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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

If the epicenter of the electronics revolution is named after the material that made it possible -- silicon?-- then the birthplace of the...

Dec 22, 20173 min read

Use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, whether food is fresh or a lump is malignant. This has all come a step closer thanks...

Dec 19, 20173 min read

Scientists designed the first subwavelength dielectric resonators for light trapping at the nanoscale that appears to be the simple...

Dec 18, 20173 min read

Metamaterials offer the very real possibility that our most far-fetched fancies could one day become real as rocks. From invisibility...

Nov 7, 20173 min read

Imagine a miniature device that suffuses each room in your house with a different hue of the rainbow--purple for the living room,...

Nov 7, 20173 min read