Biology is on the verge of getting its versions of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley and other basic machines that enable engineers to build almost any mechanical device, a new analysis has... Read more
What if any person, anywhere in the world, had free access to the machines that power the industrial revolution? That’s the goal of the Global Village Construction Set: empowering everyone t... Read more
An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made... Read more
Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperf... Read more
Deep in the bowels of a sleepy Oxford science park is a small room. There’s just enough space for three people in lab coats to shuffle around simultaneously. This is the heart of Sharp’s res... Read more