“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Walt Disney Curiosity; the Mars Science Laboratory, the darling rover of NASA, and the agencies greatest media success to date in the modern era. Curiosity is a... Read More

Quantum computers promise almost unimaginable computational speeds, but creating such futuristic computers has proven to be very difficult. “Normally, every contact with the outer world changes information in a quantum system in a completely uncontrolled manner,” explains Professor Mario Ruben from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, who... Read More

Snaking a catheter through an artery in your groin and up to your heart might not sound like “fun” but when compared to open-heart surgery you have to ask yourself “eh, Why not?” Nearly 40 percent of all patients requiring aortic heart valve replacement are forced to live with a... Read More

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are the latest craze in consumer electronics, but thats set to change with new research from Umeå University in Sweden. OLED displays are highly prized because they are thin, can be flexible, and do not require backlights unlike more traditional LCD technology. However, OLEDs are expensive... Read More

According to Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian IBM researchers will be announcing a major breakthrough for spintronics later this week in the journal Nature. Spintronics are similar to electronics but uses an electron’s spin--up or down--to encode data as a one or a zero. Spintronics are theoretically a great advance for computation... Read More