Australian researchers have developed a new type of DVD technology that can store 212,000 times the amount of data of a standard 4.7GB disc. Australian researchers have developed a new type... Read more
If you thought that the most impressive news in shrinking technology these days was smart watches, think again. Scientists are quietly toiling in their laboratories to create robots that are... Read more
A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for a... Read more
Researchers at ICFO have invented nano-optical tweezers capable of trapping and moving an individual nano-object in 3 dimensions using only the force of light As science and technology go na... Read more
Imagine a solar panel more efficient than today’s best solar panels, but using 10,000 times less material. This is what EPFL researchers expect given recent findings on these tiny filaments... Read more
A French team makes headway in making miniature electronics. Engineers have been shrinking electronic components further and further at a steady rate for the past hundred years—a phenomenon... Read more
New technology could help power portable devices like satellite phones and radios Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to U... Read more
The smallest electrical motor on the planet, at least according to Guinness World Records, is 200 nanometers. Granted, that’s a pretty small motor — after all, a single strand of... Read more