A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.

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An improved method for magnet tracking enables high-speed wireless tracking through various materials.

Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.

Finding could help overturn the prevailing notion that men and women experience angina differently.

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked.

Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors.

System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.