With help from a small transistor, a team of researchers led by Professor Fengnian Xia figured out a way to make a type of ...

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 into your calculator and ...

A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a ...

It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers. Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at ...