The newest generation of microrobots is so small that a single unit can perch on the ridge of a fingerprint and practically ...

A new microchip-sized device could dramatically accelerate the future of quantum computing. It controls laser frequencies ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

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Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was supposed to be surveying the ocean around the Totten Glacier, in eastern Antarctica. To our initial disappointment, it rapidly ...

The first time I visited Japan, I couldn’t help noticing all of the things that it does better than the United States. I rode bullet trains that top out at 200 miles an hour and spotted vending ...

A lone robotic float has just achieved something no human, ship, or sensor array has ever managed. For two-and-a-half years, an Argo float equipped with temperature and salinity sensors drifted ...