AI presents a roadmap to define new materials for any need, with implications in green energy and waste reduction
Designed to sterilize a fly species known to cause extensive crop damage, a new genetic technique replaces the need for harmful pesticides
When people feel sleepy or alert, that sensation is controlled in part by the ebb and flow of a 24-hour rhythm of their body temperature.
The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.
A new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes.
UMass Amherst team engineers biofilm capable of producing long-term, continuous electricity from your sweat
Constructing a tiny robot from DNA and using it to study cell processes invisible to the naked eye…
New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability.
Rice bioscientists use mixed-reality headset, custom software to measure vegetation in the field
Lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Rover Diagnostics team up to develop a low-cost, portable platform that gives RT-PCR results in 23 minutes that match laboratory-based tests
In a university swimming pool, scientists and their underwater cameras watch carefully as a coiled shell is released from a pair of metal tongs.
Industrial drone study poses question of whether emerging technologies are a solution looking for a problem to solve
Wireless devices also use haptic feedback to talk to patient
FaceBit can monitor wearer’s health, sense heart beat through the face
Wireless, fully implantable device gives temporary pacing without requiring removal
First optogenetics-based study of unrestricted social interactions within groups of animals
With FabO, PhD student Dishita Turakhia wants to empower students to learn digital fabrication by making video game objects and characters come alive.
Rice neuroengineers use magnetic fields to activate neurons in fruit flies