Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine itself. A Band-Aid is placed on a skinned knee. Drops go into itchy eyes. A broken arm goes into a cast. B... Read more
UCLA/Caltech team uncovers a new and simple way to learn the structures of small molecules In a new study that one scientist called jaw-dropping, a joint UCLA/Caltech team has shown that it... Read more
Given the right circumstances, water on Mars could hold more oxygen than previously believed, theoretically enough to support aerobic respiration A team led by scientists at Caltech and the... Read more
A joint team from KAIST, Caltech, and Imperial College London, presents a drone with a new algorithm to shepherd birds safely away from airports Researchers made a new algorithm for enabling... Read more
New noninvasive technique for precisely controlling brain circuits could one day help treat neurological conditions. In the maze of our brains, there are various pathways by which neural sig... Read more
New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed robots capable of self-propulsion without using any motors, servos, or po... Read more
New technology may one day allow doctors to image therapeutic bacterial cells in patients In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a... Read more
New design substitutes an array of light receivers for a lens, making cameras thin, light, cheap, and flexible Traditional cameras—even those on the thinnest of cell phones—cannot be truly f... Read more