Breaking News
Tulsi Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era 'Domestic Terrorism' Strategy
"Levitating Diamonds Reach Impossible Speed":
Talons From The Sky: Coiled Scales On The Ground
If You Could Destroy America: How Would You Do It?
Top Tech News
Scientists reach pivotal breakthrough in quest for limitless energy:
Kawasaki CORLEO Walks Like a Robot, Rides Like a Bike!
World's Smallest Pacemaker is Made for Newborns, Activated by Light, and Requires No Surgery
Barrel-rotor flying car prototype begins flight testing
Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production
BREAKTHROUGH Testing Soon for Starship's Point-to-Point Flights: The Future of Transportation
Molten salt test loop to advance next-gen nuclear reactors
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For The First Time
Watch the Jetson Personal Air Vehicle take flight, then order your own
Microneedles extract harmful cells, deliver drugs into chronic wounds
MIT Scientists Are Using A BIOLOGICAL VIRUS To Make Computers Faster
Using a virus called the M13 bacteriophage to manufacture a specific component may unlock phase-change memory systems, a type of digital storage that would speed up any computer using it, according to research published last month in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials.
The problem these viruses solve comes from the way memory is transferred within a computer. Moving data from high-speed but transient RAM to permanent storage on a hard drive can sometimes take a computer several milliseconds.
Replacing that two-part memory system with a single, catch-all type of storage called phase-change memory would reduce that delay to about ten nanoseconds.
But the existing manufacturing process for phase-change memory reaches temperatures high enough to destroy gallium antimonide, one of the base materials necessary for phase-change memory systems.