Tag: a2016

Electronics has become smaller, smarter and faster. Today, we can pack a computing power matching the performance of a machine which would have weighed hundreds of kilograms 40 years ago, into our pocket. However, state of the art electronics are mainly built on rigid platforms such as silicon and are ill-suited for wearable technology or […]

Small things are difficult to see. That’s why we use microscopes to look at ants, bacteria and human cells. The smaller the object, the more powerful and complicated a microscope must be – but the laws of physics mean we cannot keep going forever. Because light is a wave, it has a certain wavelength, and […]