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World’s Smallest Programmable Robot Fits on a Fingerprint Ridge and Carries Its Own Computer

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Scientists demonstrate low-cost, high-quality lenses for super-resolution microscopy

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Deformable lens enables real-time correction of image aberrations in single-pixel microscopy

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems ...
Physics World

Bidirectional scattering microscope detects micro- and nanoscale structures simultaneously

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

Scientists create robot the size of a grain of salt that can dance and think

The brain of the robot is a tiny electronic computer that features a processor, memory and sensors, making it the first ...
Science Daily

Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa

Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa The study more generally shows how previously ignored fast brain waves define ...