What may be the world's smallest comic strip, "Juana Knits the Planet," can't be read without the aid of a microscope. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist ...

Building snowmen and gingerbread houses are time-honored holiday traditions carried on for decades. Travis Casagrande of McMaster University in Ontario appreciates the holiday hype as … ...

This Microscopic ‘Gingerbread’ House Is Smaller Than a Human Hair Although it doesn’t taste great, the silicon house highlights the capabilities of electron microscopy ...

Scientists study cilia -- microscopic hair. ... Cilia perform many functions on human cells, the researchers noted. They propel egg and sperm cells to make fertilization possible; ...

The world’s smallest human figure, ... he had nanoscientist Stefan Hengsbach direct long-wavelength light through a microscope onto […] Search for: Science. Archaeology; Ask Us Anything; Biology; ...

Physicists at Loughborough University have created a microscopic replica of a platinum violin, so tiny that it fits within the width of a human hair. The incredible feat, unveiled in a press ...

Thus far, the group has been able to scale the chip and antenna down to about 22 microns (0.0009 inch) wide—one fifth the diameter of an average human hair—which is small enough that it could be ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "New material structures bend like microscopic hair." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 August 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 08 / 140806102816 ...

In shaving experiments, engineers closely studied shaving in ultra-fine detail with an electron microscope to see how a razor blade can be damaged as it cuts human hair.

Scientists Create Microgears That Are Slimmer Than a Human Hair. ... but previous attempts have typically relied on bacteria or other microscopic swimmers for power.