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Engineers develop octopus-inspired smart adhesive pads

Researchers have found a way to make building flexible pressure sensors easier - by mimicking the suction cups on octopus's tentacles.

Jul 12th, 2016

Storing information securely in DNA

Compared to digital and analog information storage, DNA is more compact and durable and never becomes obsolete.

Jul 12th, 2016

Silk-based tissue chip provides promise for drug testing and implantable devices

Scientists have created a new type of tissue chip that can better represent human tissues compared with current chips, and can be more widely used for drug testing.

Jul 12th, 2016

A signal boost for molecular microscopy

Researchers have developed a technique, where an optical microcavity is used to enhance Raman scattering signals, and utilized it for molecular diagnostics by combined Raman and absorption imaging.

Jul 12th, 2016

Nano-switches for superconductivity

Scientists have successfully created nano-electronic circuits using a recently discovered two-dimensional superconductor.

Jul 12th, 2016

Veggie juice that illuminates the gut

The medical imaging drink, developed to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal illnesses, is made of concentrated chlorophyll, the pigment that makes spinach green.

Jul 11th, 2016

Nanotechnology 'tattoo' can map emotions and monitor muscle activity

Novel skin electrode is comfortable and has endless commercial and medical applications.

Jul 11th, 2016

Germs add ripples to make 'groovy' graphene

New nanomaterial conducts differently at right angles.

Jul 11th, 2016

Scientists grow atomically thin transistors and circuits

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies, scientists developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick.

Jul 11th, 2016

Physicists couple distant nuclear spins using a single electron

For the first time, researchers have coupled the nuclear spins of distant atoms using just a single electron.

Jul 11th, 2016

Reconfiguring active particles into dynamic patterns

Electrostatic imbalance causes particles to swarm, cluster, and form connected chains.

Jul 11th, 2016

A faster, precise silica coating process for quantum dot nanorods

Materials researchers have fine-tuned a technique that enables them to apply precisely controlled silica coatings to quantum dot nanorods in a day - up to 21 times faster than previous methods.

Jul 11th, 2016

Physicists collide ultracold atoms to observe key quantum principle

Physicists have used steerable 'optical tweezers' to split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and slowly smash them together to directly observe a key theoretical principle of quantum mechanics.