If you want to print something a few inches tall, extruded plastic is a good medium. But when you need something at the nanometer scale, DNA is a better bet — but who has the time to design and ...

Even with no one in charge, army ants work collectively to build bridges out of their bodies. New research reveals the simple rules that lead to such complex group behavior. Army ants form colonies of ...

Scientists have discovered that a simple genetic modification may result in crops needing up to 25 percent less water than unaltered plants to produce the same yield. An international team led by ...

One of the most pervasive and significant challenges in materials science is the prediction of the equilibrium structure and properties of interfaces in multicomponent systems as processing variables ...

Over the past decade optics researchers have shown mirrors are not necessary to see objects outside the line of sight. That success, though, required exotic lasers firing pulses lasting less than a ...

[Kory] has been writing genetic algorithms for a few months now. This in itself isn’t anything unique or exceptional, except for what he’s getting these genetic algorithms to do. [Kory] has been using ...

Neanderthals vanished from the fossil record roughly 40,000 years ago, but traces of their DNA live on in most people alive ...