Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have uncovered how to manipulate electrical flow through crystalline ...

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Engineers foresee a hybrid model where single-atom components work alongside today’s circuits, taking advantage of industrial processes that are already in place. Though it may take time to perfect, ...

Silicon is a primordial element, created during the Big Bang or by nuclear fusion during a supernova. It's the eighth most abundant element in the observable Universe, but the third most abundant on ...

Hardware The world's smallest 'ruler' can measure down to a mere 0.1 nm—the width of a single atom or as small as TSMC and Intel would like their transistors to be News ...

I know the CRKD Atom controller looks like the sort of small novelty you might never actually use, but it can be surprisingly useful.

New research boosts our understanding of a likely candidate for next-generation computer chips. Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are advancing semiconductor technology by ...

Matthew Panthani, center, and doctoral students Maharram Jabrayilov, left, and Andrew Tan, observe vials of silicon quantum dots, nanoparticles with properties such as light and color that are ...

In the last century, silicon proved quintessential to the development of modern electronics because of its ability to regulate the flow of electrons: stopping them or allowing them to pass like a ...

Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.