The key to fresh water: Imitation spleen proteins
The water is safe, of course. It's passed though designer molecules similar to the filters in your liver.
The water is safe, of course. It's passed though designer molecules similar to the filters in your liver.
The Energy Department will use IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer -- the first petaflop computer -- the department announced this week, Reuters reports. A petaflop is 1,000 trillion operations per second.
The coal sludge flood near Harriman, Tennessee, is a reminder that our current "calculations" about energy costs are bogus. When we figure the costs of burning coal to make electricity it includes the cost of mining, moving and burning.
On the final day of the Intel Developer Forum, CTO Justin Rattner made the case for more powerful PCs and servers with tens or even hundreds of processing cores.
There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power.
Three computers stolen from an employee's home in January are just a few of the computers lost by the Lab over the years.
Homeland Security department warns applications from Chinese firm have flaws hackers can exploit to launch attacks on critical infrastructure systems, reports Reuters.
$102 per barrel, does anybody bid one-oh-three? Do I hear one-oh-five?
Venezuela seems determined to make America's alternative energy companies into successful greentech ventures. Today the Venezuelan national oil company "stopped all sales" to Exxon.
The quest to create the perfect scientific timepiece has led to the development of an atomic clock that researchers from JILA claim to be fifty percent more accurate than results reported last year.JILA, is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder.