Comment Re:I think SSD will take off (Score 1) 290
Many SSDs suck at small random writes even though they write throughput can be quite high. But there are exceptions. Linus Torvalds writes about such an exception on its blog here.
Electron Strobe Makes Movies of Atoms 33
holy_calamity writes "Some grainy black and white movies are receiving rave reviews from scientists. They are taken by a new microscope which, thanks to a 'strobing' electron gun, can image movement at sub-nanometer scales. Until now, only still images that smeared out movement were possible at such scales. The press release notes, 'The researchers first blasted the sample with a pulse of heat. The heated carbon atoms began to vibrate in a random, nonsynchronized fashion. Over time, however, the oscillations of the individual atoms became synchronized as different modes of the material locked in phase, emerging to become a heartbeat-like "drumming."' Further details and a few animations are available at Caltech's site."
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