
“Particle” Robots Work Together to Perform Tasks
Clusters of decentralized units could be used in search and rescue operations or drug delivery
Clusters of decentralized units could be used in search and rescue operations or drug delivery
Mice that lack these genes do not engage in rapid eye movement sleep
Researchers are intent on decoding body-brain nerve signals to diagnose ailments
The water is tainted, the wreckage is dangerous, and disposing of it will be a prolonged, complex and costly process
In a rethink of personalized medicine, researchers turn to banks of donor-derived stem cells
Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise
Shrugging off massive costs, Japan pursues space-based solar arrays
Radio-frequency identification tags label all kinds of inventoried goods and speed commuters through toll plazas. Now tiny RFID components are being developed with a rather different aim: thwarting counterfeiters...
A machine-listening system that understands three speakers at once
No batteries needed: Pumps driven by heart cells
Brain-machine interface turns robots into gamers
Hiroshi Ishiguro makes perhaps the most humanlike robots around--not particularly to serve as societal helpers but to tell us something about ourselves
Japan builds a ship to drill to the earth's mantle
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