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Self-powered RNA nanomachine
Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created a nanomachine that can detect RNA...
Jun 7, 20192 min read
A catalytic flying carpet
The "magic carpet" featured in tales from "One Thousand and One Nights" to Disney's "Aladdin" captures the imagination not only because...
Jan 2, 20193 min read
World's smallest tic-tac-toe game board made with DNA
Move over Mona Lisa, here comes tic-tac-toe. It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian,...
Dec 20, 20184 min read
Scientists program proteins to pair exactly
Proteins have now been designed in the lab to zip together in much the same way that DNA molecules zip up to form a double helix. The...
Dec 19, 20182 min read
How swarms of nanomachines could improve the efficiency of any machine
All machines convert one form of energy into another form - for example a car engine turns the energy stored in fuel into motion energy....
Oct 1, 20182 min read
UT engineers develop first method for controlling nanomotors
In a breakthrough for nanotechnology, engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the first method for selecting and...
Sep 19, 20182 min read
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