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ScienceCasts: A Display of Lights Above the Storm

Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) are flashes and glows that appear above storms and are results of activity occurring in and below those storms. Researchers are working to better understand lightning and thunderstorms, how they form and develop over time, and why storms produce different TLEs in dif

Our liquid crystal in your 3D television

Displays are not only getting larger, they are also increasingly offering a three-dimensional view. "Reactive mesogens" are now making such displays suitable for the mass market. This class of materials is in demand as a universal optical tool. Merck has substantially expanded its production capacit

OLED: What is behind it

Displays made of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are very attractive. One of their advantages is that they can be inexpensively manufactured using inkjet technology. Companies are aiming to make this process suitable for mass production — for example at AUO in Taiwan, one of the world's leadin

The art of text (rendering)

Typography is the art of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. However, for the neophyte, typography is mostly apprehended as the juxtaposition of characters displayed on the screen while for the expert, typography means typeface, scripts, unicode,