Tiny ‘xenobots’ assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up.
CRISPR cleans up DNA origami
Researchers use CRISPR-Cas12a as a DNA shredder to clean up and mobilize parts of DNA-origami structures.
Exploring the “dark side” of a single-crystal complex oxide thin film
Analysis reveals never-before-seen details about a type of thin film being explored for advanced microelectronics.
Researchers Build a Particle Accelerator That Fits On a Chip
Just as desktop PCs acquired some of the functions performed by room-sized mainframes, a Stanford team has prototyped a silicon chip that packs some of the punch delivered by current particle accelerators.
New Insights Into Old Chemical Concepts Using DFT
Recent progress in density functional theory provide new insights for chemical concepts like electrophilicity, nucleophilicity, regioselectivity, stereoselectivity, and more.
Magnetic Particles Enable Reversible Bending, Twisting, Grabbing Materials
Programmable smart materials, which can be reversibly controlled through magnetically-induced heating and actuation.
Improving Image Recognition to Accelerate Machine Learning
By combining two types of memory arrays, researchers can accelerate image recognition for more efficient machine learning.
Advancing Cross‐point Memory Technology [Video]
Researchers design a high-performance threshold switching selector based on silver nanodots.
Electronics that Imitate Life: A Sensing Robotic Hand
Intrinsic or tightly integrated sensing, actuation, and computation embedded into 3D structures could enable a new generation of truly smart and complex systems, such as robots that have human-like dexterity.
Teaching Machines to Think Like Humans
An artificial neural network based entirely on memristors is developed.