Every day another technology breakthrough enables us to make things smaller, lighter or thinner than ever before. Miniaturization holds the key to driving nearly limitless product advancements while ...

When Robert Hooke sought to depict the anatomy of an ant, he put one under a microscope and started to sketch. The ant did not wait for him to finish. Hooke captured another and glued down its feet, ...

David Myers' hands-on microfluidics course lets students build sticker-based devices, enhancing understanding of miniaturization science through active learning. Students in David Myers' class on ...

Nearly five years ago, FDA approved Medtronic's Micra, the first leadless pacemaker to reach the U.S. market. Touted as the world's smallest pacemaker, the Micra represented a major innovative leap in ...

It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. —Samuel Johnson—1763 TODAY, nearly 200 years later, U.S. industry has coined ...

Semiconductor nanowires are quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials that have sparked a surge of interest as one of the most powerful and versatile nanotechnological building blocks with actual or ...