Managing Energy with Swarm Logic: REGEN Energy has has come up with a way to reduce energy use by mimicking the self-organizing behavior of bees.

Teleporter sends ions on long-distance journey: University of Maryland researchers have built a teleporter capable of sending the state of ytterbium ions from one side of the lab to the other; something that until now had only been possible with photons.

Innovation: Speech prediction software:
The software could make speech-rocognition software more powerful by increasing the speed and accuracy with which you can dictate long and difficult words and common phrases.

Microscopic bio-robot slaves:Shrinking robots allows them to carry out ever more delicate tasks. But even the smallest built so far are too big to be able to, say, imprint microscopic, or even nanoscale, patterns onto microchips.

Video: Revealing the technology of invisibility:If your superpower of choice would be to make things disappear, you may be surprised to see how close researchers are to making it come true.