The inhabitants of the virtual world Second Life now have their own news service. News agency Reuters opened a bureau in the online game on 18 October to report on the lives and business dealings of Second Life’s 900,000 users. News stories, photos and videos will be filed to a dedicated website.
A new type of smart paper for use in electronic displays has been developed. Mangilal Agarwal and his colleagues from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston coated wood microfibres with a conducting polymer film about 20 nanometres thick (Nanotechnology, vol 17, p 5319). The new process uses…
