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If you’ve ever attended to one of Edward Tufte’s seminars, you were probably caught off guard when the whitecoats begin moving through the aisles, carrying ancient manuscripts from the likes of Galileo and Playfair that are the original books of what he’s showing on overhead slides.

The Sputnik launch shocked the US policy as well as the US science in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik showed clearly that the US had lost its leadership in science and technology. In 2002, the new crisis followed when Japan introduced its Earth Simulator, the world’s fastest super computer at that time.

Twenty five years ago two budding scientists, Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello, used their expert knowledge, coupled with enthusiasm and a healthy dose of naivety, to develop a groundbreaking method for computer simulation.

Two Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics this Tuesday for “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”, a new material expected to play a large role in electronics.

Fujitsu announced that today it began shipping the computing units for Japan’s Next-Generation Supercomputer, nicknamed the “K” computer.

The hot spot for life on early Earth may have been a very cold place. Tiny pockets and channels that form inside ice can contain and protect replicating molecules, researchers report September 21 in Nature Communications. The paper suggests that life could have sprung from icy slush covering a freshwater lake, rather than a broiling …

SGI will be introducing new class of racks for the consolidated SGI and Rackable Systems server product lines. SGI will not quite be able to cram a petaflops into a rack after all, but will have a more compact design than traditional rack and blade servers offer. Newly merged supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics and hyperscale …