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How PARC sees printers boosting clean tech

April 2, 2008 11:00 AM PDT

Researchers at PARC, famed for its computing innovations, say printers and copiers have a lot to offer on the eco-tech front.
Photos: PARC prints green tech

Harnessing the power of wind and waves

March 24, 2008 4:43 PM PDT

Ireland is in the right place to generate electricity, and a lot of it, out of oceanic surges, but it won't be easy sailing.
Video: Ocean-based renewable energy

The tech of the Irish

March 5, 2008 1:00 AM PST

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos just finished a whirlwind tour of Ireland's tech start-ups and research centers. Here's what he found.

IBM calculates the force it takes to move atoms

February 21, 2008 9:50 PM PST

IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms.

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips

February 20, 2008 12:00 PM PST

The research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations.

Q&A: Explorer prepares for Arctic expedition

January 24, 2008 8:06 PM PST

Pen Hadow, who's preparing for a months-long trek across the Arctic, speaks on climate change, how technology has changed the life of an explorer, and the dangers of swimming with bears.

A tenfold improvement in battery life?

January 15, 2008 7:50 PM PST

Stanford researchers say silicon nanowires could help extend the life of a lithium ion battery for laptops from 4 hours to 40 hours.

Elderly to benefit from 'fuzzy logic' research

January 4, 2008 6:47 PM PST

University of Missouri and U.K.'s De Montfort University team up for computational-intelligence project.

Celebrating 60 years of transistors

December 14, 2007 2:27 PM PST

The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.
Photos: Sixty years of transistors

Is this bike made from spider webs?

November 20, 2007 12:16 AM PST

It's a bike that's made from a few really long strands of carbon fiber. It doesn't weigh much--and it definitely turns heads.
Photos: Weaving Arantix bikes by hand

MIT offers City Car for the masses

March 12, 2008 12:36 AM PDT

A project to improve urban transportation will make its debut this week in Milan.
Images: MIT's stackable electric car

Paradise for tech tinkerers

November 5, 2007 6:22 PM PST

TechShop, an innovative haven for fans of personal fabrication, is bringing its DIY message to cities around the U.S.
Photos: Hobbyists heed TechShop's siren song

Case Western develops superstrong mice

November 2, 2007 9:40 PM PDT

Altering genes and enzymes in mice results in super athletes, the Lance Armstrongs of the rodent world.

Accenture's king of blue-sky thinking

October 30, 2007 9:30 PM PDT

Research director Martin Illsley discusses how utilities could use Flickr and how software development should be like home building.

Department of Energy opens doors to tech entrepreneurs

October 23, 2007 8:00 PM PDT

Under the entrepreneur in residence program, the agency will invite executives to set up shop inside select labs to assess technologies.

At Microsoft, seeking the next billion computer users

October 10, 2007 4:47 PM PDT

Bill Gates gave Will Poole a not-so-simple job: figure out how to connect the rest of the world's inhabitants to computer technology.
Video: Microsoft's MultiPoint for emerging markets

Europe sees rise in R&D spending

October 9, 2007 4:45 PM PDT

EU-based companies increase research and development investments, yet non-EU competitors still take the lead.

EC funds counterterrorism tech research

September 12, 2007 7:44 PM PDT

Forty-four research projects are to be funded, including a technique for video detection of abnormal behavior in crowds.

'Lucky' camera boosts telescope

September 5, 2007 12:34 AM PDT

Astronomers develop a cheap technique to improve ground-based telescope resolution to rival space-based telescopes.
Images: Taking the blur out of heavenly pictures

Visiting San Francisco Bay, in a warehouse

August 28, 2007 12:55 AM PDT

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Bay Model is a wonder of watershed sims, even after computers replaced it.
Photos: A model bay