In the Lab

IN THE LAB

By studying how water striders do it, researchers have designed a robot that uses surface tension to walk on water.

Silver coated nanoparticles wrapped in sheets of graphene could be the secret to preventing BPA contamination, scientists say.

Using carbon nanotubes, scientists have developed wires amenable to stretching, twisting and flexing.

Troubled by a recent study linking cats to glaucoma? Don't panic, ophthalmologists say.

Using a genome-wide screening approach, scientists from Singapore identified novel regulators of human stem cells differentiation.

A ‘virtual reality’ experiment done on flies has shown that their brains register the difference between their own actions and external stimuli.

For the first time, chromosomal defects responsible for hemophilia have been corrected in patient-specific iPSCs using CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases.

When nano-sized gold spheres self-assemble into more complex 3D structures, they turn from their characteristic brick red to black.

Less dominant roosters only crow after the most dominant male has decided to announce the break of dawn, researchers say.

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