Cambridge (ip-192.com): Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, which stands for Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration, is able to analyze a broad spectrum of patterns. It [...]
Photonic chips built on a Silicon platform
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cambridge (ip-192.com): The development of photonic chips, devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their computational tasks, is becoming increasingly realistic. Researchers have filled in a crucial piece of the puzzle that could enable the creation of photonic chips on the standard silicon material that forms the basis for most of [...]
Moving enzymes have a ripple effect on life
November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Oak Ridge (ip-192.com): A petascale supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was necessary to study enzymes moving at the molecular level and perform hundreds of chemical processes that have ripple effects necessary for life. Previously, protein complexes were viewed as static entities with biological function understood in terms of direct interactions, [...]
Evolution: Robot with wings doubles running speed
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Berkeley (ip-192.com): Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, and unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of flight. Even though the wings significantly improved the running performance of the 10-centimeter-long robot or Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod (DASH), they found that [...]
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