It's been a long time since Alice Charton got a good look at a human face. There are plenty of people moving through her world, of course—her husband, her friends, her doctors, her neighbors—but ...

In this system, the implanted computer chip would not just sit on the brain, but become part of the brain. Using a technology Hodak calls the biohybrid model, the chip would be seeded with stem cells ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term ...

Current copper wiring in computer chips struggles to carry electricity efficiently as circuits shrink to the nanoscale, leading to a process that generates heat and limits performance. These materials ...

A recent report by a team of physicists at McGill University concluded that in order to build smaller yet still high-performing computer chips, designers will need to focus on better understanding how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. A 40-year-old Taiwanese company says it’s invented the “world’s first” commercially ...

Scientists show how stem cells process DNA with speed and precision, revealing principles that could lead to programmable DNA-based chips for biotechnology and medicine. (Nanowerk News) In the human ...

Engineers at the University of Delaware have uncovered a way to bridge magnetism and electricity through magnons—tiny waves that carry information without electrical current. These magnetic waves can ...

The key technical milestones achieved as part of Intel’s and AMD’s work on the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group include new performance, security and reliability improvements coming to the x86 instruction ...