The boundary that divides man from machine continues to dissolve — and in more literal ways than you might imagine. Scientists today announced a new class of electronics that can disappear c... Read more
Plastic or silk threads covered with temperature sensors and micro-heaters could keep tabs on infections and provide therapy. Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have... Read more
A new discovery should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. University of Illinois scientist Hao Feng has found a way around the bottleneck that has fru... Read more
A bird-like micro aerial vehicle perching on a human hand Although winged micro air vehicles (MAVs) are pretty impressive in the free flight, one of the skills that has proven difficult for... Read more
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of US researchers. The group has created a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the release of liquid met... Read more
Automatically detect cells within seconds Ordinarily, red blood cells should look like a disc with a medium-sized dimple on the top and bottom. If that dimple is either too large or too smal... Read more
Electricity controls much of the human body: consider the electrical firing of neurons and the current transmitted by the heart. Yet historically the electrodes that have been used in medici... Read more
When a patient has an arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat), cardiologists will often treat the disorder by inserting two tube-like catheters into the patient’s heart. The first catheter... Read more
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created bio-compatible LED arrays that can bend, stretch, and even be implanted under the skin. While this might cause so... Read more