If you put a drop of water on a surface and then tilt the surface slightly, the drop will deform a bit, but not slide. With a steeper tilt, it will slide. This is the kind of thing that scientists find fascinating. The way things slide is very...

For a few decades after molecular manufacturing was first described in detail, a variety of scientists looked for, and thought they found, a variety of reasons why it couldn't work. In the end, it turned out that math trumps intuition - and the math...

We recently received an email referring to a page on CRN's website, and asking the question: "So you're going to monopolize this technology and keep as many people out of the loop as possible?  What are you, capitalists? fascists?" (On reviewing our...

Seeing nanostructures with light is like trying to read Braille by throwing beanbags at the dots and seeing how they bounce off. A few years ago, it was assumed that light simply could not be used to see things smaller than half its wavelength - which...

DNA Origami technology has been used to assemble buckytubes in a crossed structure that can act like a transistor. This is important for several reasons. First, it may eventually provide a new way to build computer chips. There's a massive amount of...