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.

A new RNA-based method creates programmable, droplet-like organelles inside cells, enabling precise control over their ...

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 ...

A team reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials created a "living plastic" using two bacterial strains that worked together ...

A project at Stanford University has developed a non-invasive method of delivering light to desired locations within the body. Published in Nature Materials the findings provide a ...

Degradable Living Plastics Programmed by Engineered Microbial Consortia" ACS Applied Polymer MaterialsMany plastic products ...

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

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 ...

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

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