Cool LEDs

Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers.

Disruptiveness index

Small research teams ‘disrupt’ science more radically than large ones.

Costly subcontract issue

Expensive photoresist

Does counting sheep help you sleep?

Sheeplessness

Hangover analysis

Grape or grain

From cats to pigeons - a philosopher's journey

Schrodinger’s pigeon

Fast food

Almost nothing is new, in fact.

PVD Products, Inc. partnership with Northwestern University

Through extensive communication, PVD and Northwestern University have developed a custom system that allowed them to expand and improve their deposition applications. 

k-Space Associates, Inc. narrows BandiT spectrum

The kSA BandiT is now available in a UV/VIS model! - contact us for more details.

Thermo Scientific correlates XPS and Raman

Correlative chemical & structural analysis of 2D materials is easy with the right tool like the Thermo Scientific™ Nexsa™ XPS System. Watch the webinar, it’s around 10 minutes, so perfect for a coffee break!

LIGO to double

A  $35M upgrade to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory will see a doubling of its sensitivity to gravitational waves. 

Taiwan (21.8%) and S. Korea (21.3%) head the global IC wafer capacity in 2018 according to the Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023 report.

Oppy dies on Mars

Rover over, One dead?
Last month NASA declared that after nearly 15 years of successfully trundling around Mars the exploration rover nicknamed "Oppy" had ceased to function. A far less auspicious Martian enterprise may also have come to an end with Mars One Ventures AG entering administration. The proposed reality TV funded project to send people to Mars may sadly linger on through a new investor.

Dangerous tools?
A paper at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting has questioned whether we are producing erroneous science by the use of machine learning algorithms. The concern being that these tools have been developed specifically to find interesting things in datasets and so when they search through huge amounts of data they will inevitably find a pattern. A lack of reproducibility in science may also be a result. Others suggest that it is not the tools but how they are used that produces problems.