| Fastest light-driven process ever Dec 5th 2012, 19:24 A discovery that promises transistors -- the fundamental part of all modern electronics -- controlled by laser pulses that will be 10,000 faster than today's fastest transistors has now been made. |  | Switching with a few photons for quantum computing Dec 5th 2012, 18:02 Quantum computing, where bits of information, or "qubits," are represented by the state of single atomic particles or photons of light, won't be of much use unless we can read the results. Researchers have taken a step in that direction with a device that can measure the presence of just a few photons without disturbing them. | | Wireless communication's crystal ball Dec 5th 2012, 17:09 By now, wireless connections like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are just as commonplace in industry. Yet systems often interfere with one another as data is being exchanged. Now, "Awair" will not only detect available frequencies but will predict them, too. | | Mobile browsers fail Internet safety test Dec 5th 2012, 16:28 How unsafe are mobile browsers? Unsafe enough that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when their smartphone browsers have landed on potentially dangerous websites, according to a recent study. | | Crucial step in AIDS virus maturation simulated for first time Dec 4th 2012, 13:13 Bioinformaticians in Spain have used molecular simulation techniques to explain a specific step in the maturation of the HIV virions, i.e., how newly formed inert virus particles become infectious, which is essential in understanding how the virus replicates. These results could be crucial to the design of future antiretrovirals. | | Scientists develop indium-free organic light-emitting diodes Dec 3rd 2012, 21:35 Scientists have discovered new ways of using a well-known polymer in organic light emitting diodes, which could eliminate the need for an increasingly problematic and breakable metal-oxide used in screen displays in computers, televisions, and cell phones. | |
