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August 18/25, 2008
Negative refraction gets visible
Materials
that bend light backward are a major step toward being able to see DNA and
viruses -- objects too small for today’s optical microscopes. [more]
Camera chips get curvy
Compress and stretch the right places in a sheet of silicon and you can make curved camera chips that work like eyes. [more]
Rubber electronics debut
Mix carbon nanotubes into plastic, coat with an electrically conducting rubber, integrate with plastic transistors and you have stretchable electronic devices. [more]
Nanowire printing
Grow nanowires on one surface then transfer them to another and you have the key to combining arrays of different kinds of nanowires to make electronic devices. [more]
Puny plastic patterns
Put the right mix of polymers on a chemically modified surface and you get a patterned material cabable of storing data at a density of 1 terabit per square inch. [more]
Biochemical logic drives microscopic shape shifters
Combine pH-sensitive nanoparticles with enzymes that carry out the chemical equivalent of simple computer logic and you can bring nanoparticles together or move them apart in response to biochemical changes in their environment. [more]
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corollary is that science places power in our hands which can be used
for good or ill. Technology has been abused in this way throughout
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