Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any ...

CU Boulder researchers have built high-performing optical microresonators, opening the door for new sensor technologies. At its simplest form, a microresonator is a tiny device that can trap light and ...

Scientists have observed a new microscopic mechanism enabling precise control of the magneto-optical properties of excitons ...

Tiny particles are opening big doors for medicine, materials science, and even environmental cleanup. Across the world, scientists are racing to understand how these microscopic swimmers behave, ...

A surprisingly small detail in the skin may play an outsized role in how young skin looks and how well it repairs scars. Researchers say the clue is a microscopic structure found in humans, pigs, and ...

One day microscopic robots could be crawling through your body, clearing out disease or delivering drugs. And now we’re one step closer to that future, as scientists from Cornell University have ...

This itty-bitty camera can spot big problems. Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed a camera so ultracompact that it’s the size of a minuscule grain of ...