Want to know more about the scanning tunneling microscope? In this Atomic Short, an IBM scientist talks about IBM's relationship with the STM, from its invention in the 1980s to present day.
What's the weird noise the scientists hear when they move atoms? In this Atomic Short, IBM scientists talk more about what makes that scratchy sound, and how it helps them move atoms.
A couple weeks ago, President Obama announced a [new research initiative to map the human brain](http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/0...) -- making a significant investment of $100 Million Dollars to ...
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Google sends physics teacher, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, some 500 feet below Switzerland for a Glass-ified tour of the world’s biggest particle accelerator.
Buy it in a store, laser-scan it at home, upload it to the web, print it anywhere. 3D printing is poised for the mainstream, but what happens when one person’s finely hand-crafted designs can be pira...
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The ability to move single atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is crucial to IBM's research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little...
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The planet Mars boasts the most dramatic landscapes in our solar system. Kevin Fong embarks on a grand tour around the planet with scientists, artists and writers who know its special places intimately...
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According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we are going to create synthetic neocortexes in order to extend the power of our own neocortex.
Transcript -- Sometimes people think that emotion and art are sort...
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