Posts Tagged ‘science’

Bill Gates at TED 2009

In Discussions on 5 February 2009 tagged fundamentals, science, service, visionaries with View Comments

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

In Technologies on 23 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, science, technology with View Comments

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

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Flexible Thin-film Electronics

In Technologies on 22 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, science, technology with View Comments

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.
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In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films are unaffected by [...]