A team at UC Berkeley has developed the world’s smallest wireless flying robot, inspired by bumblebees. Weighing just 21 ...

Imagine if a doctor could remotely do a non-invasive, highly precise medical procedure on her patients using a tiny robot, or ...

A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance ...

which are expensive and use electricity. Meanwhile, the tokamak, another promising machine, is less stable. Scientists had ...

Robotic tools are too big for ‘keyhole’ brain surgery – but a new miniature technology using magnets could change all that.

Scientists in Spain have created tiny flower-shaped structures that can boost magnetic fields in a very small area. These ...

In an exciting breakthrough, scientists have found a new way to use heat and laser light to control magnetism in ultra-thin ...

So [Andrew Fentem]’s magnetic hockey project certainly pushes all our buttons, as it’s a game superficially similar to an air hockey table in which a magnetic puck is accelerated by a handheld ...

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers ...

We have seen quite a few DIY joystick designs that use Hall effect sensors ... voltage that varies in proportion to the presence of a magnetic field, which is typically provided by a nearby ...