Martin Davis (1928–2023)

As I have mentioned more than once on this blog, I served my apprenticeship as a historian of science working for ten years in a major research project into the external history of formal or mathematical logic. During the semester, we held a weekly research seminar in which one or more of the members of […]

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Warming gold nanofilm can stop glasses fogging-up

A transparent antifogging coating for glasses and other lenses that works by selectively absorbing the infrared wavelengths in sunlight has been developed by researchers in Switzerland. The material, which heats the surface to prevent condensation, is readily scalable and durable and could solve many issues that plague current antifogging technologies. Fogging occurs when warm, moist […]

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