Researchers from IBM Research, SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanotech Science + Engineering and partners including GlobalFoundries and Samsung have produced advances that will enable the semiconductor industry to pack about twice…
New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed
Random-access memory, or RAM, is where computers like to store the data they’re working on. A processor can retrieve data from RAM tens of thousands of times more rapidly than it can…
Researchers have developed 3D printed jumping soft robots
Traditional industrial robots are rigid — mostly metal — as well as fast, precise, and powerful. Their speed and accuracy come at the cost of complexity and can often pose a danger…
Gene therapy restores hearing in mice with genetic deafness
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital have restored hearing in mice that have a genetic form of deafness. They have published their work online in the journal Science Translational…
Astronomers teach a machine to ‘see’ astronomical images
A team of astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hertfordshire, UK have taught a machine to ‘see’ astronomical images. The technique, which uses a form of artificial intelligence called unsupervised…