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(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore’s Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. It’s why electronics – from smart phones to flat screens, from MP4 players to movie cameras, from tablets to supercomputers – grow ever more varied, powerful, and compact, but also ever less expensive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore’s Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. It’s why electronics – from smart phones to flat screens, from MP4 players to movie cameras, from tablets to supercomputers – grow ever more varied, powerful, and compact, but also ever less expensive. Whether the trend can continue until it runs up against immutable laws of nature, like the finite size of an atom, depends on how far scientists and technicians can push electronic technologies down into the nanoworld with better tools for using short-wavelength light.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore’s Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. It’s why electronics – from smart phones to flat screens, from MP4 players to movie cameras, from tablets to supercomputers – grow ever more varied, powerful, and compact, but also ever less expensive.

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A video series in which Inc.com editors explore the most important topics you need to know to run your small business now. This week: How upcoming patent law changes could impact you. In the next few months, recent legislation will transform America's patent system.

Introducing TrendWatch, a weekly video series in which Inc.com editors explore the most important topics you need to know to run your small business now. Welcome to TrendWatch , a new weekly video series in which Inc.com editors examine the latest small-business regulations, economic forecasts, fundraising opportunities, innovative ideas, and product launches in conversations with small-business experts, owners, advisors, professors, and economists.

Nationwide, fewer women are developing lung cancer.

Forget Paula Deen’s Lady’s Brunch Burger , KFC's Double Down , and the fact that New York's Governors Island was renamed Pig Island last weekend: There is a new wave of diners who are heading in a more restrained direction food-wise, whether that means being more mindful of their food's origins or going all-out gluten-free or vegan. "In general, a lot more people care about where their food comes from," says Dan Kluger, chef at the James Beard Award-winning (and perpetually packed) ABC Kitchen in New York City

Twitter might boast more than 200 million users, with over 70% tweeting from outside the U.S., but Sina Weibo is fast catching up, with 140 million users and 10 million new accounts added each month. The latter service, often referred to as the "Twitter of China" (much like the Facebook copycats ) is considered by many to be a knockoff of the microblogging platform. Yet while there are many similarities between Twitter and Sina Weibo, the services are actually being used in very different ways,

A major government report says that the rate of excess weight and obesity among children ages two to five have doubled since the 1980s. Michelle Miller takes a look at what's being done to stop the trend.

Whether you use them or not, hashtags are prevalent on Twitter. Smart businesses can use hashtags to their advantage to boost their brands on Twitter.

Ice loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new study. If the trend continues, ice sheets could become the dominant contributor to sea level rise sooner than scientists had predicted, concludes the research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters