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Just one decade ago, sequencing an entire human genome cost upwards of $10 million and took about three years to complete. Now, several companies are racing to... Read More »
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Ann ConkleHard to believe that the price has fallen so far, so fast. It's very easy to envision the day when genome sequencing is part of routine health care.
May 29, 2012
The rich get richer,
Recent stories in tech seem to center around a widening of the gap between successful and unsuccessful companies. Nowhere is this story more... Read More »
A group at the Nanyang Technological Institute has demonstrated new wireless technology capable of transmitting data 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth -- nearly 2... Read More »
The process of building computer chips over the past several decades has been driven by a focus on Moore’s Law, which calls for improving the speed and number... Read More »
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Leonard PrietSeems to me this is just a question of managing uncertainties -- isn't that something that we do in science all the time?
May 23, 2012
In the wake of Samsung's Exynos quad-core processors, now powering their increasingly successful line of Galaxy smartphones, the semiconductor leader has started... Read More »
A new study has found that small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow on the semiconductor gallium arsenide. This nano-effect is ... Read More »
Twenty-eight proves tough-for-business...
Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Gallium Nitride (GaN) has recently been touted as a highly effectively replacement for silicon in high power transistor applications, but overheating of these devices ... Read More »
Professor Shin Jung Hoon’s team from the Department of Physics and the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology at the Korean Advanced Institute of... Read More »
The Power Conversion -- Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference kicks off today in Nuremburg, Germany, and touts record-setting attendance for a power electronics... Read More »
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP) has executed substantial moves in the semiconductors industry over the past few weeks, most recently with their $939 million... Read More »
Today semiconductor and microchip manufacturer Microchip Technologies announced that it will purchase its smaller rival Standard Microsystems Corp., reports Reuters... Read More »
Photonics is a class of devices analogous to our current electronics except using photons of light instead of electrons. In photonics, light serves as the... Read More »
The impending scarcity of many valuable resources on our planet has had people searching for and utilizing other energy sources. Although researchers have studied and ... Read More »
Conducting organic molecules allow for the creation of flexible electronic devices such as soar cells and thin-film transistors. The problem is that the wiring... Read More »
Today Samsung announced the release of the industry's first 32nm quad-core computer processor based on High-k Metal Gate technology. The processor will power... Read More »
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum... Read More »
A research team led by Andrei Kholkin of the University of Aveiro, Portugal found ferroelectric properties in the amino acid glycine. The team used a combination ... Read More »
Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have developed a technique for encapsulating liquids of... Read More »
Scientists from the Kobe University in Japan and the University of the West of England Bristol in the United Kingdom have discovered that swarms of soldier crabs... Read More »