Tech

  1. Tech

    When love-hate is materially good

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

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  2. Tech

    Crawling, nano-sized robots

    Built from DNA, these teeny bots move as directed.

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  3. Tech

    World’s tiniest fridge

    Staying cool, even in the quantum world.

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  4. Chemistry

    The memory of a material

    A popular polymer can remember what shape it was in.

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  5. Tech

    Charged cars that would charge

    Electric vehicles could give power to the grid.

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  6. Tech

    The science of disappearing

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

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  7. Tech

    Supersonic Splash

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

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  8. Tech

    A light delay

    New kind of trap can hold light for 1.5 seconds.

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  9. Tech

    Letting molecules do the work

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

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  10. Tech

    Batteries built by viruses

    Scientists use microbes to create tiny power supplies.

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  11. Tech

    Are cell phones safe?

    About 4 billion people use cell phones, but are they safe?

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  12. Tech

    New eyes to scan the skies

    Two new telescopes will watch for asteroids, map the galaxy.

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