http://www.ccnmag.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:56:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/biological_computer_encrypts,_deciphers_images Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA chips CalTechNews Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:13:34 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/hard_drive_breakthrough_recording_using_heat An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology CalTechNews Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:28:25 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/cooling_semiconductors_by_laser_light Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two fields -- quantum physics and nano physics -- and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes CalTechNews Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:54:31 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/exotic_new_computers_closer In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen cylinder of stainless steel CalTechNews Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:29:23 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/world_s_smallest_magnetic_data_storage_unit Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit CalTechNews Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:08:36 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/wire_four_atoms_wide,_one_atom_tall_created The smallest wires ever developed in silicon -- just one atom tall and four atoms wide -- has been shown by a team of researchers to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires. CalTechNews Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:20:30 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/computer_assisted_design_(cad)_for_rna The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences CalTechNews Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:28:55 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/more_powerful_supercomputers_ Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers CalTechNews Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:22:41 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/multi-purpose_photonic_chip_paves_the_way_to_programmable_quantum_processors A multi-purpose optical chip which generates, manipulates and measures entanglement and mixture -- two quantum phenomena which are essential driving forces for tomorrow's quantum computers has been developed CalTechNews Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:19:57 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/smart_swarms_of_bacteria_inspire_robotics Much to humans' chagrin, bacteria have superior survival skills. Their decision-making processes and collective behaviors allow them to thrive and even spread efficiently in difficult environments CalTechNews Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:59:00 +0100