The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but…
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Technology refers to the tools, systems, and methods developed through scientific knowledge to solve problems, enhance capabilities, and improve quality of life. It spans a broad range of fields—from computing and biotechnology to renewable energy and materials science—and evolves rapidly through research and innovation. Technology not only shapes how we communicate, work, and travel, but also plays a critical role in advancing science itself, enabling everything from high-powered telescopes to gene-editing tools. As new technologies emerge, they raise important questions about ethics, accessibility, and long-term impacts, making their development and deployment a central focus of scientific and societal discourse.
Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. That’s…
Most synthetic materials, including those in battery electrodes, polymer membranes, and catalysts, degrade over time…
As a result of their two-year joint project, the materials researchers of Tallinn University of…
Creating switchable plasmons in plastics: Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonics. Researchers in the…
Aerospace engineers are developing technology to repair and refuel broken satellites in space. When satellites…
In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a group of…
What is the deadliest weapon of the 20th century? Perhaps you think first of the…
What do bones and 3D-printed buildings have in common? They both have columns and beams…
We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and…
Researchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs. Conditioning is a method made…
Google announced this fall to much fanfare that it had demonstrated “quantum supremacy” – that…
Successful trials of titanium-copper alloys for 3D printing could kickstart a new range of high-performance…
Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial…
Quantum computers can potentially answer questions beyond the capabilities of classical computing – but their…
Model registers “surprise” when objects in a scene do something unexpected, which could be used…
Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study…
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and Nagoya University, Japan, have found a new way to…