Harvard created a wool-like 3D-printable material that can shape shiftResearchers believe it could reduce waste in the fashion industry.By K. Holt, 09.04.2020
Sound-based liquid printing could lead to new designer drugsYou can print droplets for honey, metal and more.By J. Fingas, 09.03.2018
Harvard's robot arm can grab squishy sea animals without hurting themIt could help study jellyfish and octopuses in a safer way.By J. Fingas, 07.21.2018
Modern copyright law can't keep pace with thinking machinesWho owns the work of an artificial intelligence?By A. Tarantola, 12.13.2017
Corkscrew light beams could lead to practical quantum computersSpecially-made surfaces can 'spin' light into strange forms.By J. Fingas, 11.05.2017
Voter registration websites make some records vulnerableThey could be used to manipulate election results. By M. Moon, 09.14.2017
Listening to starlight: Our ongoing search for alien intelligenceIf ET is out there, he's doing a great job hiding from us.By A. Tarantola, 05.25.2017
Soft robot wraps around your heart to help it beatThe device could one day restore heart function without touching your blood.By S. Dent, 01.19.2017
Exotic bird inspires cheaper light-based camouflage design"Structured coloration" could give you an impossible-to-chip paint job.By S. Dent, 11.24.2016
ICYMI: The first autonomous robotic octopus has arrivedWoozits and whatzits will now be 3D-printed sea creatures.By K. Davis, 08.27.2016
ICYMI: Cellphone motor as mic and fuel from sunlightArtificial photosynthesis creates gas from sunlight, CO2 and water.By K. Davis, 06.09.2016
Harvard engineers designed a 'soft wearable robot'The flexible suit is aimed at patients with limited mobility.By A. Dalton, 05.18.2016
Gene editing discovery might treat many more diseasesIt's now possible to reliably modify individual DNA letters.By J. Fingas, 04.21.2016