Four-legged robots that scramble up stairs, stride over rubble, and stream inspection data — no preorder, no lab coat required.

An interdisciplinary research team from two working groups at the Centre for Synthetic Biology at TU Darmstadt has developed the first RNA-based genetic switch that precisely replicates the logical ...

As a kid growing up in China, Shawn Qu might have wanted to immerse himself in history, literature, politics and the study of big ideas, something his math professor parents shuddered to even ...

The future for our computers will literally be at the speed of light. Extremely short light pulses can perform ultrafast logical operations: these are the findings of a study recently published in the ...

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...

Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized cabinets has exploded ...