For the first time, ETH Zurich investigators attained a shape memory effect with objects as small as a few nanometers. This technology can be used to create nanoscale machinery and robotic devices.

Nanomedicine. 2014;9(1):121-134. Table 1. Nonspherical nanoparticles of various shapes fabricated in recent years. Shape Types Materials Methods Ref. 2D polygonal ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, images of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, have been seared in our minds. But the way we picture the virus, typically as a sphere with spikes, is not strictly ...

Scientists are probing how a person's genes direct the shape of their heart, and how that might influence risk for heart trouble The team delineated 11 different shape types for the heart's ventricles ...