147 news & feature articles results for "nanotechnology sandia national laboratories"

Joint Venture: Silicon Valley forms a consortium of businesses, government and education to promote nanotechnology and biotechnology by uniting the San Francisco Bay Area's many assets.

Posted by Dawn Kawamoto

Posted by Declan McCullagh

The Department of Energy picks Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers, Foundation Capital and ARCH Venture Partners to support entrepreneurs at national labs.

Posted by Elsa Wenzel

The military's Active Denial Technology uses a millimeter wave beam to replace bullets with less lethal heat.

For some American universities, the new frontier lies over the ocean, as other nations looks to gain U.S. expertise.

Posted by Michael Kanellos

Intel last week demonstrated an 80-core chip capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop.

In the 1990s, Intel seriously considered building the world's fastest supercomputer with a rival's processors, but the Pentium Pro arrived in time after all.

Posted by Stephen Shankland

Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.

Posted by Martin LaMonica and Elsa Wenzel

The nation's three nuclear weapons labs shut down classified computer systems for at least a week to beef up network security.

Posted by Kurt Oeler

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Labs have come up with tiny vibrating bars that catch scent of passing molecules, promising a world of "femto" sensors.

Posted by Rupert Goodwins