IBM Building Next Generation of BlueGene Supercomputers:
IBM and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have signed a new contract to build the next generation of IBM’s BlueGene supercomputers at the famed DOE facility. The first IBM BlueGene supercomputer, called “Dawn,” will have a top processing speed of 500 teraflops. The second IBM system, dubbed “Sequoia,” will offer 20 petaflops of performance and surpass the records Big Blue set when it installed the massive Roadrunner system for the DOE in 2008.

Neurobiologist proposes 'The end of sex as we once knew it':
Differences in the hormones of men and women make it likely that drugs and other treatments for some disorders should be tailored differently for the two sexes, says Rockefeller University's Bruce S. McEwen.

The cockpit of the future:Research scientists have developed a novel car dashboard that functions as a 3-D display and shows velocities, engine speeds or warnings in three dimensions. The display’s design can be chosen individually by the driver.

Super-resolution microscopy takes on a third dimension:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have developed a new interferometry-based imaging technology that produces the best three-dimensional resolution ever seen with an optical microscope, pinpointing fluorescent labels in their images to within 10-20 nanometers.

SKorea to build top-speed information highway: South Korea will install a nationwide 1 Gbps super-broadband infrastructure by 2013 that would enable downloading a feature film in one to two seconds, according to the state-run National Information Society Agency.