NEMS

An optical tweezer being used to stretch a DNA molecule between two polystyrene beads. Representative image. Source: neu.edu

These Really Tiny Bots Make Light of Picking up and Dropping off Drugs

Lakshmi Supriya 30/01/2018

Optimus Prime would be proud.

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Meet the Researcher Who Brought Us One Step Closer to Bionic Brains

Nehmat Kaur 08/10/2016

Sharath Sriram, associate professor at RMIT, just won the...

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa shared the chemistry prize for building mechanical devices like motors and lifts using molecules for parts. This is a representative image. Credit: ucdaviscoe/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

There’s Plenty of Room At the Bottom – the Nobel Chemistry Laureates Put a Nanocar There

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2016

It is little surprise that, walking through the gates...

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Credit: nobelprize.org

Makers of World’s Smallest Machines Win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

The Wire Staff 05/10/2016

These machines are a thousand times smaller than the...