Liquid metal coolant for computer chips.
With advances in computational speed, thermal management has become a major concern in computer systems. To remove residual heat generated from computer chips or large scale integrated circuit raises, a research team from The Chinese Academy of Sciences Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry in Beijing, headed by Professor...

Down with the transistor: new 'memristor' could radically transform computer chips.
AFTER GOING UNCHALLENGED FOR decades, the transistor's supremacy could come to an end. Researchers have demonstrated a new type of electronic component that could replace transistors as the building blocks of computer chips and lead to faster, more powerful and less energy-thirsty computers. Stanley Williams and his...

Electron superhighway: can graphene overtake silicon as the essential ingredient of computer chips?
"Graphene has always been before our eyes but no one ever tried to look," says Andre Geim, a physicist at the University of Manchester in England. A single-atom-thick, chicken wire web of carbon atoms, graphene forms the layers that stack up to make the graphite found in pencil lead...

'The picture perfect' inventor.
During high school and college internships, Dr. Tejal Desai shadowed doctors treating diabetic patients. Their treatment typically consisted of daily insulin shots along with pinpricks to draw blood for glucose monitoring. Their pain made Desai wonder, can't they get insulin another way? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Years...

Grant will enable ex-Hynix workers to retrain for jobs.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday announced a $1.9 million grant to help 651 laid-off Hynix workers retrain for positions in health care and information technology industries. "Finally, some good news," said Kristina Payne, work force investment manager...

Graphene could replace silicon in computer chips.
Researchers at the University of Manchester have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, which could potentially lead to the development of fast computer chips. The researchers--Professor Andre Geim and Dr Kostya Novoselov from th University's School of Physics and Astronomy--created transistors that...

What's in your medical future? Better health is just around the bend.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Do the high-tech diagnostic tests on TV shows such as House amaze you? Are you awestruck as doctors perform computer-assisted surgery on Grey's Anatomy? See how cutting-edge advances could change real-life medicine. 1 Computer chips will give instant access to your medical history....

State-of-the-art mushroom-growing facility nears completion in San Diego county.
Rising from the valley floor in the rugged terrain of San Marcos, northeast of San Diego, is a tremendous modern building that looks as if it might manufacture computer chips. However, strictly speaking, it's a farm. That is, it's a farm the way a modern mechanized dairy operation resembles...

IBM bores tiny holes in computer chips.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chips with minuscule holes in them can run faster or use less energy, IBM Corp. said in announcing a novel way to create them -- potentially one of the most significant advances in chip manufacturing in years. To create these tiny holes, the...

Risks more than skin deep: technology is getting under our skin--literally--as researchers and medical-device manufacturers turn to computer chips to control their products. But fusing men with machines leaves semiconductor companies with a new "underworld" of risks.
At a Washington press conference this fall, medical researchers showed off a new bionic arm that allows a 26-year-old woman to control her limb as everyone else does--simply by thinking. The thought-controlled prosthesis, which works by connecting human nerves to the computerized arm, is just the latest...