Author: Ben Michaels

In this amazing time of dazzling and amazing space exploration, it is funny to think that there are large areas of the earth that still hold many mysteries.  Zealandia is a huge land mass (about two-thirds the size of neighboring Australia) that once was a part of the Gondwana super-continent but broke away from what is now the continent of Australia and sank around 75 million years ago.  Today Zealandia which is estimated to measure 1.9 million sq miles (5m sq km), is almost entirely submerged in the southwest Pacific, except for New Zealand’s North and South Islands, New Caledonia and...

Even a few random atoms out of place can actually affect transistor performance in nanocircuitry. Devices can even end up where the switches fail on the transistors, because of negative threshold voltages caused by the metal atoms perfect lattice becoming disarranged.  Researchers working with nanowires, carbon nanotubes, and other nanostructures in the past decade have struggled to create all but the most elementary circuits. But now a group of scientists led by University of Alberta physicist Robert Wolkow, have created an atomic error editing technique that promises to free up the potent innate properties in the atomic scale. The research team...