Big Blue is tinkering with a new material that could drastically slash the costs of “drawing” circuits on semiconductors, and the stuff is a close relative to tennis shoe glue.

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

Altering the very fabric of technophilic society, a multinational team of material scientists have created electric circuits and transistors out of cotton fibers.