Biocompatible material created at Harvard is much tougher than cartilage A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretc... Read more
Ultrathin wafer of silicon and gold focuses telecom wavelengths without distortion Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrath... Read more
Current electronics are too rigid For people with heart conditions and other ailments that require monitoring, life can be complicated by constant hospital visits and time-consuming tests. B... Read more
A holy grail in robotics Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to “feel.” In a paper published online March 26 in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers fr... Read more
Creating surfaces that are self-cleaning and water-repellant Just as a chameleon changes its color to blend in with its environment, Duke University engineers have demonstrated for the first... Read more
That phone would have to be equipped with a bacteria-detecting scanner Soon, you may never have to play Russian roulette with potato salad again. Instead of just hoping that E. coli b... Read more
Piranha Vs. Arapaima It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner? The surpris... Read more
If you want to know exactly what a substance is, your best bet is to use something like a gas chromatographer. The problem is, such machines tend to be large, lab-based and expensive –... Read more
A “MAGIC” switch which restores memory could bring hope to millions of Alzheimer’s sufferers. The electrical implant can bring back long-term memory which has been completely lost and improv... Read more
Today’s television programs are designed to trigger your emotions and your mind through your senses of sound and sight. But what if they could trigger a few more? What if you could sme... Read more
Making use of novel lensless imaging technology, a UCLA engineer has invented the world’s smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope. The self-contained device could radically transform glob... Read more