For nearly 50 years, microscopic robotics has seemed just out of reach, inspired by science fiction like Fantastic Voyage.

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving ...

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light.

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has reportedly developed what they suggest is the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots.

The label on the pill bottles found in warehouses in nine states said Biktarvy or Descovy, both antiviral HIV medications ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports a University of Utah associate discovered a rare 1973 UNIX V4 software tape, believed to be the ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new microscope that reveals, for the first time, how plants store a 'memory' of winter ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

The rise in Earth's overall temperatures paired with fertilizer runoff is making for ideal growing conditions. Good for ...