Supercomputer Build Time-lapse

Volunteer students, professors and friends of the university of Zurich have built a supercomputer for the department of physics. This cluster has a theoretical compute capacity of 1% of the human brain.

Link to the Zbox4 page: link
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Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

Augmented Reality Contact Lenses

High Speed Camera Captures Moving Photons

MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects. 

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html

Project website: http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

Video: Melanie Gonick

Life On Mars? Curiosity Is Sent To Find Out

The rover named Curiosity is on it's way to Mars. It's mission, to find whether life could have ever arisen on Mars, prepare for human exploration of Mars and to study the geology and climate of Mars.

The nuclear powered rover was launched on Saturday the 26th of November at 10:02 EST (15:00 GMT for European readers) by an Atlas V rocket and is scheduled to arrive and land on Mars early August 2012, after covering a distance of 350 million miles (~560 million km). The total cost of the project a mere US$2.5 billion.

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