New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin

Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.

Optical tweezers to trap molecules on the nanoscale

Scientists have developed a strategy that enables them to tweeze extremely small objects without exposing them to high-intensity light or heat that can damage a molecule's function.

New advancement in nanophotonics has the potential to improve light-based biosensors

Researchers find path to create nanoscale devices that have much narrower spectral responses.

Memory in a metal, enabled by quantum geometry

Researchers have invented a new data storage method: They make odd numbered layers slide relative to even-number layers in tungsten ditelluride, which is only 3nm thick. The arrangement of these atomic layers represents 0 and 1 for data storage.

'Biohackers' TV series stored on synthetic DNA

Scientists have developed a method that permits the stable storage of large quantities of data on DNA for over 1000 years.

Your paper notebook could become your next tablet

Researchers hope their new technology can help transform paper sheets from a notebook into a music player interface and make food packaging interactive.