New Software May Enliven Digital Images . new software may enliven digital images. GIFs and JPGs of faces and fabrics may get new renditions worthy of Michelangelo with an experimental software that adds complex, real-life textures to hopelessly flat ...

The microchip of life might enliven computers and electronic devices of the future, say researchers at Purdue University who have devised a way to place strands of DNA on a silicon chip in precise configurations and then to stretch out the strands for easier reading of their encoded information. The microchip of life might enliven computers and electronic devices of the future, say researchers at Purdue University who have devised a way to place strands of DNA on a silicon chip in precise configurations and then to stretch out the strands for easier reading of their encoded information....