Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.

Researchers at Tampere University have recently demonstrated that light can be used to precisely reshape soft materials ...

For some time, researchers have assumed that solid materials could gain more useful properties by making their microscopic ...

A key advantage of a programmable thermostat is that you can lower the level of heat or air conditioning when everyone’s away ...

If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it ...

Researchers' new fabrication technique can produce soft, microscopic structures with magnetically activated moving parts.

Microchip Technology has expanded its microcontroller portfolio with new Configurable Logic Block based PIC16F13276 and PIC18 ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are creating intelligent materials that change shape and mechanical properties when exposed to specific light wavelengths. By linking ...

A University of Amsterdam-led study has found that increasing the activity of microscopic components in certain active materials can actually reduce their large-scale mechanical response. Experiments ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are scaling individual molecular machines into ...

New microcontrollers embed CPLD-like logic blocks, enabling deterministic timing, lower latency and reduced system cost for ...

Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny ...