Mighty Electric Fields Found Inside Cells
15 million volts per meter? Ay, carumba. 03.14.2008
The Incredibly Strong See-Through Bicycle
Want a lighter bike? Poke holes in it—the more the better. 03.06.2008
What Is This? A Field of Micro-Volcanoes?
These growths may look like little volcanoes, but they are are nothing of the sort. 03.02.2008
Tiny Robot Walks Using Rat Heart Muscle
Similar bots may one day clear clots in blood vessels. 01.22.2008
55. New Technique Nails Down the Amp
01.09.2008
52. Amazing Battery Made of . . . Paper
01.09.2008
Nanotube Knees and Elbows
Goodbye, metal: Doctors grow new bones. 03.31.2006
Big Hopes for Small Machine
02.20.2006
Building a Better World With Cyborg Bacteria
Building a Better World With Cyborg Bacteria 02.20.2006
The Year in Science: Technology
Carbon nanotubes, lab-grown meat, humanoid robots, and more. 01.08.2006
On a Wet Day You Can See Forever
12.01.2005
Killing Cancer With Red-Hot Nanotubes
Killing Cancer With Red-Hot Nanotubes 11.22.2005
Nanotechnology
Scientists copy nature's tricks to create life, molecule by molecule 10.24.2005
Microelectronics
Stop thinking transistors on chips and start thinking 'up' or 'down' electrons 10.24.2005
Small Time
12.03.2004
Hot Off the Tress
10.01.2004
Secret Garden
10.01.2004
The Atomic Hammer and Chisel
08.02.2004
Technology
01.02.2004
Tiny Tubes Get Tougher
09.01.2003
Computers Enter the Molecular Zone
04.01.2002
Big Cures Come in Small Packages
09.01.2001
Tomorrow's Computer
08.01.2001
A Tiny Motor with a Light Touch
05.01.2001
Future Tech
Sleek carbon nanotubes could be the greatest thing since sliced silicon 02.01.2001
The Smallest Switch
The Smallest Switch 07.01.1999
Molecule Motor
11.01.1998
The Incredible Shrinking Finger Factory
For years engineers have touted the future wonders of microscopic machines. But they have ignored a real-world-size problem: If machine parts dwindle to tiny specks, how will human or even robotic hands ever assemble them? One man's ingenious solution: 03.01.1998
The Year in Science: Technology 1997
Quantum Wires 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Technology 1997
Microrotor 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Chemistry 1997
Nanotanks 01.01.1998
Tiny Tubes
04.01.1997
The Nano-abacus
03.01.1997
Microscopic Mass Production
02.01.1997
Dr. Tinkertoy
DNA is more than the storehouse of life's secrets, it's also a marvelous construction toy. 02.01.1997