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A recently passed bill in the US could help raise the profile of the physical sciences.

Intel's Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner, talked to Nature Materials about the impressive advances in microprocessors and their applications.

Integrated electronics has come a long way since the invention of the transistor in 1947 and the fabrication of the first integrated circuit in 1958. Given feature sizes as small as a few nanometres, what will the future hold for integrated electronics?

The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences offers a successful template for other disciplines to teach science in Africa.

Even a small effort can have a big impact on science education in Africa. Why don't you try?

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) was established only 21 years ago. Nature Materials spoke to POSTECH's outgoing president, Chan-Mo Park, about this success story as well as his personal engagement with North Korea.

Over the past few decades, South Korea has made impressive economic and scientific progress. Can the country maintain this fast pace?

To answer this question, Nature Materials interviewed Ohjoon Kwon, head of the research laboratories of POSCO, Korea's largest steel producer, and the third-largest in the world.

Scientific research in Korean universities has developed rapidly in the past twenty years. However, the quality still lags behind other advanced countries, and Korea faces many challenges in building premier research universities.

Twenty years ago, J. Georg Bednorz shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Karl Alexander Müller. Nature Materials asked him about the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity and its implication for science and technology.