31 August 2022
A hacking device can be placed under a table and use electromagnetic signals to mimic human touch on nearby touchscreens. It could then be used to secretly download malware or send money
13 May 2022
A system for trapping sunlight as thermal energy within molecules and then converting it to electricity could be a portable replacement for batteries
3 March 2022
A metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight
24 February 2022
These machines can learn and adapt, and then reproduce to generate better versions of themselves.
18 February 2022
A robot with appendages that mimic the swimming legs of krill could one day be used to study these key marine food sources or explore hard-to-reach places
18 February 2022
Software can analyse millions of static photographs of city streets taken atop cars and construct a realistic 3D model
8 February 2022
The Beatles documentary Get Back used custom-made artificial intelligence to separate instruments, background noise and speech from the original mono recordings
8 February 2022
Most flying robots, whether they use wings or propellers, have motors and gears. Now, researchers have designed a small robot that uses an electric field to increase output
