March 2008 News Analysis

Electronic Circuits That Bend and Stretch

Silicon CMOS printed on plastic can do contortions

Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

Random Nanostructure Boosts Thermoelectric Power

Efficiency increase opens the door to many new applications for thermoelectric converters

Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator

Lonnie Johnson has moved on from high-powered squirt guns to a chip that converts heat from the sun—or anything else—into electricity

Climatologists and River Agency Butt Heads About Future of Southwest's Hydroelectric Power

Will hydropower from Hoover Dam end in 2013, 2017, or just keep going?

Q & A With: Actel CEO John East

Actel CEO John East explains how low-power chips can save the world

Carbon Capture Starts From Coal Plant, Advances in Lab

Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials

Water Ship Up: Firm Gets $250 Million to Make Oceangoing Desalination Vessels.

Former Enron exec in charge

New Sensor Shows Electric Nature of Dust Devils

Electric field sensor could help in climate studies and electronics manufacturing too

Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber

Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber

A Nanometer-Scale Etch A Sketch

Scientists use a microscope to write and erase nanowires

A Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Is About More Than Just Battling Google

Yahoo would bring Web 2.0 to Microsoft

The Church of Microsoft

The software maker tries to get ahead of the move to hundreds of processor cores per chip in a deal with the MareNostrum supercomputer

Dust-Devil Dynamo

A New Light Source for EUV Lithography

Extreme ultraviolet laser offers a new route to next-gen chips

Silicon Slivers for Flexible Circuits

Printing CMOS on plastic

Blu-ray's Empty Victory

HD-DVD is beaten, but online movie rentals and the humble hard drive may claim the spoils

Eye Candy

This candy cane-studded satellite is the newest element in the U.S. Global Positioning System