Scientists at Rutgers University–Newark have developed a first-of-its-kind RNA-based nanotechnology that assembles itself inside living human cells and can be programmed to stop propagation of harmful ...

This starts at the chemical level: scientists can design a material’s structure to define how it reacts, binds, or transforms under specific conditions. Surface functionalization adds further ...

Scientists have developed a programmable “molecular robot” — a sub-microscopic molecular machine made of synthetic DNA that moves between track locations separated by 6nm. The robot, a short strand of ...

How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive ...

A key question that remains in biology and biophysics is how three-dimensional tissue shapes emerge during animal development. Research teams have now found a mechanism by which tissues can be ...

Q: I want to get a key fob (I only have one) for my car. Can an aftermarket key fob be programmed by anyone other than the dealer? The dealer tells me it will cost $400 or slightly more. A: It really ...

Forward-looking: The billions of transistors hidden within a single CPU are manufactured to execute just one specific function. A team of Viennese scientists, however, aims to introduce ...

Time. Do not be always on -- Place. Live in person -- Choice. You may always choose none of the above -- Complexity. You are never completely right -- Scale. One size does not fit all -- Identity. Be ...

[Editor's Note: The following guest post is by Marc Weidenbaum.] In an age of digital downloads, virtual instruments, and social-media fandom, everybody, musicians especially, must learn how ...