SPHOORTHY TIMES

                                                                

Friday 24th July, 2015

Word for the Day:

  1. enunciate
  1. say or  pronounce clearly.

Origin: 1567: probably alteration of monial mullion

Think about It:

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. 

Vince Lombardi

Top News:

TECHNOLOGY : World’s thinnest light bulb 

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Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone’s group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, an on-chip visible light source using graphene as a filament. They attached small strips of graphene to metal electrodes, suspended the strips above the substrate, and passed a current through the filaments to cause them to heat up.