How Scientifically Plausible Is the ‘Simian Flu’ in Planet of the Apes?
There's a lot for a single virus to do, prompting the inevitable question: How feasible is the Simian Flu from a scientific perspective?
There's a lot for a single virus to do, prompting the inevitable question: How feasible is the Simian Flu from a scientific perspective?
This tiny fella is a wee three microns tall, around half the height of a red blood cell.
Researchers hope to use it for targeted delivery of medication, non-invasive surgery and single-cell manipulation.
It is as if we have invented the atomic scale printing press.
A single atom created out of place when making crucial carbon tubes could bring a space-lift crashing to Earth.
Perfect for powering the teeny-tiny engines in medical nanomachines.
Researchers hope that the technology could usher in a new breed of rechargeable batteries that never need to be replaced.
That's one of the things that makes the place the lab every research scientists dreams of.
Scientists at the University of Surrey have successfully modified ultra-thin graphene sheets to create the most efficient light-absorbent material to date
Biophysicists at Johns Hopkins University think they know the secret to spider silk’s remarkable elasticity: protein threads that serve as stretchy “superstrings.” Read More >>
For a material so small, this could be a very big development.
These new batteries will shut down before they're about to catch fire and explode.
Medical professionals have long dreamed of an ideal drug delivery system, so why jot just use tiny little cannons?
These perfectly straight trenches were dug by molecules of gold. Under just the right conditions, gold will act like a mini-snow blower. Read More >>
She makes them herself, as artist-in resident in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.
A new printing method lets us make images smaller than we’ve ever managed before. Images that are not only a few millionths of an inch wide, they're also in colour. Read More >>
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