When you think of supercomputers, you probably think of vast air-controlled rooms crammed full of cabinets and illuminated by banks of flashing LEDs. The first Cray supercomputer, for instance, cost ...

IBM has been showing off what it calls the world’s smallest computer. The computer is 1mm x 1mm, smaller than a grain of fancy salt, and costs less than ten cents to manufacture. The picture shows two ...

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...