Graphene is a thin sheet of carbon atoms that bond to their neighbours to form a chicken-wire-type lattice precisely one atom thick. That doesn’t sound too spectacular, but it has scientists in a tizzy.
There are far, far more important costs that today’s devastation in Japan will levy than economic ones. But the reality is that Japan is integral to the manufacturing and distribution of a huge portion of the world’s electronics.
Feeling groggy all day? It could be because you’re one of the staggeirng 95 per cent of Americans using an electronic device within an hour of going to bed, says the National Sleep Foundation. The consequence? Suppressed sleep hormones, interrupted drowsing and fatigue. Great. [Reuters via Register]
Nanotechnology! Wonder science, right? Will solve all of life’s problems, eventually. Yeah…probably not, but it could make palladium easier to come by in the future. One problem, potentially solved!
In this week’s Gizmodo University: Discover Electronics, we will investigate the practical and theoretical fundamentals of electronics. This lesson, the first of four in the series, is presented in conjunction with Sparkle Labs.
