Walking Bio-Bots Powered By Muscle Cells

Walking Bio-Bots Powered By Muscle Cells

Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers…
Tiny Switch Could Be Just Three Atoms Thick

Tiny Switch Could Be Just Three Atoms Thick

Stanford researchers envision a crystal that can form a monolayer three atoms thick. Their computer simulations show that this crystal, molybdenum ditelluride, can act like a switch: its crystal…
Solar Energy: How Do Plastic Solar Panels Work?

Solar Energy: How Do Plastic Solar Panels Work?

We all have some idea how solar panels work by now; a photovoltaic cell gets bombarded by photons from the sun, which knocks loose electrons that flow as electricity, hopefully while wasting as…