HP Reveals Memristor, The Fourth Passive Circuit Element

A new scientific breakthrough of the first order.

The memristor will enable a new era of nanoscale electronics, scientists say.

By R. Colin Johnson, EETimes
InformationWeek
April 30, 2008 02:17 PM

PORTLAND, Ore. — The long-sought after memristor — the “missing link” in electronic circuit theory — has been invented by Hewlett Packard Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif.

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Garden-Variety Quantum Computers

A fascinating bit of science from our fellow blogger Tinsel Wing, reporting on a recent article in Nature….

Photosynthesis has always posed a conundrum. It’s unreasonably efficient. While materials scientists struggle to get solar cells up to 30% efficiency, green plants everywhere chug happily along, converting photons to bound chemical energy with effiiciencies topping 95%.

How on earth do they manage it?