Vaporizing matter is no problem for this Laser

Scientists created record-breaking 10-petawatt laser Whoa! What can one do with a 10PW laser? Well, other than making someone or something disappear, it is mostly used for research purposes. Scientists in three (soon to be four) countries use mega-powerful lasers to study photonuclear properties, cancer medicine, radiation research, and more. Physicists in Romania have successfully tested a 10-petawatt...

Researchers build the world’s first 1,000-core processor

Researchers with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis have developed an energy-efficient KiloCore processor that, as the name implies, features 1,000 processing cores. Built by IBM, the KiloCore has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors. Although built on a dated 32-nanometer manfuacturing...

Accidental breakthrough could lead to batteries that last 400 times longer

The problem with modern rechargeable lithium battery technology – well, one of the many problems – is that over time, the materials on the inside become corroded which lessens their ability to hold a charge. While working to find a solid-state replacement for lithium, researchers at UC Irvine inadvertently stumbled upon a breakthrough that could change...

Researchers develop ultra-fast light-based microprocessor Researchers have for the first time successfully demonstrated a microprocessor that uses optical connections instead of traditional electrical wires to transmit data. Technology Review reports that researchers from MIT, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Colorado Boulder developed a prototype chip featuring more than 70 million transistors and...

Scientists develop printing technique that hides an image behind another

https://youtu.be/EffML7ZPhzo Scientists from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a unique printing technique in which two images are printed in the same location. At any given time, one image is hidden and the other is viewable. To see the "hidden" image, you simply rotate the photo, thus hiding the original image and...