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  • When you have discovered something unusual, trust your instinct and pursue it with determination and enthusiasm, says Renren Deng.

    • Renren Deng
    In the Classroom

  • Spintronic devices that electrically store non-volatile information are promising candidates for high-performance, high-density memories.

    Editorial

  • New non-volatile memory devices store information using different physical mechanisms from those employed in today's memories and could achieve substantial improvements in computing performance and energy efficiency.

    • H.-S. Philip Wong
    • Sayeef Salahuddin
    Commentary

  • Racetrack memory stores digital data in the magnetic domain walls of nanowires. This technology promises to yield information storage devices with high reliability, performance and capacity.

    • Stuart Parkin
    • See-Hun Yang
    Commentary

  • Solid-state memory devices with all-electrical read and write operations might lead to faster, cheaper information storage.

    • Andrew D. Kent
    • Daniel C. Worledge
    Commentary

  • The social and economic issues surrounding nanotechnology should not be forgotten.

    Editorial

  • The search for emerging properties in far-from-equilibrium supramolecular systems is just beginning.

    Editorial

    • Owain Vaughan
    Research Highlights

  • Emerging technologies need to be developed responsibly if their benefits are to outweigh any potential risks. Yet do entrepreneurs really have the luxury of grappling with future consequences from the get-go, asks Andrew D. Maynard.

    • Andrew D. Maynard
    Thesis

  • Should inventors control the fate of their own inventions? In the US, most universities think not. But, as Emmanuel Dumont explains, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City bets otherwise.

    • Emmanuel L. P. Dumont
    In the Classroom