The touch screen in your phone relies on a very scarce element called indium. But now researchers have used plasma technology to do the same job without the risk that the world will run out.
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Electric cars and smartphones have created growing demand – and volatile prices – for once obscure metals.
For decades, parents have fretted over ‘screen time,’ limiting the hours their children spend looking at a screen. But as times change, so does media… and how parents should (or shouldn’t) regulate it.
It isn’t the size of the screen, but how big it appears on the retina.
Touch screens are everywhere these days but the materials commonly used to make them are not that abundant. So what are the alternatives?
The iPad changed the way we interact with screens, but the physical, 3D touchscreens of the future will change it more radically still.
A recent New York Times article points to a glaring inconsistency between the amount of “screen time” toddlers have using tablets, phones and computers – and the advice of many early years specialists…
Zoos are great places to study animals. The non-human primates among them get the most attention from researchers. Some of them are trained to interact with computers for psychological research. In a new…
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