EU-funded researchers are demonstrating revolutionary robotic techniques inspired by plants, featuring a 3D-printed ‘trunk’, ‘leaves’ that sense the environment and ‘roots’ that grow and cha... Read more
The number of transistors in a given space could be increased considerably, along with the performance capacity of microprocessors and memory units. The team from Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’... Read more
The European Commission has announced two Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagships that could each receive funding of a staggering one billion euro (US$1.3 billion) over a period of... Read more
The implications for vastly reduced power consumption and costs are impressive Transistors made of plastic can be controlled with great precision, according to an article in PNAS by Loïg Ke... Read more
The real story is more complicated Every successful modern e-gadget is a combination of components made by many makers. The story of how the transistor became the building block of modern ma... Read more
Marks the beginnings of the field of bionanoprotonics. One of the barriers that stops us from plugging computers into our brains and replacing our eyeballs with cameras is the fact that biol... Read more
When it comes to sending and receiving information, man-made devices utilize negatively-charged particles commonly known as electrons. Biological systems such as human bodies, on the other h... Read more
A fully functional, fast switching and printable transistor in cheap plastic is invented by researcher Lars Herlogsson, Linkoping University in Sweden. All six articles in his doctoral thesi... Read more
Graphene has already brought us the world’s smallest transistor, a triple-mode, single transistor amplifier and a supercapacitor that can store as much energy as a battery while recharging i... Read more