A ninth grader from New York City won the most prestigious middle school STEM competition in the nation this week, and he did ...

Once inside, a magnetic field guides and unfolds it at the target site, where it releases medicine in a controlled and steady ...

Young innovators recognized with $100K for STEM research advancing science and tackling global challenges Congratulations to ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them ...

After a major natural disaster, one of the biggest challenges is how to quickly rebuild basic infrastructure. A lot of logistics are required to ship everything needed to build a bridge or house–and, ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science today announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the ...

Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the ...

Plasmonic sensors are extremely promising candidates for label-free single-molecule analysis but require exquisite control over the physical arrangement of metallic nanostructures. Here we employ self ...