10 Weird Stories About the Higgs Boson
It’s a discovery that’s been decades in the making, but we have it on good authority that 2012 will be the year physicists either confirm or refute the existence of the Higgs boson — the “God particle,” credited with giving mass to elementary particles. But make no mistake — there’s more mystery and misconception surrounding…
Incredible Lion Photos Taken with Camouflaged RC Camera Car, and More from TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger we have robotic cheetahs, solar backpacks, doggie vacation rentals, penny-sized flying robots and more! 1. Robotic Cheetah Smashes Speed Record for Legged Robots By flexing its back, this galloping robot increases its stride and dramatically beats previous speed records for legged robots. Here’s how. 2. ZBoard Crosses a Skateboards with Segways…
HP’s Laser-Powered Chip of the Future
By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light. Codenamed Corona, this laser-powered contraption would handle ten trillion floating points operations a second. In other words, if you put just five of them together, you’d approach the speed of today’s supercomputers. The chip’s 256 cores…