French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics. They discovered the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance", in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. The knowledge has allowed industry to develop sensitive reading tools to pull data off hard ...

Job hunters with these IT skills are assured of employment, now and in the future Have you spoken with a high-tech recruiter or professor of computer science lately? According to observers across the country, the technology skills shortage that pundits were talking about a year ago is real. Many recruiters say there ...

Enter the world of next-regeneration computer interface. Forget your age old mouse and keyboard. Its about having a hands on experience. Yes Minority Report style. Microsoft has come up with a table top computer, this new product, which goes by Surface, uses touch as the ...

Plugs and cables could become obsolete after scientists devised a way of recharging electrical devices ranging from laptop computers to lights from a distance. Scientists have known for years that electricity can be transferred without wires, but had struggled to find a practical and efficient way of making it work. The breakthrough, ...

As dual core configurations and even quad core servers are becoming more and more frequent on the market, one could wonder what’s the next step. And there are a few alternatives such as organic computing and other biologically-inspired solutions. But for now there are some real, palpable solutions we can ...

Are you tired of missing some of your favorite open source, Linux-based applications on your Unix/Mac OS X/Windows-based system? Ever wished that they were ported to your current operating system? Then look no further. Coming this June is LINA, a Linux virtual machine that allows users to run applications with ...

The future could be filled with T-shirts that light up or beach umbrellas that collect solar energy to run portable televisions, if new organic semiconductor technology comes into play. Cornell University researchers have developed a new type of organic semiconductor device that shows electroluminescence and acts as a photovoltaic cell....

Nanotechnology, according to its fans, will jumpstart a new industrial revolution with molecular-sized structures as complex as the human cell and 100 times stronger than steel. The new technology transforms everyday products and the way they are made by manipulating atoms so that materials can be shrunk, strengthened and lightened ...

Solar panels that will be more efficient and a whole lot cheaper are on their way, ready to match the cost of old-fashioned fossil fuels within five years. Everyone loves solar power. The notion of making electricity from the Earth's solar income is pretty much irresistible. ...

Scientists have built a memory chip the size of a white blood cell about one-2,000th of an inch on a side with wires as thin as proteins. It holds 160,000 bits and is 40 times as dense as today's memory chips — very impressive. The chips ...