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Engineers at Case Western Reserve University have designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate under temperatures of up to 600 degrees Celsius... Read More »
Enjoy this week’s wrap up of trending medical news!
Rats paralyzed due to spinal cord injury walking again thanks to new therapy
Rats that... Read More »
Superconductivity promises huge energy savings. Although they play important roles in science, industry, and medicine, conventional superconductors must be maintained ... Read More »
The two biggest challenges facing the development of photovoltaic solar cells are cost and efficiency. Solar cells are still relatively expensive to fabricate, mostly ... Read More »
In the fast-moving world of computer memory, DRAM and Flash are the current best options, but neither is perfect. The solution is ReRAM, technology... Read More »
Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since its discovery in 2004. Just one atom thick, the famed material has several remarkable properties. It... Read More »
Electrons, the basis of information transfer in modern circuits, are not alone in their ability to form logic gates. Klas Tybrandt, researcher at Linkoping... Read More »
Just one decade ago, sequencing an entire human genome cost upwards of $10 million and took about three years to complete. Now, several companies are racing to... Read More »
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Ann ConkleHard to believe that the price has fallen so far, so fast. It's very easy to envision the day when genome sequencing is part of routine health care.
May 29, 2012
The rich get richer,
Recent stories in tech seem to center around a widening of the gap between successful and unsuccessful companies. Nowhere is this story more... Read More »
A group at the Nanyang Technological Institute has demonstrated new wireless technology capable of transmitting data 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth -- nearly 2... Read More »
The three axis accelerometers that currently inhabit our smartphones typically measure values on the order of a couple times the acceleration due to gravity -- about... Read More »
The process of building computer chips over the past several decades has been driven by a focus on Moore’s Law, which calls for improving the speed and number... Read More »
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Leonard PrietSeems to me this is just a question of managing uncertainties -- isn't that something that we do in science all the time?
May 23, 2012
In the wake of Samsung's Exynos quad-core processors, now powering their increasingly successful line of Galaxy smartphones, the semiconductor leader has started... Read More »
Block co-polymers are materials that are made of several different monomer components, and can fabricated to have unique properties as a result. Block co-polymers... Read More »
A new study has found that small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow on the semiconductor gallium arsenide. This nano-effect is ... Read More »
Twenty-eight proves tough-for-business...
Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Gallium Nitride (GaN) has recently been touted as a highly effectively replacement for silicon in high power transistor applications, but overheating of these devices ... Read More »
Electronic devices have gotten smaller, cheaper, and more powerful with remarkable consistency over the past few decades. However, that progress has begun to stall... Read More »
The Power Conversion -- Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference kicks off today in Nuremburg, Germany, and touts record-setting attendance for a power electronics... Read More »
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP) has executed substantial moves in the semiconductors industry over the past few weeks, most recently with their $939 million... Read More »