Rather than trying to shrink current data storage technologies further, IBM took the opposite approach and designed a new system from the ground up — building it individual atoms. The new storage could lead to 100-fold increases in chip densities. Take that, Moore’s Law. More »
I’m no scientist, but this news still blows my mind. Researchers at the University of NSW have created the world’s narrowest silicon wires — just four atoms wide and one atom high — and found that it conducts electricity just as well as copper. More »
Fermilab believed they hit the motherlode this past April after findings from the Tevatron particle accelerator suggested a new subatomic particle was out there. A second, independent group has analysed that same data and claim there is no new particle. More »
What kind of particle smasher will succeed the Large Hadron Collider? It might seem premature to be asking that already, but it was one of the questions discussed at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Paris, France. More »
Theoretically speaking, we could exponentially increase computing power by manipulating the way in which electrons in individual atoms spin. Researchers in Germany have seen atomic spin for the very first time and captured a few tiny images to prove it. More »
Feeling clueless about this Large Hadron Collider thing? Don’t panic – the New York Times has you covered. Their LHC primer boils down the basics of the giant particle smasher in layman’s terms, saving you from a weekend spent deciphering jargon. [New York Times]
Tune your tellybox over to this channel now, to view the moment we all get swept into a black hole. Or at the very least, the moment your manager’s ears start steaming with smoke over your laziness. [CERN]
