“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere: in rivers and oceans, in the air and the mountains, even in our blood and vital organs. Most ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears on a micrometer scale. This paves the way for the smallest on-chip motors in history, which can fit inside a strand of hair.

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have announced an interesting invention: the “smallest on-chip motor in history.” ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears on a micrometer scale. This paves the way for the ...

Chances are, whatever you’re doing now, you’re coming into contact with microplastics. Whether it’s in the air you breathe, the clothes you’re wearing or what you’re eating or drinking, microplastics ...

A century after Heisenberg formulated his theory, the field has transformed our understanding of the physical world, yet many of its applications remain in development ...

For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world's smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted ...