A Very Old Plant From Stone Age Brought Back to Life, From 32,000-Year-Old Seeds

By On March 1, 2012 · 2 Comments

 

A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old.

The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, [...]

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Google Glasses With Virtual And Augmented Reality

By On February 29, 2012 · 14 Comments

As per many reports, Google is expected to start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and, this being a Google product, advertisements onto the lenses. These glasses will have the combined features of virtual reality and augmented reality.

The Google Glasses can use a 4G cell connection to pull in information from [...]

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A Battery Breakthrough That Could Bring Electric Cars To The Masses

By On February 27, 2012 · 1 Comment

A startup called Envia Systems, working on battery technology says it’s developed a key breakthrough technology that could one day lead to an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000. Envia Systems announced test results that verify the company’s next-generation rechargeable battery has [...]

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World’s Smallest Transistor Created Using Single Atom

By On February 21, 2012 · 3 Comments

Scientists have created what they claim is the world’s smallest transistor, using a single phosphorus atom. An international team at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne, has described the smallest transistor ever built in the Nature Nanotechnology journal.

Michelle Simmons, who led the team, says [...]

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Smartphone Shipments Overtake Client PCs In 2011 For The First Time Ever

By On February 6, 2012 · 5 Comments

The year 2011 marked a beginning of an important trend in mobile computing.

Smartphone shipments topped PCs for the first time ever last year, by 73 million units, according to figures published by research firm Canalys.

The total global shipments of smart phones for the whole [...]

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MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

By On February 3, 2012 · 7 Comments

Forget dual-core and quad-core processors: A semiconductor company promises to pack 100 cores into a processor that can be used in applications that require hefty computing punch, like video conferencing, wireless base stations and networking. By comparison, Intel’s latest chips are expected to have just eight cores.

With a revolutionary new chip [...]

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