Posts Tagged ‘science’

Bill Gates at TED 2009

Bill Gates talks about two of his latest philanthropic efforts at the annual TED conference going on this week; conquering malaria and making teachers great.

Nature Podcast – More on Flexible Electronics

More discussion on the organic transistors enabling the flexible electronics I wrote about yesterday on the Nature Podcast this week: Download this episode of the Podcast Nature Podcast on iTunes

Flexible Thin-film Electronics

The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology. Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon. … In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films [...]