A special bacterium can function as a kind of miniature natural power plant, researchers say. A species of microbes called Shewanella oneidensis have a unique metabolism in which they interact with ...

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There are many labs at UC Merced where visitors can see students huddled over microscopes and petri dishes, using tweezers to extract and examine different items. But no one at UC Merced has ever seen ...

In her new book, “The Age of Living Machines,” Susan Hockfield argues that we have entered a new era of scientific innovation in America. As a child, Susan Hockfield took apart anything she got her ...

Why build a machine out of plastic or metal when you can build it out of DNA? This question may set off ethical alarm bells, but for the first time, scientists are reporting they’ve done just that. In ...

Scientists have created small, synthetic living machines that self-organize from single cells, move quickly through different environments without the need for muscle cells, can remember their ...

Editor's Note: This article was first published at ScienceNordic. Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing ...

The prevailing narrative is that tech is shaping the future of life. The results from our most advanced labs say the opposite: life, in all its complexity, efficacy and variety, is shaping the future ...

(Nanowerk News) It sounds like something out of the Borg in Star Trek. Nano-sized robots self-assemble to form biological machines that do the work that keeps one alive. And yet something like this ...

It's fitting that a writer, not a scientist, coined the term for the autonomous machines that have gripped the collective imaginations of various cultures for millennia. The word robot comes from ...