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Tiny tech creates smallest shooting game
Researchers use nanoparticles and electron beams to blend virtual fun with real science, opening doors to new tech and medicine.

Tiny antennas hear low-frequency signals
Researchers shrink antennas 10,000 times using laser-trapped nanoparticles for underwater, underground, and space communications.

New technology boosts electronics with frictionless sliding
Scientists use superlubricity, a state with almost no friction, to make faster, more efficient memory for computers.

Printable nanoparticles track vitamins, hormones, and drugs in sweat
Engineers have used printable nanoparticles to make sweat sensors that can track vitamins, hormones, and drugs in real time.

Scientists build powerful energy-storage systems from carbon nanotubes
High energy-density to power sensors and other technologies

DNA origami technology for efficient, sensitive biosensors
New biosensors based on DNA origami nanotechnology might detect when to release drugs based on certain conditions inside the body.

Implanted microchips re-link brain to arms and spinal cord, restoring movement to paralyzed man, an amazing first
Researchers and clinicians map and pinpoint areas for movement and sensation of touch, using chips to target related brain areas

Nanoscale transistors overcome the limits of silicon semiconductor technology
Researchers have built more energy-efficient transistors with nanoscale structures that leverage quantum effects.

Injectable magnetic nanomachines for remote brain stimulation
Tiny magnetic nanodiscs can be injected into the brain where they can stimulate brain cells without using more invasive means to do the same.

Artificial-life nanostructures: medicine of the future?
Viral vaccines (modified and weakened versions of a virus) and artificial life forms to diagnose and treat diseases