A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.
These fibers can be found in every tissue in the human body, underlying every organ’s function and dysfunction.
Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...
Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...
According to the researchers, the shape-shifting ‘active particles’ could potentially function as microrobots for targeted ...
A novel CRISPR defense mechanism, unlike known nucleases, specifically destroys transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNA) that are ...
These are the smallest programmable autonomous robots that I have seen,” said Kevin Chen, an MIT roboticist who wasn’t ...
Opinion

Put Humans in Charge Again

For America to function, we need to put people in charge again. Americans have always been “jealous of authority,” as Alexis de Tocqueville put it. The constitutional debates turned on whether the ...
This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever ...
In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Ben Ginsberg and Bob Bauer. These two longtime and respected ...