Tech

  1. Tech

    Coffee gives robots a grip

    Ground coffee, balloon and vacuum create robotic 'hand'

    By Stephen Ornes
  2. Tech

    Minimachines that move without batteries

    Chemistry powers tiny tools that have big potential.

    By Stephen Ornes
  3. Tech

    When love-hate is materially good

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

    By Stefi Weisburd
  4. Tech

    Crawling, nano-sized robots

    Built from DNA, these teeny bots move as directed.

    By Stephen Ornes
  5. Tech

    World’s tiniest fridge

    Staying cool, even in the quantum world.

    By Stephen Ornes
  6. Chemistry

    The memory of a material

    A popular polymer can remember what shape it was in.

    By Stephen Ornes
  7. Tech

    Charged cars that would charge

    Electric vehicles could give power to the grid.

    By Stephen Ornes
  8. Tech

    The science of disappearing

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  9. Tech

    Supersonic Splash

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  10. Tech

    A light delay

    New kind of trap can hold light for 1.5 seconds.

    By Stephen Ornes
  11. Tech

    Letting molecules do the work

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

    By Douglas Fox
  12. Tech

    Batteries built by viruses

    Scientists use microbes to create tiny power supplies.

    By Stephen Ornes
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