Lasers on a platter

After radios, tape recorders 'and TV's the Japanese are now working to reduce the size of high-power lasers

Little brother's tale

Cog and Kismet are brothers, who are helping scientists learn a thing or two about artificial intelligence

Delete Microsoft

Green business

Green industry

Electronic bulbs

Chipping in

Forgers beware

It would be almost impossible to fool a new electronic signature verification system

Eco liaisoning

Big Bigon

Robots from Lilliput

Assembled on a chip

Nanolab can be very useful in formulating several compounds cheaply

The coolest one

Researchers develop a refrigerator that works on magnetisation and consumes little electricity

The wonders of nanoelectronics

Infinitesimally small tubes made of carbon can now help create microscopic electronic devices

Portable cure

Software,off the Net

Smart play

What a switch

A bacterium in optical communications

Skilful manipulation

A research group has measured the electric resistance of wires with a single xenon atom and two xenon atoms in series; the results call for some …

Back to the front

After being completely ousted following the advent of transistors, vacuum tubes are again finding a lot of uses in electronic gadgets

Strings of innovation

Researchers are developing signal filters based on the principles of nanoguitars that may find diverse applications in telecommunications

Graphite's schizophrenia

Keeping E-Waste at bay

China imposes restrictions on electronic junk imports

New technique can make flexible electronics self-repairing too

Researchers claim the new technique is novel as it does not require rare materials or the addition of any complex circuitry

Small smaller

A new method to fabricate smallest transistors may revolutionise the chip industry