by Miriam Krause Earlier this week I heard a quick piece on NPR’s Marketplace called “75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation,” about how the transistor was “born” exactly 75 years …
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Nano-enabled Recovery of Scarce Metals: From benchtop to startup
by Howard Fairbrother In these days of social distancing, everyday electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops are more crucial than ever. But many of these devices, ubiquitous as they are, contain materials that …
Are transistors getting too small? (How small is too small?)
by Diamond Jonesedited by Emily Caudill Did you know that the world’s first computers filled entire rooms? Now we can carry even more computing power than those early machines in the palm of our hands, …
How do nanomaterials from e-waste transform in water? Computational chemistry helps find the answer
by Joe Bennett edited by Caley Allen The development of nanotechnology has been an exciting route to chemical innovation that has changed the way that we live. Fields as diverse as medicine, water treatment, and …
Explainer: How does an LED work?
by Kurt Jacobson An acronym you have probably seen a whole lot of in recent years is LED, or Light Emitting Diode. Long used only for low-intensity illumination (think of the blinking lights on the …