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First nanoengineered retinal implant could help the blind regain functional vision

Nanowires provide higher resolution than anything achieved by other devices — closer to the dense spacing of photoreceptors in the human retina

Reboot of The Matrix in the works

Yes, please.

Resisting microcracks from metal fatigue

Novel laminated nanostructure gives steel bone-like resistance to fracturing under repeated stress

Future ‘lightwave’ computers could run 100,000 times faster

Engineers shrink atomic-force microscope to dime-sized device

A biocompatible stretchable material for brain implants and ‘electronic skin’

Brain has more than 100 times higher computational capacity than previously thought, say UCLA scientists

Dendrites found to generate nearly 10 times more electrochemical spikes than neuron cell bodies

IBM-led international research team stores one bit of data on a single atom

Could lead to 1,000 times higher storage density in the future

How to control robots with your mind

Making robots useful collaborators at home and at work

Should we use CRISPR to domesticate wild plants, creating ‘biologically inspired organisms’?

“We don’t want to improve nature, we want to benefit from what nature has already created.”

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