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Physicists build muscle for shape-changing, cell-sized robots
An electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell? Is that even possible? Cornell...
Dec 28, 20173 min read


Scientists design bacteria to reflect 'sonar' signals for ultrasound imaging
In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood...
Dec 27, 20174 min read


Drug-delivering nanoparticles seek and destroy elusive cancer stem cells
University of Illinois researchers are sending tiny drug-laden nanoparticles on a mission to seek and destroy cancer stem cells, the...
Nov 28, 20173 min read


Watching atoms move in hybrid perovskite crystals reveals clues to improving solar cells
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has for the first time observed nanoscale changes deep inside hybrid...
Nov 28, 20173 min read


SMART: Facial recognition for molecular structures
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to identify the molecular...
Nov 9, 20173 min read


Wrinkles give heat a jolt in pillared graphene
Pillared graphene would transfer heat better if the theoretical material had a few asymmetric junctions that caused wrinkles, according...
Nov 3, 20173 min read
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