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Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...

With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As...

On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that...

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way...

New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions. MIT and Harvard...

Chinese scientists have produced a herd of bioengineered cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk --...

The robotic exoskeleton eLegs could be a game changer for spinal cord injury rehabilitation

  As engineers begin to build tiny aircraft for tasks such as military-related surveillance and post-disaster search, they are turning...

A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The...

Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better...

  NASA's Human Research Program is all about risk reduction, finding ways to counter fatigue and mitigate radiation damage, among...

Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have mapped hundreds of thousands of DNA code variations spread across the...

Evan Hendrick, a mechanical engineering senior, demonstrated a bionic glove during the College of Engineering's Student Design Project Showcase held...

TULANE (US)—Researchers have designed SafeSnip, an inexpensive device that could prevent millions of infection-related neonatal deaths in developing countries. The...

Researchers have developed device to detect microscopic signs of cancer, bombs and impure water. Both cancer cells and the chemicals...

Biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to...

Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that...