktop PCS that still use mechanical platter hard drives).
The team's most recent advance also brings the field closer to realizing carbon nanotube transistors as a feasible replacement for silicon transistors in computer chips
and laptops but are unable to keep up with the growing demands placed on them. Dr Semih Afyon a scientist at the Electrochemical Materials Institute sums up the fundamental idea that is driving battery research:
#Robots learn to use kitchen tools by watching Youtube videos Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre
artificial intelligence or the design of computers that can make their own decisions; computer vision or the engineering of systems that can accurately identify shapes and movements;
and natural language processing or the development of robust systems that can understand spoken commands. Although the underlying work is complex the team wanted the results to reflect something practical and relatable to people's daily lives.
and understands it said Yiannis Aloimonos UMD professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab one of 16 labs and centers in UMIACS.
and how well future computers and other electronic devices will function. The new material, composed of both a semiconductor
Common'data structure'revamped to work with multicore chips Today hardware manufacturers are making computer chips faster by giving them more cores or processing units.
We 3d printed the needed parts with our other Makerbot Replicator Desktop 3d printer and used them to modify the Makerbot Replicator 2x Experimental 3d printer
and is a size that fits on a desktop. Originally Mr. Goldstein thought that he would need special PLA to maintain sterility
and other parts on their Makerbot Replicator Desktop 3d printer to produce a brand new bioreactor.
This reduces the need for trial and error experimentation in the lab. Using a supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory we are able to use our computer simulations to compress decades of research in the lab into a total of about a day's worth of computing said lead researcher Ilja
Predicting the zeolites'performance required serious computing power efficient computer algorithms and accurate descriptions of the molecular interactions.
The team's software can utilize Mira a supercomputer with nearly 800000 processors to run in a day the equivalent computations requiring about 10 million hours on a single-processor computer.
Holographic computing blends a view of the physical world with computer-generated imagery to create a hybrid of real and virtual.
and the computer uses the reading to calculate the glucose concentration. The process is repeated then with UV LIGHT.
The computer then uses these two different readings to calculate the premature baby's blood sugar level.
#New laser for computer chips: International team of scientists constructs first germanium-tin semiconductor laser for silicon chips The transfer of data between multiple cores as well as between logic elements and memory cells is regarded as a bottleneck in the fast-developing computer technology.
Data transmission via light could be the answer to the call for a faster and more energy efficient data flow on computer chips as well as between different board components.
Signal transmission via copper wires limits the development of larger and faster computers due to the thermal load and the limited bandwidth of copper wires.
Along with computer chips completely new applications that have not been pursued so far for financial reasons may
computer chips, and the nanomaterials involved in energy conversion or storage. But this also means that the X-rays pass straight through conventional lenses without being bent or focussed.
Jérôme Bonnet's team in Montpellier's Centre for Structural Biochemistry (CBS) had the idea of using concepts from synthetic biology derived from electronics to construct genetic systems making it possible to"programme"living cells like a computer.
and a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics s
#Your viral infection history in a single drop of blood With Virscan, scientists can run a single test to determine which viruses have infected an individual,
and computer software to analyze the images and identify them by comparing them to other, known bacteria.
The software uses a machine-learning algorithm--the sort computers connected to security cameras might use for automated facial recognition.
Engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets The computer is nearly a decade in the making,
Because of its universal nature, the droplet computer can theoretically perform any operation that a conventional electronic computer can crunch,
"Our goal is to build a completely new class of computers that can precisely control
Computer clocks are responsible for nearly every modern convenience. Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet--without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
"The reason computers work so precisely is that every operation happens synchronously; it's what made digital logic so powerful in the first place,
Arraydeveloping a clock for a fluid-based computer required some creative thinking. It needed to be easy to manipulate,
"Prakash said the most immediate application might involve turning the computer into a high-throughput chemistry and biology laboratory.
and the droplet computer offers unprecedented control over these interactions. From the perspective of basic science, part of why the work is so exciting,
#Supercomputers surprisingly link DNA crosses to cancer Supercomputers have helped scientists find a surprising link between cross-shaped (or cruciform) pieces of DNA and human cancer, according to a study at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin.
High performance computing at UT Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) with the Stampede and Lonestar supercomputers helped the researchers find short inverted repeats of 30 base pairs
We used the TACC supercomputers for that aspect of the work.''''We have used both the Stampede and the Lonestar Linux clusters.
We certainly cannot do this kind of work on our laptop or anything like a normal system in our laboratories;
This computer turns the image to electronic signals that are sent wirelessly to an electronic device implanted on the retina
"and wearing your computer on your sleeve, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction
reactive material system capable of performing computations without external energy inputs, amplification or computer mediation. Their research,"Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials:
including computers s
#Eco-friendly oil spill solution developed An eco-friendly biodegradable green'herding'agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water has been developed by researchers.
A new WPT system is capable of charging multiple mobile devices concurrently and with unprecedented freedom in any direction,
A group of researchers at KAIST has developed a wireless-power transfer (WPT) technology that allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction,
Either 30 smartphones with a power capacity of one watt each or 5 laptops with 2. 4 watts each can be simultaneously
The maximum power transfer efficiency for the laptops was 34%.%The researchers said that to fabricate plane Tx
This has made it possible for mobile devices to receive power from any direction. Although wireless-power technology has been applied to smartphones
The degree of freedom represents mobile devices'freedom of movement in three-dimensional space. In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment.
and colleagues identified a subset of developmentally relevant genes that are activated prior to the first cell division using computer-assisted mathematical modeling that can be used to predict
that eliminates TV broadcasts from interfering with the super Wi-fi data signals being sent to computer users,
For example, a 2014 Cisco report found that nearly a half-billion mobile devices with data connections had been added to the global supply within the previous year, bringing the global total to 7. 4 billion--a bit more than number of people On earth, according to the U s. Census bureau.
researchers made a discovery that could one day lead to better information storage in computers.
"Despite revealing such limits, the research could one day aid the development of better data storage for computers,
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
RAM, which is used to run the programs on your computer, can record and rewrite information very quickly via an electrical current.
whenever the computer is powered down. ROM storage, including CDS and DVDS, uses phase-change materials and lasers to store information.
One will be a finger-touch device similar to a computer mouse. The other will be a wearable version for continuous monitoring."
Using Mira, the ALCF's 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, the researchers replicated the experimental conditions with large-scale molecular dynamics simulations aimed at understanding the underlying mechanisms of superlubricity at an atomistic level.
which could potentially be used for applications in dry environments, such as computer hard drives, wind turbine gears, and mechanical rotating seals for microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems.
"Arraythe team's groundbreaking nanoscroll discovery would not have been possible without a supercomputer like Mira.
"And with the recent announcement of Aurora, the ALCF's next-generation supercomputer, Sankaranarayanan is excited about where this line of research could go in the future."
said it took many hours of computer modeling and data analysis to help understand and refine its details."
The scientists were able to specify the degree of networking in advance with computers. Using specially developed image analysis algorithms,
Even with high-performance computers, it still initially took nearly five days to calculate a good"quality map"of the electrode.
Nanowires that poke out can be connected to a computer to take recordings and stimulate cells. So far, the researchers have implanted meshes consisting of 16 electrical elements into two brain regions of anaesthetized mice
Nanowires connecting the mesh with computers in the outside world can either record brain activity or stimulate nearby neurons.
Such research may provide valuable insights into the causes of brain disease and how the brain processes informationpening the door for reverse engineering certain processes in computers,
#Braille tablet can convert text for blind users and let them read, write and chat We have seen technology springing up in many forms to empower those that are visually impaired.
an Austrian company planning to release a responsive Braille tablet. Braille, the longstanding, universal language
She spent four years at Sony Computer Entertainment and then became a social gaming director at Japanese mobile gaming firm GREE,
and mobile devices that are powered continuously by Wi-fi routers. Check out the researcher full paper at Cornell University Library arxiv. via New Scientist via Digital Trends
But just like the Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other single-board computers, DM will measure its success by how many vehicles will be built
self-powered smart keyboard that can identify computer users by the way they type. The device, reported in the journal ACS Nano, could help prevent unauthorized users from gaining direct access to computers.
Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues note that password protection is one of the most common ways we control who can log onto our computers
and see the private information we entrust to them. But as many recent high-profile stories about hacking
but still cost-effective and user friendly approach to safeguarding what on our computers. The researchers developed a smart keyboard that can sense typing patterns including the pressure applied to keys
he or she cannot access your computer because that person types in a different way than you would.
then devised mathematical algorithms to crack the code governing the process and built computer-based models of the coding system.
Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre of Excellence in Australia (NICTA) to develop robotic systems that are able
artificial intelligence, or the design of computers that can make their own decisions; computer vision, or the engineering of systems that can accurately identify shapes and movements;
and natural language processing, or the development of robust systems that can understand spoken commands. Although the underlying work is complex,
said Yiannis Aloimonos, UMD professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, one of 16 labs and centers in UMIACS. ut cooking is complex in terms of manipulation,
The team most recent advance also brings the field closer to realizing carbon nanotube transistors as a feasible replacement for silicon transistors in computer chips and in high-frequency communication devices,
which could bring superior computers, cryptography and communications technologies. hese results indicate that the brightness of the nanodiamond-based single-photon emitter could be enhanced substantially by placing such an emitter on the surface of the hyperbolic metamaterial,
Instead of only the states of one and zero that exist in conventional computers, there are many possible uperposition quantum states.
Computers based on quantum physics would have quantum bits, or ubits, increasing the computer capacity to process, store,
and transmit information. The nitrogen vacancy also makes it possible to potentially record information based on the nuclear or electron pinstate of the center,
Their research holds the promise of building dramatically faster, smaller and more efficient computer chips.
and could pave the way for future generations of faster, energy-efficient computer chips. Their work was published this week in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
tablets and televisions to make them incredibly thin, flexible, durable and even semitransparent. The LED device was constructed by combining different 2d crystals
The up or down orientation of the electron spins on these NV centers can be used to encode information in a way that is somewhat analogous to how the charge of many electrons is used to encode the and in a classical computer.
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines. The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter the smallest on record for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.
The discovery will lead to computers and mobile devices that could be millions of times faster than machines today
because the information or data that is computed or shuttled is done through light instead of electrons. Image credit:
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
Eventually, the technology could reach home computers and mobile devices and improve applications from gaming to video streaming. ight is the fastest thing you can use to transmit information,
says Menon. ut that information has to be converted to electrons when it comes into your laptop.
In that conversion, youe slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light. Photons of light carry information over the Internet through fiber-optic networks.
or computer can handle the information. That bottleneck could be eliminated if the data stream remained as light within computer processors. ith all light,
computing can eventually be millions of times faster, says Menon. To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter
mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life
and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel
and IBM will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic. Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.
Data centers that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says.
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#Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
#Toward reenpaper-thin, flexible electronics The rapid evolution of gadgets has brought us an impressive array of martproducts from phones to tablets,
The recorded signal is carried then via wire bundles from the patient brain to a computer,
The arrays were connected by a cable to a system of computers that processed the signals,
and controlled output devices that included a computer cursor and a robotic arm developed by collaborators at Johns hopkins university.
the patient was trained to control the computer cursor and the robotic arm with his mind.
Direct brain control of robots and computers has the potential to dramatically change the lives of many people,
Made up of little more than a tablet, smart phone camera, polarizer and a box, the device is established based on well principles of fluorescent microscopy,
clinically relevant biomarkers found in high concentration in many human diseases. he samples were placed on the tablet
a polarizer sat on top of the samples to help separate the tablet light from the emission from the samples.
and setting up the standard commercial tablet and smartphone is very straightforward. The results can be analysed by simply taking an image
By simulating experiments in computers and observing the results, they were able to design actual chemistry experiments and reagents with much better performance than traditional trial-and-error approaches.
collaboration could lead to biodegradable computer chips Portable electronics typically made of nonrenewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials are discarded at an alarming rate in consumerspursuit of the next best electronic gadget.
A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip rests on a leaf. Image credit: Yei Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip rests on a leaf.
Image credit: Yei Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory The research team, led by UW-Madison electrical
or support layer, of a computer chip, with cellulose nanofibril (CNF), a flexible, biodegradable material made from wood. he majority of material in a chip is support.
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