Researchers have designed a recyclable plastic that, like a Lego playset, can be disassembled into its constituent parts at the molecular level, and then reassembled into a different shape, texture, …read more Source:: Science
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Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage
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•Engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. The magnetic microrobots could help …read more Source:: Science
Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
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•Researchers have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow, a first. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. …read more Source:: Science
Engineers demonstrate metamaterials that can solve equations
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•Engineers have designed a metamaterial device that can solve integral equations. The device works by encoding parameters into the properties of an incoming electromagnetic wave; once inside, the device’s unique …read more Source:: Science
Computer scientists create reprogrammable molecular computing system
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•Researchers have designed self-assembling DNA molecules with unprecedented reprogrammability. …read more Source:: Science
Ingestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
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•Engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, quickly swells to the size of a soft, squishy ping-pong ball big enough to stay in the stomach …read more Source:: Science
Engineers 3D print smart objects with ’embodied logic’
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•Using stimuli-responsive materials and geometric principles, engineers have designed structures that have ’embodied logic.’ Through their physical and chemical makeup alone, they are able to determine which of multiple possible …read more Source:: Science
Engineers create an inhalable form of messenger RNA
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•In an advance that could lead to new treatments for lung disease, researchers have now designed an inhalable form of mRNA. This aerosol could be administered directly to the lungs …read more Source:: Science
DNA design that anyone can do
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•Researchers have designed a computer program that allows users to translate any free-form drawing into a two-dimensional, nanoscale structure made of DNA. …read more Source:: Science
Light-controlled polymers can switch between sturdy and soft
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•Researchers have designed a polymer material that can change its structure in response to light, converting from a rigid substance to a softer one that can heal itself when damaged. …read more Source:: Science