the power of goo

…and the Nobel prize in physics for the year 2007 goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg; both discovered “Giant Magnetoresistance,” independently and almost at the same time — Grünberg was a bit faster with filing the patent.

I don’t really have the background to explain this effect in detail, but as much as I have […]

Sometimes it helps to actually read a blog via its web page… found at the bottom (is it my browser or is this the easter egg?) of Carbon based curiosities:

You cannot win. You cannot break even. You cannot stop playing the game.

Written by whom? I know there […]

Carbon Nanotubes, as cool and hype as its name suggests, are rather old and part of human technology (And we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….) — and definitely in the universe per se. Nevertheless the original discovery of non-planar graphite-derived 3D-shaped molecules was a major breakthrough and lead to a nobel prize in chemistry […]