Modern technology is finally catching up with firearms, thanks to an innovative, laser-assisted sensor for gun sights. The new device helps marksmen and snipers achieve tremendously higher precision levels when executing difficult shots. The role of the new sensor is to correct even the smallest barrel disruptions au... |
30 April 2011
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Normally, when thinking project Titan, one might think of myths or supersized robots of doom, or both, but in this case, the subject of discussion is a supercomputer, one that is set to be the strongest ever created.While they were a rarity at one point in the past, supercomputers can be said to exist in droves now,... |
24 March 2011
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have just been awarded a $1.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The money will be used for building an electrostatic levitation chamber, which is to be installed inside the lab's Spallation Neutr... |
23 March 2010
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have recently been able to exploit a phenomenon that has for a long time stopped electronics manufacturers from doing what they do best in order to create a new class of advanced chemical and biological sensors. The new instr... |
13 February 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are currently investigating deep retrofitting schemes which, they say, could help boost the energy efficiency of selected homes by 30 to 50 percent. They caution that the results of their studies would not necessarily mean tha... |
26 November 2009
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Speaking yesterday at the SC09 international supercomputing conference, in Portland, scientists announced that the Cray XT5 high-performance computing system, also known as the Jaguar supercomputer, had officially become the world's fastest computer. The Jaguar moved far ahead of IBM's Roadrunner, which has... |
17 November 2009
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The Kraken Cray XT5 supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) has recently been upgraded to become the first academic computer in the world to exceed one petaflop of calculation power. The acronym FLOPS stands for FLoating point Operations Per Second, and the Kraken is now able to perf... |
9 October 2009
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For a long time, ferroelectric materials have been touted as one of the most promising classes of materials to be used for next-generation electronic devices that would be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy than existing ones. However, making them a feasible option is not easy, because of the tech... |
18 June 2009
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