2014 top MEMS players ranking: Rising of the first MEMS titan.

With an impressive 20 percent growth in MEMS revenue compared to 2013, and sales revenues of more than $1.2B, Robert Bosch GmbH is the clear #1.

Droning on about the internet

Facebook is moving ahead with plans to test a version of its solar-powered drone this summer, a step in its efforts to beam Internet access to billions of people without it today

Chameleon materials

Engineers create chameleon-like artificial 'skin' that shifts color on demand

Waste not

Researchers at Yale University have assessed the “criticality” of all the metallic elements, indicating which might become more difficult to source in the coming years. Factors contributing to criticality include high geopolitical concentration of primary production (over 90% of the rare Earth metals comes from China); lack of available substitutes and political instability (a major source of tantalum is the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo). Another report has highlighted sewage as a source for extracting and recycling metals.

"Goldilocks Material" Could change Spintronics

Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have created a new class of magnetic materials based on MnRuGa alloys that exhibit no net magnetic moment, but full spin polarization.

The science of Discworld

Five things Discworld will teach you about science

Today's greetings

Pi Day Greetings

The world’s most ethical companies?

The World's Most Ethical Companies® designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business "ethically" and translate those words into action - See more here.

The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave

EPFL scientists have taken a photograph of light behaving both as a wave and a particle. Whilst a group at Bar-Ilan University have observed the point at which classical and quantum photonic behaviours converge.

Only 17% ?!

17 Percent of Employees Would Rather Watch Paint Dry Than Attend Meetings. Try these alternatives instead.

Sensor technology developments

Sensor technology has developed somewhat since the days of taking canaries down coal mines to detect toxic gases. However it seems that we can still learn from the natural world. In 373 BC, historians recorded that animals, including rats, snakes and weasels, deserted the Greek city of Helice in droves just days before an earthquake devastated the place. A recent study has found significant changes in animal behaviour immediately before an earthquake, possibly linked with airborne positive ions created by the electric charges generated by stressed subterranean rocks grinding together. As Albert Einstein said: Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.