Semiconductor chips are the building blocks of modern computation. From smartphones to the vast datacentres powering the ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in ...

In an age where cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) relies on the latest hardware, one group of researchers has challenged that assumption. What if the future of AI isn’t tethered to the ...

For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, U.K., have created a computer system that is powered by algae that harvests energy from the sun. About the size of a AA battery, the cell uses the ...

While the phrase “I built my own computer” might sound impressive to the uninitiated, anyone with an interest in modern computer hardware knows that there’s really not much to it: buy a case, a ...

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast, temporary ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...