An organic material that can repeatedly change shape without breaking would have many useful applications, such as artificial muscles, pumps or as a switch. Physicists at Radboud University accidentally discovered a material…
A Robot helped Doctors carry out the world’s first remote heart surgery.
A robot helped doctors carry out the world’s first remote heart surgery. From 20 miles away, the surgeon controlled a robotic arm to perform heart surgery on five patients in India. Though…
Shape-shifting structures take the form of a face, antenna
Over the past decade, theorists and experimentalists have found inspiration in nature as they have sought to unravel the physics, build mathematical frameworks, and develop materials and 3D and 4D-printing techniques for…
Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors
Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a fully print-in-place technique for electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin. The advance could enable technologies…
Your Video Can ID You Through Walls
Researchers in the lab of UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi have enabled, for the first time, determining whether the person behind a wall is the same individual who appears in given…