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Plants & Animals Sep 8, 2025

Videos show how high-speed tongues of salamanders and chameleons are helping unlock engineering breakthroughs

The tongues of chameleons and salamanders might not seem like the inspiration for tomorrow's engineering breakthroughs, but inside the Deban Laboratory at the University of South Florida, biology and engineering are colliding ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 3, 2025

Sperm bots roll out: Cells coated with magnetic nanoparticles could transform future of fertility

A team of researchers at the TechMed Center of the University of Twente has transformed real sperm cells into tiny, magnetically controlled microrobots. These sperm bots can now be tracked in real time using X-ray imaging, ...

Plants & Animals Jul 8, 2025

Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed seeds far and wide.

Bio & Medicine Jun 23, 2025

Photo-switchable DNA condensates enable remote-controlled microflow systems

Remote-controlled microflow using light-controlled state transitions within DNA condensates has been reported by scientists from the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. By switching between ultraviolet light (UV) and visible ...

Bio & Medicine May 22, 2025

Gene delivery system uses nanostraws and electrical pulses to engineer cancer-fighting immune cells

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a scalable, non-viral technology that efficiently delivers genetic material into human immune cells. The platform, called Nanostraw Electro-actuated ...

Nanophysics Mar 20, 2025

Low-noise transducers can bridge the gap between microwave and optical qubits

In the effort to build superconducting quantum computers, researchers around the world are working to develop electrical circuits that operate in the microwave domain using individual particles of microwave radiation (microwave ...

Plasma Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 10, 2025

Energetic particles could help to control plasma flares at the edge of a tokamak

The development of sustainable energy sources that can satisfy the world energy demand is one of the most challenging scientific problems. Nuclear fusion, the energy source of stars, is a clean and virtually unlimited energy ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 9, 2024

Scalable, multi-functional device lays groundwork for advanced quantum applications

Researchers have demonstrated a new multi-functional device that could help advance the scalability of solid-state color centers, enabling them to be used in larger and more complex quantum computers and networks. As efficient ...

Nanophysics Aug 30, 2024

Advances in optical micronanofiber-enabled tactile sensors and soft actuators

A perfect combination of fiber optics and micro/nanotechnology, optical micro/nanofiber (MNF) is a new type of micro/nano-waveguide structure developed in recent years.

Polymers Aug 22, 2024

Materials scientists develop road map for designing responsive gels with unusual properties

Soft polymers with the combined properties of electrolytes and traditional polymers offer some unique and desirable properties that can be drastically changed on demand.

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