Operators are now increasingly being held accountable to ensure delivered water is safe for human consumption, yet little is understood on how to best to manage these living engineered systems.
Fabricating Inflatable Stents using Soft Robotic Technology [Video]
Soft stents that can inflate inside arteries offer an improved alternative to metallic stents.
Hidden Structures: Nanocrystal Inks for Anticounterfeiting Patterns
High-resolution anti-counterfeiting patterns with two-level information encoding are revealed using a one-step, in situ nanocrystal-ink-printing process.
Crosslinking the Way to Stronger Fillings
Designing stronger, more durable materials for tooth fillings and bone repair
Maturation of pre-40S Particles in Yeast and Humans
The intricate nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation steps of pre‐40S particles, the precursors to the small ribosomal subunits, in both yeast and human cells, are reviewed.
Bee Friendly: Network Biology Meets Sociobiology
Looking at the social life structures of bees. String theory for the life sciences.
Hall of Fame Highlight: Zhiyong Tang
Zhiyong Tang on the highlights of his career and science.
Interface Engineering Strategies for Next-Generation Electronics [Video]
The interfaces of complex oxides may be tuned to create novel multifunctionalities for next-generation electronic devices.
Viruses as Controllable Nanodevices
Physical, chemical, and synthetic virology work together to reprogram viruses as controllable nanodevices.
Peel-Good Water Purification
Orange peels for water purification – a zesty new approach.