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  • Jellyfish
    These buoys can move through the ocean for months with little more than a battery.
  • Bee Toxin
    The microscopic nanodevices are designed to carry the bee toxin safely through the body.
  • Shrinking Chips
    Silicon transistors allow engineers to shrink a transistor to the size of a few atoms.
  • Bird Wings
    Some day shape memory alloys could help build airplane wings that bend.
  • Corkscrew Robot
    Researchers designed a tiny corkscrew tail for this robot.
  • Slow Goldfish
    Seeing the goldfish in glycerin shows how water feels to a tiny robot.
  • Shape Memory Alloys
    These metals "remember" their original shape and revert to it when heated.
  • Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
    Neuroscientists are beginning to understand what happens when a person receives a concussi
  • Life-Saving Non-Newtonian Fluids
    These materials are used in shock absorbers and to make buildings earthquake resistant.
  • Silicon Transistors
    Silicon is a semiconductor, and makes an excellent transistor in a computer chip.
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