Technology & Engineering Articles

When love-hate is materially good

By Stefi Weisburd / October 13, 2010

Researchers copy nature’s water-loving, water-repelling ways to make smarter stuff

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Crawling, nano-sized robots

By Stephen Ornes / October 5, 2010

Built from DNA, these teeny bots move as directed

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World’s tiniest fridge

By Stephen Ornes / September 20, 2010

Staying cool, even in the quantum world

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The science of disappearing

By Stephen Ornes / February 17, 2010

Invisibility cloaks and other new materials that play with light are in the works

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Supersonic Splash

By Stephen Ornes / February 3, 2010

Coming soon to a pond near you: air moving faster than the speed of sound

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A light delay

By Stephen Ornes / January 12, 2010

New kind of trap can hold light for 1.5 seconds

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Letting molecules do the work

By Douglas Fox / December 11, 2009

Why go to the trouble of carefully building electric circuits when the circuits can build themselves?

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Batteries built by viruses

By Stephen Ornes / October 28, 2009

Scientists use microbes to create tiny power supplies

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Two monkeys see a more colorful world

By Stephen Ornes / September 30, 2009

A genetic experiment changes the way monkeys see the world

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New eyes to scan the skies

By Stephen Ornes / May 21, 2009

Two new telescopes will watch for asteroids, map the galaxy

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