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The specifics of America’s upcoming exascale supercomputer were reported during a ceremony at Argonne National Laboratory where both Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin were in attendance. This new supercomputer from Department of Energy is going to be built at the Argonne lab by Intel. And …

If you thought that you saw a headline recently that talked about reversing time, don’t panic – you were not seeing things. That was an actual study. If you remember your thermodynamic class in college, then you know that our universe is getting messier and messier by the minute. Just …

Mankind witnessed the birth of the Nuclear Age during the 20th century when the powerful energy of the atom was released. It looks as if this century will be known for the unimaginable power of quantum computers and artificial intelligence. This will eventually occur whenever computers learn to use the …

Recently, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) stated that they have formed a task force for the investigation of a frightening new illness that is afflicting our children. It is called Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and happens to be a polio-type illness. Most experts believe that it is caused by a virus. …

If everything can be worked out, three researchers from Harvard are hoping to start testing their idea of reducing the level of sunshine that the Earth receives. This will hopefully cool off the planet when it starts to heat up as a result of climate change. They are hoping to …

The planet of Venus, which is the second closest planet to our sun, is actually a very scary place for humans. Its atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, and there are clouds that actually rain sulfuric acid. The surface there is just a yellow desert which has a few volcanoes that …

We often hear that postmodernism is portrayed to students as an intellectual demon that is out to rip up truth by the roots and destroy all things that we value and hold dear. Actually, it’s a thinking system that stems from the work of some French thinkers that were around some …

Quantum mechanics is the part of physics that deals with the microscopic world. It has come about due to what could be some very strange things about our physical world. When we are working at the scale of electrons and atoms, the popular laws and equations that we use in classical …

If you stop for a moment in this busy world to take note of the amazing developments in modern medicine, you will be blown away. The world of healthcare and health management is totally different today than it was even 5 years ago. Prospering from the Information Age As with …

Whenever we hear discussion about quantum computers, it seems like we are making a quantum leap into a science-fiction movie. Society is definitely on the brink of achieving computer technology that is defying logic. These days, the transistors installed in computers are about as tiny as our technology will allow. …

Over the past few decades, we have seen countless developments take place in our society. The various fields of science have produced many of these new developments. In just 20 years, we have seen the creation of the Internet and smart phones. Both of these have changed our lives forever. …

Getting educated is supposed to prepare people for our society in the future. Traditionally speaking, this used to mean we only needed to learn a set of specific skills and facts, such as when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and discovered America, or simply learning our multiplication tables. These days, …

Cosmology is the study that handles all the really big questions about the universe, many of them are questions that have been perplexing philosophers for years. Questions like when it all began? And whether or not the universe has always expanded like it is doing now? Those questions have actually …

All through history, we humans have had an amazing desire to mess with chemistry of our brains. We spend lots of our time drinking the waste of sucrose-eating bacteria, smoking leaves from garden-variety weeds, and eating mushrooms because they have chemicals to provide experiences that are bizarre enough to call …

Most of us have assumed that today’s robots would have an artificial intelligence which would be quiet cold and calculated and completely objective in nature. However, it seems that several of human’s imperfections have also been discovered on our machines as well. As it turns out, many of these A.I. …

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is not only the biggest scientific instrument in the world; it is also the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. This makes not only a real risk and danger to itself and its surroundings in Switzerland, but it could also be a danger to Earth …

Several high tech gurus are quite adamant about how chip design is going to evolve in the near future. In order to continue the high tech progression we have been seeing, they tend to agree on one thing in regards to predictions about future computers. “Moore’s Law is dead. Moore’s …

If you thought that one billion operations every second was fast, then what about one million billion operations per second? This could very well happen since laser could make our computers one million times faster than they are now. Getting Ready for Quantum Computers You have to admit that this …

It doesn’t seem to matter how hard all the tree hugger keep trying to kill coal, they are obviously not succeeding at al.  According to a recent report that was published by the Energy Information Administration, and in spite of continual fear-mongering from the Democrats, coal is still a primary source …

Most of us believe that there’s probably some aliens out there, certainly from a statistical standpoint. So why is it that none of us have ever seen any of them? Or at least any evidence of them. That is what we call the Fermi paradox. This question is every astrophysicist’s …