A dozen science and tech stories to expect in 2012
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 26. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The coming year is going to be a big one in all kinds of areas, from space to supercomputing, research done both above and below the ocean, examinations into our distant past and into our future. And salmon. Expect to hear lots about salmon. Asteroid Fly-By On January 31, the 20-mile-long asteroid Eros makes its [...]
Concept Fujitsu Lifebook comes with removable smartphone, tablet, and digital camera
Posted by admin in Computers, Concept on 24. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
These days, your average tech enthusiast typically has at their disposal a smartphone, a laptop, a tablet, and a digital camera; and that’s listing the bare minimum. That’s quite a bit of processing power and storage space spread out among different gadgets. What if it were possible to link all those devices together into one [...]
Cloud-based quantum computing will allow secure calculation on encrypted bits
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 20. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
When quantum computers eventually reach larger scales, they’ll probably remain pretty precious resources, locked away in research institutions just like our classical supercomputers. So anyone who wants to perform quantum calculations will likely have to do it in the cloud, remotely accessing a quantum server somewhere else. A new double-blind cryptography method would ensure that [...]
New hormone mimics the effects of physical exercise
Posted by admin in Medicine on 19. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
A group of researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, led by Bruce Spiegelman and Pontus Boström, have discovered a hormone that mimics some of the results of a workout by facilitating the transformation of white fat into brown fat. While the purpose of the former is to accumulate excess calories, the latter [...]
World’s smallest memory bit stores data using just 12 atoms
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 13. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The world’s smallest magnetic data storage unit is made of just 12 atoms, squeezing an entire byte into just 96 atoms, a significant shrinkage in the world of information storage. It’s not a quantum computer, but it’s a computer storage unit at the quantum scale. By contrast, modern hard disk drives use about a million [...]
